New San Gabriel and Santa Ines Series Modules are Pre-certified to Deliver Drop-In Wireless Connectivity to a Wide-Range of Applications

Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park — Taiwan's "Silicon Valley” and FREMONT, Calif., December 23, 2009 – One of the world’s leading network and computer peripheral IC providers, Realtek Semiconductor Corp., and Unigen Corp. today announce a new family of wireless modules based on Realtek’s 802.11b/g/n radio SOC. Unigen’s new San Gabriel and Santa Ines family offers a small module footprint with big performance. The modules are agency pre-certified to speed time-to-market and eliminate the need for costly RF design resources. The San Gabriel and Santa Ines family has members that target a wide-range of applications in the high bandwidth video, PC, industrial, and consumer markets.

The entire San Gabriel and Santa Ines product families meet all necessary Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) compliance in addition to Industry Canada (IC) certification and Australia New Zealand. The modules come with Modular Approval (MA) to ease the RF compliance burden that many OEMs would otherwise face. The high-performance San Gabriel and Santa Ines families features 2-3x times the transmission and receive range over the previous generation of 802.11b/g with data rates up to 300 mbps and extremely low power consumption as low as 100mA.

“Unigen’s specifications and testing are among the most stringent and exhaustive of any of our customers,” said Realtek’s Executive Vice President Jessy Chen. “Realtek has passed this rigorous battery of tests in full, and we are pleased to provide quality components that meet the speed, range, security, and energy efficiency criteria required by Unigen”.

Both the San Gabriel and Santa Ines are highly integrated module with MIMO (Multiple In, Multiple Out) Wireless LAN (WLAN) with USB 2.0 and SDIO network interfaces, complying with the IEEE 802.11n specification. They combine a MAC, 1T2R (San Gabriel) 2T2R (Santa Ines) capable baseband and RF in a single module providing a complete solution for a high-performance wireless client.

The San Gabriel and Santa Ines baseband implements Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). Features include two spatial streams, short Guard Interval (GI) of 400ns, spatial spreading, and support for both 20MHz and 40MHz channel bandwidth.

The San Gabriel and Santa Ines modules build in an enhanced signal detector, an adaptive frequency domain equalizer, and a soft-decision Viterbi decoder to alleviate severe multi-path effects and mutual interference in the reception of multiple streams. For better detection quality, receive diversity with Maximal-Ratio-Combine (MRC) applying up to two receive paths is implemented. Robust interference detection and suppression are provided to protect against Bluetooth, cordless phone, and microwave oven interference.

Both the San Gabriel and Santa Ines supports 802.11e for multimedia applications, 802.11i for security, and 802.11n for enhanced MAC protocol efficiency. The San Gabriel and Santa Ines provides simple legacy and 20MHz/40MHz co-existence mechanisms to ensure backward and network compatibility.

“The new San Gabriel and Santa Ines Series Modules are designed to fulfill an increasing range of applications precipitated by an unprecedented growth and demand for low cost high speed wireless requirements,” said Mark Morrissey, Vice President of Business Development for Unigen. “Unigen has produced these modules to date for the high bandwidth video applications such as HDTV 1080p; however, we see that the applications in gaming and PC are also starting to embrace the technology.”

Members of the new San Gabriel and Santa Ines family of wireless modules include:

   ·         UGWDR82NUH50-UN1 (San Gabriel-USB)

• Clamshell packaging, Mechanical housing, super bright White LED’s, FCC DEVICE certification, printed embedded antennas 1TR/2RX

·         UGWDR82NUH50A (San Gabriel-USB)

• RF shield over the RF section of the board, FCC MODULAR certification, printed embedded antennas, Push button switch for WPS security, Green LED’s, 1TR/2RX

·         UGWDR82NUH50 (San Gabriel-USB)

• RF shield over the RF section of the board, FCC MODULAR certification, U.FL coaxial connector antennas, Push button switch for WPS security, Green LED’s, 1TR/2RX

·         UGWDS82NUH33-U (San Gabriel-SMT (USB interface))

• RF shield over the RF section of the board, FCC MODULAR certification, 14mm x16mm size, Push button switch for WPS security, Green LED’s, 1TR/2RX

·         UGWDS82NUH33-S (San Gabriel-SMT (SDIO interface))

• RF shield over the RF section of the board, FCC MODULAR certification, 14mm x16mm size, Push button switch for WPS security, Green LED’s, 1TR/2RX

·         UGWDT82NUH50A (Santa Ines-USB)

• Clamshell packaging, Mechanical housing, super bright White LED’s, FCC DEVICE certification, printed embedded antennas, 2TR/2RX

·         UGWDT82NUH50 (Santa Ines-USB)

• Clamshell packaging, FCC MODULAR certification, U.FL coaxial connector antennas, Push button switch for WPS security, Green LED’s 2TR/2RX

Availability

All San Gabriel and Santa Ines wireless modules are currently available.

About Unigen

Unigen is a leader in the design and manufacture of OEM memory, wired and wireless communication, flash memory solutions and Enterprise Solid State Drives. Unigen modules, and services to leading clients in the PC, server, networking, telecommunication, imaging, medical, defense, and mobile computing industries. Unigen's core competency is the design and manufacture of precise and complex standard and customer module products. Unigen services include contract manufacturing and assembly, worldwide product distribution, supply chain management, testing, prototyping, product assurance,  post sales support, ODM and repair services. Unigen is headquartered in Fremont, Calif., and operates state-of-the-art, ISO 9001 certified SMT manufacturing and design facilities. Unigen owns and controls additional manufacturing, design, and sales centers throughout Asia and a worldwide network of manufacturer's representatives. For more information, visit our web site at http://www.unigen.com

About Realtek

Realtek Semiconductor Corp. is one of the world’s leading IC providers. Realtek designs and develops a wide range of IC products for communications network, computer peripheral, and multimedia applications. Products include 10/100/1000M Ethernet Controllers/PHYs, 10/100/1000M Ethernet Switch Media Converter/Gateway Controllers, Wireless LAN Controllers & AP/Router SoCs, DSL Chips, VoIP Solutions, AC'97/High Definition Audio Codecs, Clock Generators, Card Reader Controllers, Web Camera Controllers, LCD Monitor/ATV/DTV Controllers, and Digital Media Processors. With advanced design expertise in RF, analog, and mixed signal circuits, and with strong manufacturing and system knowledge, Realtek offers full-featured, high-performance, and competitive total solutions. More information on Realtek can be found on our web site: www.realtek.com.