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News Release from: Staccato Communications
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 June 2006
Partner programme gathers UWB ecosystem
Staccato Communications has unveiled its Team Staccato Partner Programme with 14 initial partners.
Staccato Communications has unveiled its Team Staccato Partner Programme with 14 initial partners Leveraging partnerships with industry leaders throughout the value chain, the programme enables Staccato to provide its customers with total solutions for WiMedia-based UWB and Certified Wireless USB
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The first phase of the programme includes collaborative efforts with test equipment, UWB filter and antenna component, and software driver companies.
The second phase of the programme will involve test houses, production test partners, design services and module partners.
This announcement comes on the heels of the customer engagements Staccato unveiled earlier this month with AboCom, Cameo and Cellink and production test engagement for ODM and OEM customers with Asian Information Technology (AIT).
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"Staccato's close collaboration with industry-leading partners and their commitment to serve as significant resources is a true validation of Staccato's total solutions approach", said Mark Bowles, founder and Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Marketing for Staccato Communications.
"Customers are choosing Staccato's Ripcord solution because it greatly speeds time to market while significantly minimising both design risk and cost".
"We believe the best way to stimulate the worldwide appetite for WiMedia-based Certified Wireless USB and Bluetooth 3.0 applications are to provide complete solutions supported by an array of excellent partners".
"Within every large semiconductor market there is a thriving ecosystem under development that supports every aspect of the value chain from software, production testing and packaging to certification, external components, reference designs, and design services".
"The creation of Team Staccato is proof that the UWB and Certified Wireless USB market continues to gain strength and influence".
"Staccato has done an excellent job in collecting the support of such a strong and diverse set of partners around their Ripcord products, which ultimately drove the evolution of the Team Staccato Partner Programme", said Chris Kissel, industry analyst from In-Stat.
Staccato works closely with a full range of RF and protocol test equipment vendors, including those involved with lab equipment and automated test equipment.
Through the Team Staccato Partner Programme, Staccato has engaged leading protocol analyser companies, including Catalyst Enterprises, Ellisys and LeCroy Corporation.
These relationships were established in conjunction with the development of Staccato's Ripcord Host Wire Adapter (HWA), Device Wire Adapter (DWA) and native Certified Wireless USB products, which will enter production in the second half of 2006.
Team Staccato RF test equipment partners include Anritsu, LeCroy Corporation and Tektronix.
With an inaugural group of seven Team Staccato UWB component partner companies, Staccato is ideally positioned to provide its customers with solutions that have been fully optimised for performance and cost.
Staccato is actively working with UWB component manufacturers of bandpass filters, diplexers, triplexers and antennas to support multiple bands of the WiMedia UWB radio.
In addition, many of the resulting component products support Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for combined Certified Wireless USB solutions.
Staccato's Ripcord is the industry's first true single-chip, all-CMOS product implemented in a complete system-in-package (SiP).
Ripcord's high-level of integration minimises design risk, lowers system cost and accelerates customers' time to market by consolidating all hardware and software components needed for commercial implementation.
In most product designs, customers only need voltage regulators and an external antenna for a complete Certified Wireless USB node.
Staccato's Ripcord Development Kit (SC3111) currently ships with antenna samples from seven different companies, including FDK Corporation, Fujitsu Components America, Fractus, Murata, Omron Corporation, Taiyo Yuden and TDK Corporation.
This allows customers to make a quick evaluation of available UWB antenna options.
In addition to samples, full technical specifications are supplied for each antenna making the designer's job easier.
Another key element of Staccato's successful total product solution includes the availability of software including drivers.
Although Staccato develops and supplies a significant portion of software for Certified Wireless USB, it also works with software operating system companies.
This juxtaposition also leverages strong third party partners including iAnywhere and Stonestreet One, who supply software and drivers for a variety of embedded platforms, such as Windows Mobility, embedded Linux, micro-Itron and more, delivering additional solutions in support of Staccato's customers' needs.
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