GainSpan, a company that creates a broad range of semiconductor solutions and an innovator in Wi-Fi sensor network technology, has signed an agreement with
Wipro-NewLogic for licensing Wipro (
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A subsidiary of Wipro Limited, Wipro-NewLogic is a provider of semiconductor design services and a supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) cores for complex wireless and wireline applications,
Wipro-NewLogic’s WLAN IP has been integrated into System on Chip (SoC) devices for a wide range of applications such as audio streaming, gaming consoles and Wi-Fi-WiMAX (
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The company’s WiLD IP offers a complete 802.11 WLAN solution including MAC, Modem and RF (Radio technology). The IP supports both the station and the access point mode. Additionally, these design services are also offered to customize the IP for special applications like sensor, industrial automation, defense, and space among many others.
GainSpan announced that it will use the licensed solution in its GS1010 SoC for extreme low power wireless sensor applications.
The GainSpan GS1010 SoC is a highly integrated system on chip that provides years of life and intelligent power management for battery operated devices. This system combines a complete WLAN sub-system including the radio with an application CPU, SRAM and Flash memory plus multiple I/Os for sensor connectivity.
The SoC is architected for extreme low power operations and features an intelligent power management. Depending on the application, OEM products that incorporate the GainSpan GS1010 SoC can achieve battery life as long as 10 years on a single AA battery.
“With Wipro-NewLogic we found an IP provider who not only had a complete and mature WLAN solution including RF but who could also help us customize the IP for extreme low power operations,” said Vijay Parmar, chief executive officer at GainSpan.
“We are delighted to enable GainSpan to utilize 802.11 WLAN technology in an application that so far has been dominated by Zigbee and other implementations of IEEE (
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Murugesan believes that by using the company’s standards-compliant IP, battery powered sensors and embedded applications based on GainSpan technology can now be deployed cost effectively, leveraging the huge installed base of WiFi (
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Edited by Michelle Robart