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Sequoia Communications’ SEQ7400 Earns 2008
Editor’s Choice Award by Portable Design
First working single-chip multi-mode RF transceiver one of three winning products in RF/Microwave category
SAN DIEGO – March 26, 2008 – Sequoia
Communications, the RF semiconductor company setting new benchmarks
in multi-mode design and integration, today announced that it
has been named a winner in the 2008 Editor’s Choice Awards by Portable
Design magazine, the engineer’s
resource for portable applications.
Over the course of each year, Portable Design staff reviews thousands
of product submissions and singles out a select few for recognition.
The publication’s editor-in-chief, John Donovan, makes the
final determination and appoints the winners of this prestigious
editorial award. Sequoia Communications’ SEQ7400 RF transceiver
was first recognized by Portable Design as its featured product
of the month in the June 2007 issue.
“This year the RF engineering market has seen a tremendous
amount of innovation,” said John Donovan, editor-in-chief
of Portable Design. “We selected Sequoia Communications’ SEQ7400
because this product is the first and only solution of which we
are aware that uniquely integrates multiple modes on a single chip,
thereby addressing critical power, size and cost issues for handset
makers.”
Originally introduced in May 2007, the SEQ7400 is based on the
company’s patented FullSpectra™ architecture, which
includes the only transmitter in the industry to use polar modulation
in all modes. The product has the industry’s highest level
of integration, makes the most efficient use of silicon area, and
has the lowest calibration burden at the phone level. In February
2008, the company announced that extensive testing verified that
the HEDGE transceiver supports HSUPA, TD-SCDMA, S-Band and GMR satellite
specifications, enabling ‘SDR-like’ flexibility without
cost or power tradeoff.
“This award is further validation of the flexibility and
differentiation that polar modulation enables,” said Dave
Shepard, CEO of Sequoia Communications. “The SEQ7400 is the
first true “flexible radio” in the industry and we continue
to validate new modes with no changes to the chip itself. This is
just the beginning!”
Past awards garnered by the SEQ7400 include the 2007 Global Handset
RF Semiconductor Product Differentiation of the Year Award by industry
analyst group Frost & Sullivan and the June 2007 Wireless Design & Development
Technology Award.
For more information about the SEQ7400, click
here.
About Portable Design
For the last 11 years Portable Design has been “the engineer’s
resource for portable applications.” Each month, Portable
Design delivers news, product reviews and feature articles focusing
on consumer electronics, portable power and wireless communications.
With editions in the US, China and Taiwan, Portable Design is the
only magazine dedicated exclusively to the interests of engineers
creating portable electronic devices. For more information on Portable
Design magazine, visit www.portabledesign.com.
About Sequoia Communications
Privately-held Sequoia Communications is a fabless semiconductor company focusing on multimode RF solutions. The company uniquely integrates different modes using a common architecture on a single chip enabling effective communications across multiple wireless standards including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, GPS, WiMax and more. Single-chip RF transceivers developed using Sequoia Communications’ innovative approach and FullSpectra™ architecture will set new industry benchmarks in chip cost, component count, PCB size and power consumption. Sequoia Communications is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information, visit: www.sequoiacommunications.com |
