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Artimi Advances Near
Field Communication for Secure High Throughput Wireless Connectivity
June 06, 2007
Artimi's Integration of NFC and UWB Offers Simple, Secure Association and Data Rates of More Than 120Mbps Over Certified
Wireless USB, Next-Generation Bluetooth and WiMedia Logical Link Control Protocol (WLP)
TAIPEI, TAIWAN--(Marketwire
- June 6, 2007) - Computex Taipei -- Artimi, Inc., developer of wireless semiconductors for portable consumer electronics,
brings leading edge Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to multi-protocol ultra wideband (UWB) wireless connectivity.
With the addition of NFC for simple, secure association, portable devices using Certified Wireless USB, next-generation Bluetooth
or WLP connectivity can be secured for high data rate transfer and file sharing. Artimi's integrated NFC and multi-protocol
UWB technology is being showcased this week at Computex Taipei.
As the world becomes more digitized, the need
to transfer information quickly and accurately between people and devices is increasingly important. With the proliferation
of wireless devices, secure association between two devices is paramount, and NFC promises to do that as easily as possible.
To use NFC with UWB protocols, such as Certified Wireless USB, next-generation Bluetooth or WLP, two devices are either touched
together or passed closely and a secure wireless pairing is made with no user intervention, allowing consumers to transfer
data and share files easily and securely. Artimi's multi-protocol WiMedia-based UWB wireless semiconductors integrated
with NFC for secure association offer more than 120Mbps user throughput across all protocols.
"Pairing of
wireless devices should be ultra simple and ultra secure," says Colin Macnab, CEO of Artimi. "By integrating NFC,
Artimi is delivering ultra simple, and ultra secure wireless connectivity, and in particular further strengthening our lead
in next-generation Bluetooth and Certified Wireless USB. Our key advantage is that there is no need to install host or device
drivers, it just works. We're leading the effort in next-generation wireless association to ensure ease of use not only
for product developers -- but ultimately consumers."
Artimi is also demonstrating other UWB technologies
this week at Computex, including ultra simple wireless file transfer between portable consumer devices over WiMedia-based
protocols. Consumers can take pictures on a digital camera and transfer these to a standard PC over Wireless USB. Files can
then be transferred from PC to a storage device using Wireless USB, and from PC to PC using WiMedia Logical Link Control Protocol
(WLP -- formerly called WiNet). This diversity of connectivity options, further enhanced by NFC for secure association, shows
the maturity of Artimi's production-ready A-150 MAC and applications processor for ultra simple and ultra secure connectivity.
About Artimi
Artimi ®, Inc. provides semiconductors, software and reference designs for high data
rate wireless connectivity, including Certified Wireless USB, next-generation Bluetooth® and WiMedia Logical Link Control
Protocol (WLP). Artimi's products employ WiMedia-based ultra wideband (UWB) radio techniques to enable high-speed wireless
bulk data transfer between portable consumer electronics products. Content rich portable consumer electronics devices benefit
from Artimi's technology, including digital cameras and camcorders, personal media players, and mobile handsets. Artimi,
founded in 2002, is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with research and development in Cambridge, UK, and sales offices
in Japan and Taiwan. For more information, see www.artimi.com.
Source: Marketwire
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