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ASIC for the intelligent house Application Easy Living is a seven-year-old Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm. The company develops integrated electronic products for Smart Houses and manufactures the radio solutions, the system and the plastic housing. Easy Living’s biggest customer is Ericsson, and the system is developed according to OSGI, a standard adapted to major IT companies such as Ericsson and IBM for “residential gateways”. Since 1997 Nordic VLSI has had a close co-operation with Easy Living AB in Stockholm giving them support in the development and commercialisation phase of their solutions for intelligent houses. Easy Living calls itself a supplier of 20 Radio module for home automation Smart House solutions. In the future we’ll all see the launching of many smart solutions that will radically change people’s everyday life. Easy Living is developing a wide range of products for various sensors and control solutions, where we envision everything from fire to humidity alarms. The ASIC Nordic VLSI supplies a highly integrated transceiver for wireless communication, which with its size and functionality makes it possible to manufacture such a commercial product for the international market. The focus in the development and design of the transceivers, was to have a product that could be integrated for volume production. All circuits are RF tested in produc- --------- --------------- service center --------- Nordic --------------- tion, and designed without need for manual adjustments. This makes it possible for Easy Living to use a fully automated surface production line. All Nordic’s devices use frequency shift keying as robust modulation technique for wireless communication. This ensures high data rates, long range and robust communication. This gives Easy Living products that are able to communicate with each other anywhere in the home and in a unique way. The ASIC has been designed in the AMS 0.8µ BiCMOS technology
ASIC for the electronic toll collection Application Nordic VLSI has played an important part in the development of Q- Free’s electronic toll collection solutions. From 1999 to the present, Nordic VLSI has delivered millions of components comprising an important part of Q-Free’s success in the domestic and international market. What’s special about chip company Q-Free is that they are a total supplier that designs and develops complete systems for electronic toll collection. The Q-Free chip is a tiny, but vital, part of an electronic toll collection system. One reason is that the systems will be running at huge volumes and must therefore be one hundred percent functional from day one. A chip currently operates according to the European standard of 5.8 GHz and consists mainly of an analogue and a digital part as well as a power supply (battery). Nordic VLSI and Q-Free have collaborated for many years and the projects have become bigger. As Q- Free consolidated its position in a tough international market and with considerable volumes, solutions involving ASIC have become more interesting to develop. This is where Nordic VLSI has the expertise Q-Free can use. Q-Free represents a market where the customer has expertise to do parts of the development internally and where Nordic VLSI mates its intellectual property (IP) modules with the customers solution. This together with Q-Free’s internally developed library give the customer low power consumption as well as compact and reliable solutions. Q-Free stands apart from other hitech companies in the business because they work with very advanced fields of technology covering a wide range. In the systems they use microwave communication, analogue and digital electronics, optical systems, realtime data systems, databases, etc. This is required to create a complete electronic toll collection system. --------- --------------- service center --------- Nordic --------------- Technology: ESM 0.5 CMOS (1P3M) Packaging: SOIC16 - OSE Test: EUROPRACTICE partner Delta 21
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