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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (23537)	3/1/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: Robert Sheldon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Good conversation . . . Good points too . . . Actually, when VCOs are produced they are tested in the pick & place assembly process to make sure they are properly ‘tuned'. I do understand your comments relating to the rest of the production process however. My point rests in that the demands placed on next generation VCOs are much greater than existing VCOs. Currently if a VCO fails to retain the signal properly the call is dropped. No big deal if you are just on a phone conversation. If you are transferring data this could become the downfall of handset based data transfer. I believe that we will eventually see VCOs (that become components of PLLs) that were traditionally utilized in base stations become ubiquitous in broadband handsets too. Currently, one supplier of VCOs (VARL) supplies ~95% of this market (the % is from industry infrastructure producer estimates). Anyway, I think we are getting too far off topic. Send me a private e-mail to continue our rambling . . .