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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 January 2004
Alliance to form UWB special interest
group
Texas Instruments is supporting the MultiBand OFDM Alliance's plans to formalise into a special interest group supporting growth of the emerging ultrawideband market.
Texas Instruments is supporting the MultiBand OFDM Alliance's (MBOA) plans to formalise into a special interest group (SIG) supporting growth of the emerging ultrawideband (UWB) market The formalisation, announced by the MBOA this week in Tokyo, comes on the heels of the latest IEEE802.15.3a (UWB) meetings which saw increasing support for the MBOA's UWB proposal for high-speed wireless personal area networks (WPANs)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Formal creation of the SIG is expected by the end of first quarter 2004.
The group plans to publish a UWB 1.0 standard in May 2004.
The group also plans to submit a proposal to the IEEE802.15.3a working group.
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"The market for UWB technology is quickly developing.
In order to ensure rapid adoption and interoperability, it is crucial to have support for the technology throughout the value chain", said Yoram Solomon, General Manager of TI's consumer networking business unit.
"With more than 50 leading companies supporting the MBOA approach, it is clear that the OFDM-based approach to UWB is positioned to become the standard for UWB worldwide".
The MBOA now has more than 50 members, including many influential companies in the consumer electronics, personal computing, home entertainment, mobile phone, digital imaging and semiconductor spaces.
This group of vendors is committed to creating a new class of compelling products incorporating high-speed wireless connectivity, allowing consumers to seamlessly transfer their digital content between a broad range of end products.
UWB is a wireless technology for transmitting data at very high rates while using very low power.
UWB is ideally suited for wireless communications with high quality of service demands, such as streaming high-definition video from a set top box to a television.
TI's technology is designed to comply with all existing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements.
End users are expected to benefit from the deployment of high-rate TI-based UWB products as soon as early 2005.
TI's OFDM-based proposal emerged as the principal UWB technology candidate from the March 2003 IEEE802.15.3a Task Group meeting due to the performance it provides in demanding applications such as wireless transmission of multiple high-definition video streams, in even the most difficult real-world environments.
Key strengths also included having the best range of competing systems, and its ability to coexist with current and future wireless services.
These are all key requirements for many consumer electronic applications.
The TI proposal has become the basis for the merged proposal sponsored by the MBOA.
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