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News Release from: Staccato Communications | Subject: Ripcord SC3500
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 November 2007
CMOS product receives wireless
certification
Staccato's latest certification signifies the production readiness of the Ripcord SC3500 product family for peripheral devices
Staccato Communications' Ripcord SC3500 is the first single-chip, all-CMOS product family to achieve Wireless USB certification from the USB Implementers Forum Ensuring seamless interoperability with multiple vendors, Staccato's latest certification signifies the production readiness of the Ripcord SC3500 product family for peripheral devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ripcord is billed as the industry's first true single-chip all-CMOS solution based on Certified Wireless USB.
The Ripcord SC3500 has already achieved WiMedia Platform, US FCC and Japanese TELEC approval.
Certification from the USB-IF permits Staccato to use of the Wireless USB logo to highlight product compliance and interoperability to the Wireless USB specification.
"We are pleased to see companies like Staccato expanding upon the certified building block solutions available for manufacturers wanting to incorporate Wireless USB into product designs", said Jeff Ravencraft, USB-IF President.
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"Delivering solutions like single-chip CMOS will support the broad adoption of Wireless USB products".
"The impact of Staccato's achievement is significant for customers developing Certified Wireless USB products".
"This certification milestone, combined with the benefits of Staccato's low-cost, low-power and small form-factor offering, offers the opportunity to accelerate market adoption and can provide Staccato with a strong position as the leading provider of single-chip CMOS products for Certified Wireless USB", said Brian O'Rourke, Principal Analyst at In-Stat.
"We decided early on that standards-based, single-chip CMOS with multiprotocol support was the right approach to drive heavy volume into PC, consumer electronics and mobile phone products", said Marty Colombatto, Chairman and CEO at Staccato Communications.
"Staccato is committed to this strategy as we continue to innovate with new products on the horizon that will help drive this very exciting technology into the mainstream".
Staccato offers the Ripcord family of products based on the Wireless USB specification and the WiMedia Alliance's UWB Common Radio Platform.
Staccato's Ripcord SC3500 series is implemented using 110nm digital CMOS process technology and is offered as a wafer chip-scale package (WCSP).
The SC3500 product series enables Staccato to deliver a solution to customers that offers low system cost, simple integration and small form factor.
Staccato's Wireless USB products are built upon the Protocol Independent Kernel (PIK) to enable simultaneous support for Wireless USB, Bluetooth v3.0, WiMedia IP and new mobile services including wireless video and personal area social networking (PASN).
Staccato's 110nm highly-integrated digital CMOS silicon includes RF, digital baseband, media access controller (MAC), memory, a 32bit RISC Processor, an encryption engine and I/O including a USB 2.0 host, a USB 2.0 device and an SDIO 1.1 Device.
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