RF Micro Devices' Challenge

"RFMD can strongly recommend RTX Telecom as an outsourcing company for your next wireless product. They have very skilled engineers with knowledge in different areas of expertise," according to Rik Graulus, Senior Manager, Business Development RF Micro Devices.

"Customers don't buy chips if you can't prove functionality with a full-fledged reference design. The reference design is the final product and an essential vehicle to sell chips in the WLAN market. At Resonext, later acquired by RFMD, we developed a WLAN 802.11a and 802.11a/b/g chipsets, and at the time we were looking for a reference design partner who could help design and verify the functionality of our chipset. We needed a partner who was capable to design production-worthy products based on our chipset in parallel with our own internal chipset development, which is not an easy task. The challenge for both of us was to deliver a turn-key reference design that we could handover to customers to enable them to get into production quicker".

RTX solution

RTX delivered the following solutions for RFMD:

• Demo, reference design and manufacturing kits for 802.11a and 802.11a/b/g PC Cards

• Verification support of the 802.11a and 802.11a/b/g chipsets

• Test and calibration software for manufacturers