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News Release from: Micrel | Subject: Micrel MICRF011YM QwikRadio IC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 October 2007
IC chosen for pool safety system
The Micrel MICRF011YM QwikRadio IC solution is extremely easy to design-in, minimises design and production costs and improves time to market.
RF Labs has made the Micrel MICRF011YM QwikRadio IC solution its device of choice for inclusion into its RF Design for PoolGuard's home pool safety alarm, the Poolguard PGRM-2 The IC, part of Micrel's QwikRadio family aimed at a wide variety of remote wireless applications, is a true single-chip radio receiver
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Dec 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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It is extremely easy to design-in, minimises design and production costs and improves time to market.
"We are pleased to have chosen Micrel's RF solutions for use in this mission-critical application" David Zima, President of RF Labs, said.
"Our goal is to provide our customers with cost-effective, highly reliable solutions and Micrel's fully integrated IC not only allowed us to eliminate extraneous parts and keep costs down, but the simple drop-in design enabled us to decrease time to market for this award-winning, life saving device".
In the Poolguard PGRM-2, an RF link provides the life-saving ability to monitor a swimming pool from as far away as 61m.
Included in the RF solution are an RF transmitter and Micrel's QwikRadio receiver.
Typically, a receiver would consist of an array of tuned parts, but costs were kept to a minimum with the use of Micrel's fully-integrated, single-chip solution.
A transmitter is mechanically activated to transmit a coded signal to the Micrel receiver.
Micrel's MICRF011 receives the RF signal and converts it to a digital signal.
The decoder then interrupts the digital signal to see if a violation has occurred, for example someone entering the pool.
"Micrel is honoured to have one of its RF solutions used by both RF Labs and Poolguard in such a valuable consumer device", stated John Lee, Director of Mixed-Signal and RF products, Micrel.
"The importance of saving lives cannot be over-emphasised and the use of Micrel's RF solution in such a device has given Micrel one of the company's proudest moments".
"RF Labs is a key RF design partner for Micrel and we look forward to working closely with them in the future on other exciting projects".
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