Wireless USB MAC supports high speeds

Artimi is demonstrating its WiMedia Wireless USB media access controller (MAC) at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

Artimi is demonstrating its WiMedia Wireless USB media access controller (MAC) at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

This first public demonstration of the company's RTMI-150 system-on-a-chip solution includes live bulk data transfer and synchronisation between end user devices and a PC server, illustrating the maturity and flexibility of the Artimi solution.

The low power consumption of the RTMI-150 makes it ideally suited for use in power sensitive devices such as digital still cameras, camcorders, MP3 players and mobile cellular phones.

The RTMI-150 provides support for high speed data transfer between such consumer devices and PCs, with raw data transfer rates of up to 480Mbit/s, scaleable to higher rates as the WiMedia standards evolve.

The RTMI-150 supports operation in both low band (3-5GHz) and high band (6-9GHz) frequencies, making it suitable for use in Certified Wireless USB and next generation high speed Bluetooth over ultrawideband (UWB) products throughout the world.

The demonstration at the Intel Developer Forum focuses on Artimi's MAC solution, which works with certified WiMedia physical layer (PHY) solutions.

Artimi has already completed preliminary interoperability testing with Intel's Peripheral Development Kit based on the Certified Wireless USB specification using Intel's emulated PHY and several third party WiMedia PHYs.

Colin Macnab, Artimi's Chief Executive Officer, comments: "This is an exciting time for us".

"We have already demonstrated our MAC solution to several potential customers and technology partners around the world, and we are very pleased to be able to showcase its performance in a more public arena".

"Specifically, the fact that we use a live demonstration proving the real performance and robustness of our solution has been greatly appreciated by our target customers".

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