Wisair PHY Receives Registration at Recent WiMedia Certification Testing Event
CAMPBELL, Calif., November 29, 2006 – Wisair, a leading provider of WiMedia Ultra Wideband (UWB) chipset solutions, today announced that its PHY implementation has been designated as a Registered PHY in the WiMedia® integrators list after successfully passing and adhering to the Alliance’s Common Radio Platform specification. Wisair’s PHY is available for commercial production via Wisair’s chipsets and reference design solutions.
WiMedia is the de-facto Common Radio Platform for Ultra Wideband (UWB) wireless communications and has also been adopted by ECMA as the EC-368 standard. WiMedia UWB has been selected by the Bluetooth SIG and the USB Implementers Forum as the foundation radio of their high-speed wireless specifications for use in next-generation consumer electronics, mobile and computer applications.
The WiMedia Alliance Compliance and Interoperability Policy (CIP) defines the compliance, interoperability, registration, and certification required by all commercially available WiMedia-based implementations. It applies to PHY, Common Radio Platform, and Certified End-Product implementations intended for commercial use.
“Certification is an important step toward the commercialization of WiMedia-based products and the interoperability between vendors,” said David Yaish, Wisair CEO. “We intend to continue with the CIP path toward WiMedia Common Radio Platform certification (PHY and MAC), as well as Certified Wireless USB, as these events become available in the coming months.”
WiMedia’s Certification Program is comprised of two parts, the first of which, a compliance and interoperability program, tests and “registers” Physical Layer implementations (PHYs), based on the WiMedia Alliance’s PHY specification. Once a PHY is registered, that PHY then becomes eligible for use in a platform that can be submitted for certification against the program’s second part, the WiMedia Platform Certification. The WiMedia’s Certification Program relies on registered PHYs for the verification of a platform’s functionality and coexistence mechanisms, thereby providing the assurance that any platform that passes certification will coexist with other certified platforms, regardless of the protocol, end application or company of origin.
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 The WiMedia Alliance
The WiMedia Alliance is a not-for-profit open industry association that promotes and enables the rapid adoption, regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperability of ultrawideband (UWB) worldwide. The basis for the industry’s first UWB standards (published by Ecma International), WiMedia UWB is optimized for wireless personal-area networks delivering high-speed (480Mbps and beyond), low-power multimedia capabilities for the PC, CE, mobile and automotive market segments. Emphasizing peaceful coexistence with other wireless services, the WiMedia UWB Common Radio Platform is designed to operate with application stacks developed by the 1394 Trade Association Wireless Working Group, the Certified Wireless USB Promoter Group and the Bluetooth-SIG. WiMedia’s board members include Alereon, HP, Intel, Kodak, Microsoft, Nokia, Philips, Samsung Electronics, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Staccato Communications, Texas Instruments and Wisair. For more information, please visit www.wimedia.org.