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News Release from: Kilopass Technology | Subject: Kilopass XPM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 April 2008
Embedded memory enables wireless home
control
XPM technology allows Zensys to contain its costs and add new features to its SoCs.
Zensys, the developer of the Z-Wave wireless home control standard, has used Kilopass XPM one-time-programmable embedded memory technology in its broadband wireless remote home control applications Zensys is using XPM memory to store network and application data
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Aug 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Zensys picked Kilopass for its wireless mesh network (a communications network made up of radio nodes) application because XPM uses a small amount of die area, is easy to implement and has low manufacturing costs.
Zensys is using XPM memory to store a secure serial number that identifies each radio node in the network.
The Z-Wave mesh network and the RF system-on-chip technology for broadband wireless home control applications bring affordable, reliable and easy-to -deploy wireless home control to every aspect of daily life - the home environment, consumer electronics healthcare, and energy management - to create a truly "connected home".
Z-Wave's interoperable wireless mesh networking technology allows a wide array of devices around the home to communicate, including lighting, appliances, HVAC, entertainment centres and security systems.
"Kilopass' XPM technology allows us to contain our costs and add new features to our SoCs", says Niels Thybo Johansen, Vice President R and D, Zensys.
"We are pleased that XPM technology was selected for an advanced product technology such as the Zensys wireless home control application", adds Charles Ng, Kilopass' VP of Worldwide Sales.
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