Radio devices are approved in the USA and Japan

The Ripcord product family from Staccato Communications has earned official FCC certification and Japan Telec regulatory approval.

The Ripcord product family from Staccato Communications has earned official FCC certification and Japan Telec regulatory approval.

By delivering FCC and Telec standards-compliant devices, Staccato is able to advance the state of reference design kits with customer engagements and accelerate customer time to market in both the USA and Japan.

As Ripcord approaches the production cycle and prepares to undergo additional certification processes, it remains as proof that the single-chip, all-CMOS solution is not only possible, but offers the most competitive offering due to the inherent performance and cost advantages of a design based on only one chip.

Staccato offers the Ripcord family of products based on Certified Wireless USB and the WiMedia Alliance's UWB Common Radio Platform.

The Ripcord 3500 series is implemented using leading 110nm digital CMOS process technology and is offered as a complete system-in-package (SiP) and wafer chip-scale package (WCSP).

With this product offering, Staccato can deliver low-cost advantages to customers compared with other multiple chip solutions.

It also enables Staccato to offer the smallest form factor and reduce customers' time to market.

"Being certified in Japan is a significant step as the Japanese emission mask is very stringent compared with the FCC regulations", says Roberto Aiello, cofounder and Chief Technical Officer at Staccato Communications.

"Staccato remains heavily involved in worldwide regulatory development".

"After earning both FCC and Telec approval, we are now focused on our engaugement with the certification approval processes for the WiMedia Platform and Certified Wireless USB, both of which are in the process of approval".

"Staccato's leadership in single-chip, all-CMOS, complete solutions based on the WiMedia Common Radio Platform for Certified Wireless USB, remains strong, as evidence by these recent domestic and international regulatory approvals".

"The company is committed to providing our customers the best solutions at the most competitive price in the industry", says Marty Colombatto, Chairman and CEO for Staccato Communications.

"As we look ahead, we recognise the continued need to provide customers next-generation solutions with the same benefits in price, power consumption and form-factor afforded by single-chip CMOS".

"By offering these critical advantages in smaller design process technologies such as 65nm, Staccato will not only speed up the product life cycle, but allow customers to seamlessly meet the crucial demands of the ever-changing and rapidly growing markets of Certified Wireless USB and Bluetooth 3.0".

Staccato's 110nm highly-integrated digital CMOS silicon includes RF, digital baseband, media access controller (MAC), memory, 32bit RISC processor, encryption engine and various I/Os, including USB 2.0 Host, USB 2.0 Device and SDIO 1.1 Device.

The deployment of the Ripcord solution will empower the personal computer, consumer electronic and mobile device industries with high-speed wireless personal area network (WPAN) solutions optimised for cost, power consumption and form-factor.

(WPAN) solutions optimised for cost, power consumption and form factor.

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