Fujitsu, Staccato Partner to Offer All-CMOS Single-Chip Wireless USB

January 5, 2005

Fujitsu Limited and Staccato Communications, Inc. today announced a partnership under which they will provide all-CMOS, single-chip wireless universal serial bus (USB) and ultra-wideband (UWB) solutions for the global marketplace.
CMOS single-chip wireless USB products are compliant with Multiband OFDM Alliance (MBOA) UWB specifications. Sampling of these chips from Fujitsu and Staccato Communications is scheduled for 2005, moving the companies closer to volume production and commercialization of these chips, targeting the consumer PC, digital home appliance, and mobile phone markets.

"Integration is the key to competitive products. Having chosen Fujitsu's advanced process CMOS technology from the outset, Staccato Communications is leading the industry with single-chip wireless USB solutions," said Joji Murakami, Group Senior Vice President, LSI Group of Fujitsu Limited. "Fujitsu aims to achieve further integration of wireless USB functionality into ASIC system-on-chips (SoC), utilizing its design capabilities. By partnering with Staccato Communications, our goal is to provide customers with optimal wireless USB/UWB technology-based solutions."

Fujitsu will offer its SoC/ASSP together with Staccato Communication's UWB products as part of its next-generation wireless USB/UWB technology-based solutions to its customers, enabling them to develop state-of-the-art products with wireless USB capabilities.

"Perhaps one of the best decisions we have made at Staccato was our choice of Fujitsu's process technology," said Roberto Aiello, founder and CTO, Staccato Communications. "For digital-centric designs like wireless USB, Fujitsu's process technologies and a rich set of libraries and IPs have tremendous advantages, and the real benefit is in how well Fujitsu's process technology and libraries are optimized to handle high-speed RF circuit designs embedded along with the digital."

Fujitsu and Staccato Communications will leverage the partnership to deliver to their customers value-added, next-generation wireless USB/UWB technology-based solutions that comply with MBOA UWB specifications to mutually grow and promote the companies' business in the wireless USB/UWB global markets.


Rank not rated yet
Tags

Related Stories
Relevant PhysicsForums posts

More news stories

First Google hire leaving for online academy

The first person hired by Google's founders is leaving the Internet giant to devote himself to an innovative online education website called Khan Academy.

Technology / Internet

created 3 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FBI file: Steve Jobs was considered for govt post

(AP) -- FBI background interviews of some people who knew Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reveal a man driven by power and alienating some of the people who worked with him.

Technology / Business

created 3 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NY attorney general ends lawsuit against Intel

(AP) -- Intel Corp. is paying $6.5 million as part of a deal to terminate an antitrust lawsuit filed against the chip maker by the New York attorney general's office.

Technology / Business

created 3 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New integrated building model may improve fish farming operations

Today's "locavore" movement with its emphasis on eating more locally-produced food is a natural fit for fruits and vegetables in nearly every region, but few entrepreneurs have dared to apply the concept to ...

Technology / Engineering

created 3 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

LinkedIn's 4Q earnings strong, revenue doubles

(AP) -- LinkedIn reported a strong fourth quarter as the online professional-networking service added 14 million members. Its net income and revenue beat Wall Street's expectations.

Technology / Business

created 3 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


'Dark plasmons' transmit energy

Microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic energy that starts as light and propagates via "dark plasmons," according to researchers at Rice University.

Ultraviolet protection molecule in plants yields its secrets

Lying around in the sun all day is hazardous not just for humans but also for plants, which have no means of escape. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun can damage proteins and DNA inside cells, leading ...

Hydrogen from acidic water: Researchers develop potential low cost alternative to platinum for splitting water

A technique for creating a new molecule that structurally and chemically replicates the active part of the widely used industrial catalyst molybdenite has been developed by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley ...

Anyone can learn to be more inventive, cognitive researcher says

There will always be a wild and unpredictable quality to creativity and invention, says Anthony McCaffrey, a cognitive psychology researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, because an "Aha moment" is rare and ...

FDA-approved drug rapidly clears amyloid from the brain, reverses Alzheimer's symptoms in mice

Neuroscientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have made a dramatic breakthrough in their efforts to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. The researchers' findings, published in the journal Science, show t ...

New method makes culture of complex tissue possible in any lab

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new method for making scaffolds for culturing tissue in three-dimensional arrangements that mimic those in the body. This advance, published online in ...