WiQuest Announces Availability Of Certified Wireless USB Reference Designs

Allen, TX -- WiQuest Communications, Inc. announced the availability of two new products based on the Certified Wireless USB technology from the USB Implementers Forum. The DWA 4-port Hub and HWA Dongle Reference Design Kits are based on WiQuest's recently announced WQST110 and WQST101 UWB chipset (see related story). These new reference design kits will enable equipment manufacturers to build complete Device Wire Adapter (DWA) and Host Wire Adapter (HWA) solutions from a pair of reference platforms. Both product configurations provide wireless performance with standard WiMedia data rates from 53 Mbps to 480 Mbps.

"WiQuest's complete solution approach has resulted in an answer for Certified Wireless USB that is software-configurable as either a host or device," said Dr. Matthew B. Shoemake, WiQuest founder, CEO and president. "This approach eliminates the burden of selecting chipsets from multiple vendors. It also allows end product manufacturers to get their products based on Certified Wireless USB to market quickly by leveraging tested, proven and interoperable reference designs from WiQuest."

WiQuest recently announced the availability of its WQST110 and WQST101 chipset. The WQST110 includes a WiMedia-based UWB media access controller (MAC), physical layer (PHY) baseband processor and integrated USB 2.0 high-speed transceiver. The WQST101 is a direct conversion UWB RF transceiver.

WiQuest's HWA Dongle, based on Certified Wireless USB, is a design that provides Wireless UWB high-speed services to existing wired USB devices. The HWA Dongle Reference Design is also suitable for embedded designs. WiQuest's Hub, also based on Certified Wireless USB, is a design for mobile and portable systems to communicate wirelessly with standard USB peripherals including printers, scanners, hard disk drives, keyboards and mice.

Both reference design kits include hardware and software. The hardware portion includes a working adapter sample along with schematics, layout source files, a detailed bill-of-material, design manual, user's guide and a quick-start guide. Depending upon the particular configuration, the software package includes Host Wire Adapter (HWA) driver/firmware and Device Wire Adapter (DWA) firmware. It also includes a Microsoft Windows-based utility which supports device discovery, field upgrade functionality, comprehensive diagnostics and the newly-defined wireless USB association models.

SOURCE: WiQuest Communications, Inc.