A reminder of how competitive the ASIC mkt will also be:
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation -- Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group's digital signal processor (DSP) provides the wireless communications capabilities for 3Com's new Palm VII connected organizer introduced here today at 3Com's Palm Computing Platform Worldwide Developer Conference.
3Com's Palm VII organizer will provide fast, secure and easy out-of-the-box access to personal, business and Internet information. The product will enable users to quickly and easily obtain important information on the Internet remotely via a wireless connection. The Palm VII organizer is expected to be available in 1999.
Lucent's POMP(TM)-15 ("Peace of Mind Processor") chip, introduced in 1996, is one of the world's first DSPs to be used in a handheld organizer to provide wireless capabilities. Lucent's chip, which enables the Palm VII organizer to communicate with the Mobitex-based BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network(SM), can perform in numerous other wireless systems as well.
Lucent's POMP-15 chip executes the functions typically requiring three chips, thereby lowering the DSP and codec circuit board space consumption. This chip performs DSP functions such as channel coding, as well as digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital signal conversions. The low-power-consuming POMP-15, which operates on 40 microamps at 3 volts in full sleep mode, enables weeks of battery life on the Palm VII organizer.
3Com reduced its product development time and costs using Lucent's highly-integrated development tools and its FlashDSP(R) technology, which is offered along with the POMP-15. FlashDSP cuts reprogramming time of the POMP-15 from weeks to minutes.
"No other DSP on the market offers as full a package of benefits for our needs as Lucent's POMP-15," said Mark Bercow, vice president, strategic alliances and platform development for 3Com. "Low chip count, rapid time-to-market and longer battery life were absolutely critical to us, and the POMP-15 excels at all of those."
"This exciting relationship with 3Com, the undisputed electronic organizer market leader, was a logical new market for us to enter as we continue to pursue wireless semiconductor business opportunities with the industry's leaders," said Aaron Fisher, vice president of the wireless business unit within Lucent's Microelectronics Group.
Lucent Technologies Inc. designs, builds, and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit its web site at lucent.com.
Lucent's Microelectronics Group designs and manufactures integrated circuits and optoelectronic components for the computer and communications industries.
More information about the POMP-15 can be obtained by going to the following web site: lucent.com; click on search; type in POMP; and hit enter. Additional information about the Microelectronics Group is available from its web site at lucent.com. |
