Artimi Announces First Complete Single-Chip UWB Solution

Santa Clara, CA -- Artimi Inc. announced it has taken delivery of RTMI-100, which Artimi claims is the world's first complete working single-chip ultra wideband (UWB) solution, from its foundry. Samples will be made available to development partners for early design-ins.

The RTMI-100 is a complete UWB solution in a single chip implemented in 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS. The digital portion of the device is implemented in CMOS and the high frequency section implemented in SiGe. The RTMI-100 can process up to 4 GHz of coherent bandwidth and includes integrated LNA and PA, adaptive channel digital radio, IEEE 802.15.3 MAC, standard PCI 2.3 interface with master/slave, and flexible expansion port with dedicated RISC I/O processor. It is designed to be compliant with FCC Part 15 Subpart F. It also features Artimi's QoS technology, which supports streaming media without any other processing in the solution.

"The RTMI-100 represents a significant milestone in UWB development," Colin Macnab, CEO of Artimi, said. "The RTMI-100 has proven Artimi's design methodology and provides a complete working UWB solution for our early customers. Our single-chip UWB device demonstrates Artimi's commitment to providing the lowest cost complete UWB solutions. Our active participation in standards and industry groups, such as the IEEE and WiMedia Alliance, will ensure future compatibility and interoperability of our UWB devices. In addition, our flexible architecture will enable us to deliver a single chip MBOA compliant solution when the standard is finalized."

With an underlying 800 Mbps transport capability, plus integrated error correction and encryption, the RTMI-100 is ideal for high bandwidth wire replacement, such as high performance bulk file transfers or where quality of service is important, like streaming audio and video between a DVD player and an LCD home theater system. Artimi is working with manufacturers in the consumer electronics, PC, and mobile markets to develop end user products based on its UWB technology.

"Artimi welcomes the Bluetooth SIG's announcement advancing the next generation Bluetooth to a UWB based solution," Macnab added. "Artimi's development team has significant experience in the Bluetooth arena and our PHY-neutral system architecture was designed from the ground up to facilitate operation with Bluetooth application profiles."

Artimi will showcase the RTMI-100 single chip UWB solution and demonstrate UWB video applications this week at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan.

Source: Artimi Inc.