Redpine Signals Inc., a supplier of wireless communications solutions, announced the introduction of the Lite-Fi product series – the semiconductor platform for hand held devices offering wireless connectivity conforming to the draft IEEE 802.11n standard.
The Lite-Fi Low-Power WLAN Platform offers full compliance to the IEEE 802.11n draft standard in a single antenna mode and leverages advanced patent pending application aware power savings techniques to deliver significantly improved battery life. It also delivers robust performance and extended range while offering full backward compatibility with existing 802.11abg networks. It consumes less than 250 mW during receive operations at the maximum link rate of 65 Mbps. This includes the power consumed by the RF Transceiver, MAC, Baseband processor, two highly optimized processing systems and host interfaces.
Venkat Mattela, CEO at Redpine, said, "The power consumed by a wireless device for a given amount of data decreases in inverse proportion to the rate at which the data can be transferred. Wireless communication systems suffer from drops in throughput when operating at suboptimal ranges or in hostile environments, resulting in excessive battery drain for transferring a given amount of data. Lite-Fi offers mobile consumer devices significantly more battery life utilizing its high performance receiver and low intrinsic power consumption."
