Manufacturers realize that making devices smaller and equipped for high-data speed is becoming as important as efficiency across technology lines.
Tropian Inc., a semiconductor company that offers advanced radio-frequency products to the wireless industry, has developed a multimode transmitter for wireless applications.
The product, called TimeStar, is a power amplifier chipset, which the company describes as a cost-effective, compact solution for wireless devices using EDGE, GPRS, GAIT, GSM, TDMA and AMPS standards.
“TimesStar will enable manufacturers to quickly bring to market cost-effective, highly reliable phones and other wireless products that can deliver and access voice and high-speed data virtually anywhere in the world,” said Mike Farese, Tropian’s president and chief executive officer.
The company said TimeStar, which also supports 1G, 2G, 2.5G and 3G technologies, will be presented for initial sampling in June, although mass production will not begin until the first quarter of 2002.
The product, according to the company, features multiple-voice and high-speed data in one package, better radio performance and reduced development time, elimination of filters and other components for reduced cost and simplified manufacturing, stable performance over temperature, voltage and load variations, capacity to allow equipment to instantaneously change mode of operation on a per-time-slot basis, low-cost technology and multimode efficiency equal to or better than best-in-class single-mode solutions.
The company said its products are based on its Polar Impact technology, its patented non-linear, polar modulation architecture for wireless handsets and base stations. Its RF platform, according to the company, enables vendors to deliver voice and high-speed wireless data services like Internet, e-mail and network connection capabilities to multimode handsets and other wireless devices.
Tropian said it is backed by a number of Silicon Valley’s leading venture-capital firms like Crosspoint Venture Partners and Convergence Partners.
The Editors of Red Herring recently named it as one of the 100 top public and private companies in business innovations.
“It is especially meaningful to us as Tropian prepares to bring to market its first products that enable manufacturers to offer wireless voice and high-speed data devices for use virtually anywhere in the world,” said Farese.
