Company: Pulse~LINK, Inc.
San Diego, California
www.pulselink.net

Jazz Process Chosen: SBC18 (0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS)

Product: SiGe RF Chip for UWB Wireless LAN

Description: Jazz provided foundry services for the RF transceiver chip, the most critical front-end part of Pulse~LINK's high speed UWB WLAN chipset.

Target: Pulse~LINK supplies its chipsets and solutions to customers for highly secure, high performance, next generation WLAN applications.

"The added complexity involved in achieving greater transmission ranges (WLAN vs. WPAN) brings a requirement for greater microchip processing capabilities than might be typically used for other UWB and wireless communications. To mitigate development requirements, we turned to a microchip technology normally reserved for advanced fiber-optics."
-- John Santhoff, Founder and CTO, Pulse~LINK