UltraWideBand

• Hardware and software development for very high speed data links
• interfacing solutions for custom wireless applications
• wire reduction for point-to-point and pointto- multipoint network configurations

Applications

The emerging digital home environment is made up of many different consumer electronics devices

• Consumer Electronics devices - Digital video and audio players.
• Mobile devices - cellular phones, PDAs
• Personal computing devices - notebook PCs
that will support a multitude of applications.

While current technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi provide short-range connectivity for some of these devices, they do not deliver sufficient performance for applications that require :

streaming of multiple simultaneous high-quality video streams.

Advantages

UWB technology provides the throughput required by the next generation of converged devices. Plus, the support of industry initiatives, such as the WiMedia Alliance, will help ensure interoperability across multiple protocols, including IEEE 1394, USB, and Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), making UWB a broad technology solution for creating high-speed, low-cost, and lowpower WPANs.

Advantages of UWB

• Promising high data rates at very low cost
• Very high spatial capacity
• Extremely difficult to intercept or interfere with
• Best for severe multi-path environments
• Low power consumption and small size
• Sharing the bandwidth with other systems (No need for licensing)
• High precision positioning and radar