Product category:
Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: National Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 September 2001
Big Flash baseband aids cordless
versatility
National Semiconductor's new SC14408 baseband controller has been selected as a key component of the Siemens Gigaset 4000 comfort handset.
National Semiconductor's new SC14408 baseband controller has been selected as a key component of the Siemens Gigaset 4000 comfort handset The SC14408 is the market's first single-chip DCT baseband IC with embedded Flash designed in 0.25-micron CMOS
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The SC14408 combines 3Mbit of embedded flash with a powerful CompactRISC core, allowing Siemens' new handsets to have the highest degree of software flexibility available.
Siemens has introduced its handset into the two most rapidly growing DCT markets in the world: DECT 1.9GHz in Europe and WDCT in the ISM 2.4GHz band in the USA.
"The advantage of using National's new SC14408 baseband is that it enables Siemens to build handsets for the US and European markets based on one platform", said Rainer Nagel, Vice President Product Marketing Cordless Products of Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group.
"The 3Mbit on-chip Flash can support multiple language display menus and it offers the possibility of walkie talkie and SMS options - new features in cordless phones".
The SC14408 is the only product on the market that has all the latest digital cordless telephone features embedded on one chip, such as programmable radio interface, arm-length hands free, power management and data support.
National also improved the direct memory access for DECT data applications in products such as the latest information appliances.
The SC14408, available in 80-lead PQFP, is priced at $12.19 each in 1k quantities.
Samples are available now and the SC14408 is in full production.
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