KISTA, Sweden -- Spirea AB, a startup fabless semiconductor company developing RF circuits for short-range wireless communications such as Bluetooth, today announced it is sending customers samples of 'TripleTraC', a tri-band 5.8GHz/5.2GHz/2.4GHz CMOS transceiver for wireless local area networks (WLANs).
TripleTraC supports IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b standards and the draft IEEE 802.11g standard, Spirea said, adding that it expects the chip to be in full production by the second quarter of 2003.
"TripleTraC enables our chip-set partners to create very low cost multi-standard 802.11 solutions with a minimum investment in RF resources," said Johnny Johansson, president and chief executive officer of Spirea, in a statement.
The TripleTraC chip is based on a reconfigurable CMOS transceiver architecture, the company said.
Spirea offers boards for RF evaluation and early prototyping as well as a reference design as a starting point for the design of boards for volume manufacturing. The RF design work includes a bill of materials (BoM) telling designers what passive and other components are required, the company said.
