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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 February 2004
Momentum increases towards UWB
technology
Texas Instruments has joined the WiMedia Alliance as a Promoter Member and will serve on the organisation's Board of Directors.
Texas Instruments has joined the WiMedia Alliance as a Promoter Member and will serve on the organisation's Board of Directors The WiMedia Alliance, one of the industry's leading consortia for ultrawideband (UWB) technology, develops specifications and certification programs that define interoperability and use models, as well as fairness policies for UWB-based wireless networking
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"TI is pleased to join WiMedia and its efforts to ensure interoperability among UWB products - a key issue in ensuring rapid deployment of this technology", said Yoram Solomon, General Manager, Consumer Networking Business Unit, TI.
"We believe consumers will be the ultimate beneficiaries of this type of collaboration".
This latest announcement signifies increasing momentum for ensuring rapid adoption and deployment of UWB technology.
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Last month, TI announced its support for the MultiBand OFDM Alliance's (MBOA) plans to formalise into a Special Interest Group (SIG) supporting growth of the emerging ultrawideband (UWB) market.
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.
The formalisation, announced by the MBOA at a press conference in Tokyo, came 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).
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, which 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.
In December 2003, Texas Instruments also announced its plans to offer royalty-free licences under TI essential patents directed toward the final IEEE802.15.3a standard, pending ratification of the MBOA's proposal as the new IEEE802.15.3a standard for high speed WPANs.
Moving forward, TI's royalty-free offering will enable consumer electronics and PC manufacturers to quickly deliver a variety of high performance, interoperable wireless applications, such as streaming video from set top boxes to HDTVs.
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