[Wi-LAN]
Hi Tom,
Today, on a most mindless general search on DSPG, I kinda stumbled on some rather interesting connections (thanks Marden) which in all likelihood tie DSPG, VLSI, Philips, and Wireless broadband (including both home networking, LAN and last mile broadband wireless) together...
The link is a very small Canadian company, Wi-LAN, who is not only into a batch of cool stuff, but might hold the IP for OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) which is important because some rather large companies like Cisco, Bechtel Telecommunications, Electronic Data Systems, KPMG, LCC International, Motorola, Pace Micro Technology, Samsung Electronics, Toshiba, Broadcom and Texas Instruments have thrown their weight behind a variant known as vector-based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (VOFDM) as an industry coalition for broadband wireless access.
techweb.com
and
globetechnology.com
(my favorite line is "..it would appear that Wi-LAN's days as a little-known technology developer are over...")
In the wooda/if only I'd been paying more attention department... Wi-LAN's stock price been on a roll (not surprisingly) .. biz.yahoo.com ... I think I'd like to have some... hmmm
Well... it just so happens that a while back before all this hulabaloo .. Philip licensed/demonstrated Wi-Lan's tech ... (how does 54 Mbps wireless LAN sound?):
"Philips Semiconductors and Wi-LAN to conduct industry's first wireless transmission of IEEE 1394 using W-OFDM technology
IFA 99 demonstration makes wireless multimedia home networking a reality
Philips Semiconductors, a global leader in wireless home networking, baseband,semiconductor and networking technology, along with Wi-LAN, a technology leader in the wireless Internet/data communications sector, today announced a demonstration of wireless transmission of IEEE 1394 at 2.4 GHz using Wi-LAN's patented Wideband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (W-OFDM) technology. The industry's first demonstration of wireless IEEE 1394 will take place at the Hotel Berlin from 30 August to 3 September in Berlin, Germany during the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) 1999. This latest development establishes W-OFDM, the most bandwidth-efficient wireless transmission technology, as the only technology capable of providing data rates necessary for in-home multimedia networking."
www-us.semiconductors.philips.com
This tech of course needs silicon and it looks like it needs silicon with dsp cores.. Now that Phillips has picked up VLSI .. they have have access to such cores thru good 'ol DSPG:
"1999-11-01 , SSC-9908
Business News From Philips Semiconductors
Philips Semiconductors unveils embedded DSP strategy
Company aims to deliver embedded technology for complete system-on-silicon solution for consumer electronics, communications and speech applications Philips Semiconductors today announced a strategy to gain a leadership role in the rapidly growing embedded Digital Signal Processor (DSP) market. The company's core technology and 30-year history in the embedded DSP market, coupled with the technology and development tool expertise gained through the acquisition of VLSI Technology, enables Philips Semiconductors to provide comprehensive, true system-on-silicon solutions for high-performance applications such as consumer electronics devices, navigation systems and speech recognition products.
"Embedded DSP is a key technology for many high-growth semiconductor markets, including cellular phones, whose shipments will grow 27% (CAGR) through 2003," said Allen Leibovitch, program manager at International Data Corporation, a leading international research company. "By adding VLSI's wireless expertise, intellectual property, and Velocity Rapid Silicon Prototyping platform to its own strong background in communications and consumer semiconductors, Philips Semiconductors is positioned to capture a significant share of this growth."
"Customers that use embedded processing technology have a unique and complex array of needs," said Ray Slusarczyk, director of marketing for Philips Semiconductors' Embedded Processing Group. "The market demands comprehensive embedded DSP solutions that are flexible, high-performance and low-cost. Philips Semiconductors is positioned to address these demands and offer the market a 'one-stop-shop' for embedded DSP solutions."
Philips Semiconductors, with the acquisition of VLSI Technology, now offers a market-leading array of embedded technology and methodologies that will provide complete, low-cost, low-power solutions that offer increased performance and proven development tools to reduce time-to-market. Along with DSP cores such as R.E.A.L. DSP, Oak and Palm , Philips Semiconductors offers customers a variety of options
www-us.semiconductors.philips.com
As I recall, you are more than somewhat familiar with VLSI... whadyathink? Am moving pretty quickly thru all this... and certainly could be over-doing connections ... On the other hand in the last cc DSPG noted that VLSI was still significant for DSPG in that they had "a major design win based on our dsp core..."
the two posts which started me off on all this:
techstocks.com
techstocks.com
and if all these links aren't enuf already, here's a few more good ones for Wi-Lan:
wi-lan.com
gotta go to the airport pretty soon to pick-up our one-and-only-pretty-much-all-grown-up-next-generation representative..
best wishes and hope you and yours have a happy turkey day!
see ya
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