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Honeywell Announces RFIC Product Development Alliance With RF Integration
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, November 10, 2000
Plymouth, Minnesota based Honeywell Solid State Electronics Center (SSEC) and Lowell, Massachusetts based RF Integration Inc. have announced a product development alliance to develop a line of high performance, low cost standard RFIC products for the Wireless and Broadband Communication Industries. Using Honeywell SSECs µwave CMOS SOI foundry and RF Integration¼s development capabilities, these RFIC products will integrate digital and RF functions onto single chips.Honeywells SOI technology takes advantage of high-yield silicon processing and achieves high levels of RF, passive and digital integration with low power dissipation. RF Integration, which operates as a fabless semiconductor company, has expertise in the development of high performance, high volume RFIC¼s.
The jointly developed products will support the Wireless and Broadband marketplace and focus on Infrastructure, Wireless Telephony, WLAN and WLL applications. These products will be available in small outline plastic packages, in prototype quantities first quarter 2001. Initial products will include digital attenuators and high-isolation switches with integral decoder drivers and logic functions. Customers have the option of contracting with Honeywell for design, wafer fabrication, assembly, and test services or of working directly with RF Integration during the design phase.
For more details, please contact Brian Groft (Business Development Manager) of Honeywell SSEC at 410-964-4123 or brian.groft@honeywell.com, or Jean Luc Lembert (VP Strategic Business Development) at RF Integration at 858-541-0239 or jllembert@rfintegration.com.
The Solid State Electronics Center, located in Plymouth, Minn., develops and manufacturers high reliability, high performance integrated circuits, sensors, and electronic components for a variety of military, space, and commercial applications. SSEC is part of Honeywell Space Systems.
Honeywell International is a US$24-billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; power generation systems; specialty chemicals; fibers; plastics; and electronic and advanced materials. The company is a leading provider of software and solutions, and Internet e-hubs, including MyPlant.com, MyFacilities.com and MyAircraft.com (joint venture with United Technologies and i2 Technologies). Honeywell employs approximately 120,000 people in 95 countries and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HON, as well as on the London, Chicago, and Pacific stock exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & PoorÌs 5000 Index. Additional information on the company is available on the Internet at www.honeywell.com
