Wisair Collaborates with Leading Analyzer Companies to Further Growth of UWB and Certified Wireless USB Markets
Ellisys and LeCroy Leveraging Wisair’s UWB Chips for Analyzer Products
CAMPBELL, Calif., March 22, 2006 – Wisair®, a leading provider of WiMedia Ultra-Wideband (UWB) chipset solutions, based on Certified Wireless USB, today announced that its UWB physical layer (PHY) chips are being utilized by leading protocol analyzer providers, Ellisys and LeCroy.
“At Wisair, our commitment to the UWB industry is twofold. Our mission has grown from charging ahead to deliver the industry’s first WiMedia-based chipsets and solutions to one where we are also focused on helping the industry more readily manufacture and adopt UWB and Certified Wireless USB technology,” noted Amir Freund, vice president of marketing at Wisair. “We understand that analyzers are a valuable component in the process of delivering interoperable and reliable end products to the market, and by collaborating with Ellisys and LeCroy we are ensuring that design engineers can measure, analyze and verify their UWB and wireless USB product developments.”
“The excellent RF characteristics of Wisair's WiMedia-based chipset make it the best choice for a robust protocol analyzer,” said Mario Pasquali, co-founder of Ellisys. "Wisair has strongly supported Ellisys since early 2004 and helped Ellisys to be the pioneer company in UWB and WUSB protocol analysis product offerings. This successful collaboration is an important step toward the rapid growth of Certified Wireless USB, and highlights the strong commitment of Wisair and Ellisys in this promising market.”
Wisair’s relationship with Ellisys is reciprocal as Wisair has been using Ellisys' Wireless USB analyzer since its early release. Freund further noted, “Ellisys' analyzer greatly contributed toward helping our engineers develop our UWB and wireless USB protocol stack for current and next generation silicon.”
James Wright, marketing director at LeCroy PSG, commented, “Wisair played an important role in helping us deliver our UWBTracer ™ system, enabling the capture of over-the-air traffic within the wireless USB network in a non-intrusive way. Wisair gives us the capabilities to provide the powerful capture triggering and filtering that manufacturers require in a solution for their verification needs.”
Designers and manufacturers interested in implementing Certified Wireless USB in their upcoming product developments should contact Wisair for information on UWB chipsets, reference designs, and verification tools.
About Wisair
Wisair is a leading provider of WiMedia Ultra-Wideband (UWB) chipset solutions, based on Certified Wireless USB, for consumer electronics, PC peripherals, and mobile devices. Leveraging the management teams’ decades of wireless communications product development expertise, Wisair is the first company to deliver fully-functional WiMedia-based UWB chipsets and small form-factor reference designs. Today, the fabless semiconductor company continues to focus on delivering low-cost, low-power, and high bit-rate wireless connectivity solutions. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.wisair.com.
About Ellisys
Founded in 2000, Ellisys is a Test & Measurement Company developing Protocol Analysis Solutions for USB, Wireless USB and ultra wideband. Ellisys' products help hardware, firmware, software and test engineers to streamline the life cycle of their subsystems. Its product range covers the most challenging requirements, from simple and cost-effective tools to high-end and fully-featured equipment. For more information, please visit www.ellisys.com.
About LeCroy
LeCroy Corporation is a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions, creating advanced instruments that drive product innovation by quickly measuring, analyzing, and verifying complex electronic signals. The company offers high-performance oscilloscopes, serial data analyzers, and global communications protocol test solutions used by design engineers in the computer and semiconductor, data storage device, automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace markets. LeCroy’s 40-year heritage of technical innovation is the foundation for its recognized leadership in “WaveShape Analysis”—capturing, viewing, and measuring the high-speed signals that drive today's information and communications technologies. LeCroy is headquartered in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Company information is available at http://www.lecroy.com.
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Wisair is a registered trademark of Wisair. Ellisys is a trademark of Ellisys. LeCroy is a registered trademark, and UWBTracer is a trademark of LeCroy. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.