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To: JohnG who wrote (69275)	3/20/2000 11:24:00 AM
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PrairieComm--old news on their chipset. JohnG Daily news for semiconductor industry managers A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted 4:30 p.m. EDT/1:30 p.m. PDT, 9/23/98 Mitel, PrairieComm develop complete CDMA chip set SAN JOSE -- Mitel Semiconductor here and PrairieComm Inc., of Arlington Heights, Ill., today announced a complete CDMA "antenna-to-microphone" chip-set solution, the result of a joint development effort. PrairieComm's PCI9501 Earth digital-baseband IC, introduced today, is a companion to Mitel's CDMA radio chip set, the Planets. The companies leveraged PrairieComm's digital cellular systems, embedded software, and systems-on-a-chip expertise with Mitel's digital, mixed-signal, and RF IC designs to develop a silicon platform for CDMA-compliant handsets. The chip set provides handset manufacturers with an integrated, end-to-end solution that meets demands for high performance, low power, and low cost. The collaboration aimed to make Earth and the Planets work as a complete system, said Thomas Farmer, vice president of sales and marketing at PrairieComm. "There is no way you can optimize overall handset performance by designing these components in isolation. You must think and design in terms of the whole system." "Our strategy is to provide customers with a proven and easy route to digital cellular products," said Andrew Burt, CDMA marketing manager at Mitel Semiconductor, a unit of Canadian telecommunications giant Mitel Corp. "With PrairieComm, we have developed an antenna-to-microphone silicon platform that solves the most complex technology issues and allows CDMA handset manufacturers to concentrate on areas of market winning differentiation." PrairieComm acquired a CDMA ASIC license from Qualcomm Inc. in 1997. The PCI9501 Earth combines DSP and microprocessor cores, accelerator logic, and DSP firmware to perform all of the Layer I functions required by the CDMA cellular protocol. Engineering samples of Earth and preproduction versions of PCI9500 SEA are currently available.