The article is not written clearly for me to get enough information on exactly where ZeroG wants to do this, but the idea smacks of building into wireless systems an ability for "things" like operations equipment and monitoring devices to operate across an 802.11b channel.
So, basically your office equipment, from a coffeepot to a copy machine operating without an OS on a wireless architecture. Hello, business and caffe latte by phone!
The company hopes to find design wins in a wide variety of embedded systems from coffee pots and toys to sensor networks in building and industrial automation. It estimates that market could amount to as many as nine billion sockets.
The company's ZG2100, built in 180nm process, supports up to 2Mbit/s data rates. It includes a baseband, media access controller, power amplifier and hardware acceleration for Wi-Fi security standards such as WEP, WPA and WPA2.
The chip uses a host controller to run part of its code. It requires as little as 367bytes of RAM and less than 10Kbytes of ROM from a host micro-controller, according to the company. It can run without an OS.
ZeroG will also ship the chip as part of a module, the ZG2100M, which includes required passives and an integrated antenna. The company has struck a partnership with Microchip Technology Inc. so that its module will support Microchip's existing Internet Protocol (IP) software, tools and development kits.
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