Freescale Demonstrates UWB Peripherals

Taiwan's Micro-Star International (MSI) and Freescale Semiconductor demonstrated a wireless connection between the MSI Entertainment and Gaming Appliance (MEGA) PC and two liquid crystal display (LCD) screens using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology. The demonstration is believed to be the first Direct Sequence Ultra-Wideband (DS-UWB) demonstration involving a MEGA PC home entertainment platform.



The demonstration included a MEGA PC that wirelessly streamed two live simultaneous video and audio streams with a collective data rate of 40 Mbps across the room to two LCD displays. Freescale's current UWB chipset is capable of transmitting data up to 110 Mbps, enabling up to three concurrent streams of video over a single UWB connection, if desired.



Freescale is positioning its UWB chipset for products such as set-top boxes, digital displays, camcorders, DVD players, digital video recorders and digital cameras to send and receive digital streams of audio and video. http://www.freescale.com