Developed by VLSI’s Communications Product Group headquartered in Sophia-Antipolis, the ready-to-use, type-approved software can dramatically accelerate the market introduction of low-cost, high-featured DECT products.

Running on VLSI Technology’s Vega(TM) DECT processor, the GAP software implements all the functions needed in a DECT terminal. A version of the software for base stations will shortly begin tests. VLSI will provide the new GAP software in full source or object form to customers developing systems around the Vega, VMax(TM), and Vega+(TM) devices or around ASICs based on these platforms.

DECT equipment based on Vega-family silicon is already in the marketplace, and new products, some using VLSI’s GAP software, are expected to be introduced in the coming months.

Providing System-on-a Chip Solution(TM)

“We’re delighted by this first-time success,” said Patrick Edmond, Cordless marketing manager. “VLSI is already established as a leading supplier of DECT baseband technology, and this ready-to-use software offering further reinforces our strength as a provider of system-on-a-chip solutions.”

Edmond added that VLSI’s DECT market success is underlined by a series of recent design wins Group delivers decisive advantages for customers in the cellular market with the GSM OneC(TM) and CDMA+(TM) single-chip baseband solutions, and in the cordless market with VLSI’s Vega family of DECT solutions (Vega, VMax and Vega+), as

platform solution for all major wireless standards as well as future third-generation standards.

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