Cyan has teamed up with US analogue and RF chip maker Micrel to
develop system-level products targeted at metering, public lighting
and Ethernet network markets.
Cambridge-based Cyan will see its eCOG1X and eCOG16E01
microcontrollers combined with the MICRF505 family of single chip,
frequency shift keying (FSK) transceivers from the US company.
"This partnership provides our customers with production ready
modules complete with drivers, protocol stacks, RF mesh networking,
and even embedded web servers,” said Kenn Lamb, CEO at
Cyan.
The intention is to use low power wireless Ethernet/USB gateways
as nodes for a range of industrial applications.
“Micrel and Cyan plan to collaborate on developing subsystem
level module solutions for growing and emerging global markets,”
said Scott Ward, v-p analogue business unit,
Micrel.
The multi-channelled FSK transceivers are targeted at UHF radio
equipment in compliance with the North American Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) parts 15.247 and 249, China
Standard No. 423 and the European Telecommunication Standard
Institute (ETSI) specification, EN300 220.
The MICRF506 is designed to operate in the unlicensed 433MHz ISM
band and support data rates up to 200kbit/s.