First ZigBee SDIO Card Debuts; Delivers Wireless Device-to-Device Communications

Tokyo -- C-guys, Inc., a designer and developer of SD and SDIO solutions for home, SOHO, and SMB applications, today announced the first ZigBee SDIO card.

C-guys' new ZigBee SDIO card is designed to control applications in home, industrial, and healthcare environments. The company will demo its new card at CeBit to show how a ZigBee device can remotely control systems such as home lighting or security systems. The C-guys ZigBee SDIO technology can also work as a health tracking system or a fault detection network.

"C-guys' new ZigBee SDIO card is opening a new door for consumer electronics devices such as PDAs and smart phones. We are truly excited to offer our customers an SDIO solution that competes with USB or SPI (serial peripheral interface) interfaces," Keith Hirayama, CEO of C-guys, said. "The demand for mobile solutions to meet low-power communication requirements is rapidly accelerating. Our ZigBee solution is the perfect solution to meet that demand."

C-guys' new ZigBee SDIO card includes the company's CG-100 SDIO application interface controller, which is designed to convert an application signal to an SD signal (or vice versa). The ZigBee card boasts of signal ranges of up to 10 m in the 2.4 GHz band and data rates of up to 200 Kbps. The card features Peer-to-Peer communication mode and supports direct application to PDAs or any SD supported hand-held.

Source: C-guys, Inc.