Staccato Communications’ Ripcord Family of Single-Chip Products Earns Wireless USB Certification from USB Implementers Forum
Staccato’s Ripcord™ SC3500 is the industry’s first certified single-chip; Staccato is enabling Wireless USB for the masses with affordable, interoperable, low power and small form-factor solutions.
San Diego California – November 14, 2007 Staccato Communications, an Ultra Wideband (UWB) wireless technology pioneer and Wireless USB leader, today announced that its 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 and demonstrates Staccato’s commitment to delivering standards-compliant products for volume markets.
The Ripcord SC3500 has already achieved the following milestones: WiMedia Platform Certification, U.S. FCC Certification, and Japanese TELEC Approval. Certification from the USB-IF permits Staccato the use of the Wireless USB logo to highlight product compliance and interoperability to the Wireless USB specification, ensuring a positive end-user experience.
“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. “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 multi-protocol 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 leading 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 when compared to competing multi-chip solutions
Staccato’s Wireless USB products are built upon the Protocol Independent Kernel™ (PIK) to enable simultaneous support for Wireless USB, High-Speed Bluetooth®, 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, 32-bit RISC Processor, Encryption Engine and various I/O including USB 2.0 Host, USB 2.0 Device and SDIO 1.1 Device. The deployment of Staccato’s Ripcord solution will empower the personal computer, consumer electronic and mobile device industries with high-speed wireless personal area network (WPAN) solutions optimized for cost, power consumption and form-factor.
About Staccato Communications’ Products
Staccato’s Ripcord product family is comprised of single-chip, all-CMOS solutions offered as a Wafer Chip-Scale Package (WCSP) using leading 110nm digital CMOS process technology. Based on the Wireless USB specification from the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) and a WiMedia Certified UWB Common Radio Platform, Ripcord’s high-level of integration minimizes design risk, lowers system cost and accelerates customers’ time-to-market by consolidating all hardware and software components necessary to implement a solution based on the Wireless USB specification.
About Staccato Communications
Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Staccato Communications is an Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology pioneer with applications expertise in Wireless USB, High-Speed Bluetooth® and Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity. The fabless semiconductor company serves the personal computing, mobile phone and consumer electronics industries with small form factor, single-chip, all-CMOS high-speed wireless solutions. Staccato’s WiMedia Platform Certified products include PHY, MAC, drivers, application software, development kits and reference designs. The Team Staccato Partner Program enables total solutions through alliances with industry leaders throughout the value chain. For more information, please visit www.staccatocommunications.com.
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