(EMAILWIRE.COM, March 27, 2008 ) BURLINGAME, CA – March 27, 2008 – LitePoint Corporation unveiled its new IQultra at yesterday’s WiMedia Alliance Open House & Exhibition. The new system test solution is aimed at devices based on UWB radios, and offers comprehensive test for all six WiMedia band groups.

“Like our other single-box solutions, this one is designed to meet the testing needs from development through high-volume production,” explained Onno Harms, LitePoint product manager. “It is an outgrowth of the prototype we showed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January,” he added.

This specific demonstration showed IQultra capturing continuous packets from an Alereon AL5000-based wireless USB reference design. Both the device under test and the IQultra were processing packets being transmitted over the Band Group 6 portion of the UWB spectrum. Band Group 6 is the one having global authorization.

LitePoint’s IQultra UWB test solution is a platform consisting of hardware and software subsystems. IQsignal software provides the graphical user interface for controlling the tester and displaying the results of rapid and comprehensive error-vector magnitude (EVM) analysis of captured packets. An open C++ API makes it easy for users to integrate their own test programs. LitePoint also offers IQfact software specific to various UWB chip sets that provides a turnkey test solution for both development and high-volume production testing.

Wireless “connectivity”
The WiMedia standard covers wireless replacement of the cables that connect today’s electronic marvels. It can eliminate the cable between desktop or laptop and printer; the cable between digital camera or camcorder and TV; as well as supporting wireless communications between two personal media players. WiMedia is a very broad standard, with many device profiles, covering a wide swath of frequencies (3.1 to 10.6 GHz), using band-hopping techniques and very low power transmissions (to limit interference potential while preserving the appropriate distance range).

One of the first WiMedia applications is wireless USB – a wireless analogy to a wired USB, allowing a wide variety of devices to be attached to an appropriately equipped desktop, laptop, PDA, cell phone, set-top box, and the like. Some market analysts have predicted that the ultimate WiMedia Ultra Wideband (UWB) market will be larger than that of Wi-Fi.


The Wireless Value Chain
Wireless devices, from cell phones to Wi-Fi adapters and access points, are the product of value-chained entities. IC makers enable huge volumes of such products with their standards-based silicon chips and reference designs. Original design makers (ODMs) add value by creating the complete product. Contract manufacturers then turn out high volumes of these products. And, all value-chain entities are orchestrated by the product brand owners. To remain competitive in these highly charged markets, product brand owners depend on such value chains to go from device concept to high-volume production in a matter of months.

LitePoint Corporation, based in Sunnyvale California, designs, develops, markets, and supports advanced wireless test solutions for: developers and marketers of branded wireless products; consumer electronics and contract manufacturers; and wireless IC designers. Through its in-house expertise in the design of wireless systems and ICs, LitePoint has developed innovative test solutions to assure products conform to specifications, interoperate with other compliant products, and perform as described. LitePoint's test products address both development and high-volume production, providing its customers with superior return on investment, accelerated time-to-market, improved manufacturing yields, improved product quality, and increased profitability. For more information, visit LitePoint at www.litepoint.com.

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