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Unigen builds and sells its' 250,000th JUNO WirelessUSBâ„¢ Module
September 14, 2007

FREMONT, Calif., 2 May 2005 - Unigen marked a production milestone today as the corporation's 250,000th JUNO WirelessUSB™ Module rolled off the company's high volume production line. Designed and built entirely at Unigen's Fremont facility, along with its quarter million counterparts, the anniversary module was completed at noon on Friday April 29, 2005. "We are extremely excited about this accomplishment," said Andy Tarantola, Distribution Sales Coordinator at the Fremont complex, "The fruition of the JUNO line has exceeded our wildest expectations and has truly come into its own. We have received nothing but positive feedback from our OEM clientele regarding this product and foresee continued success in the WirelessUSB™ market."    

The JUNO product family promises to revolutionize not only the wireless market, but also bring the vision of a wireless desktop on step closer to realization. JUNO's "drop-in" solutions are compatible with numerous existing operating system HID drivers and useful for a variety of device designs. From mice to printers to keyboards, WirelessUSB™ continues to prove their versatility in a variety of industrial and commercial markets. The impressive range of these devices, from 10 to 1000 meters, also allow for incorporation into remote scientific data collection applications, R/C cars and planes, as well as a myriad of security sensory functions. Both the JUNO-B and JUNO-L are offered at prices in 10K+ quantities under USD$6.00. Unigen will supply technical and application support for the modules, including a reference list of approved components, and application notes and documentation. "We are very impressed with the rate of adoption of the Juno product line with our OEM customers" said Mark Morrissey, Director of Business Development. "Cypress has developed a product that truely answers the needs of the market and Unigen has wrapped that technology into a FCC, IC, CE certified modules that allow customer's "concept to production" window to shrink to weeks rather than the traditional months or years."

 

About WirelessUSB™:

WirelessUSB™, introduced in October 2002, was designed by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. to target point-to-point Human Interface Device (HID) applications, including PC mice, keyboards and video gamepads. Since then, the WirelessUSB™ family of radio system-on-a-chip solutions has expanded to also target longer-range commercial and temperature-sensitive industrial applications.

WirelessUSB™ devices employ a unique patent-pending approach to Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) technology that avoids signal interference from other technologies in the 2.4 GHz band such as 802.11b, Bluetooth, and wireless emissions from both cordless phones and microwave ovens.

They also feature a -95 dBm receive sensitivity rating, ensuring a strong signal at up to 50 meters and beyond. Featuring a highly integrated radio transceiver plus digital baseband, WirelessUSB™ enables designers to significantly decrease development time, component count and system costs.

The devices feature a data transmission rate of up to 62.5 kbps with an average latency of below 10 milliseconds. They are also noted for their very low standby current of approximately 0.25-microamp and up to 0 dBm output power, which translates into years of battery life for a typical, low-data rate device.