Atlanta IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2008 — Skyworks Solutions has introduced a product portfolio of energy management solutions for the wireless home by uniquely tailoring a range of discrete and highly integrated front-end solutions to support a range of remote metering emerging applications. This comes on the back of the company's Linear Products' business having captured several key design wins with various market leaders for automated meter reading (AMR), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and ZigBee® (IEEE 802.15.4).
Multiple customer's mesh network solutions are going into volume production using the company's tested technology that includes front-end modules (FEMs), power amplifiers (PAs) and drivers, switches, voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs), phase lock loops (PLLs), diodes, and other key building block components.
According to ABS Energy Research, there are approximately 2.5 billion electric, gas and water meters in the world, of which only six percent are automated. As a result, there is pent-up demand for an economic RF solution to more efficiently collect, report and monitor utility usage by both service providers and consumers.
Accordingly, Skyworks has shipped product into more than 2 million meters to date. The company has prioritized energy management, and its suite of RF solutions is gaining traction at key utilities worldwide. For instance, the company recently commenced volume production in support of one of North America's largest electricity providers, with more highly integrated RF solutions on the horizon.
Skyworks' custom FEMs allow for significant size and cost reduction. In addition, many of the company's FEMs are designed to allow for "plug-and-play" functionality, thus drastically reducing the design time for new products. Customized FEMs can be created depending on transceiver implementation requirements. Various modules are being targeted at 450-, 900- and 2400-MHz frequency bands. Integration possibilities include PAs, transmit/receive (T/R) switches, low noise amplifiers (LNAs), harmonic filters, and mixers.
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