Wave Issue 0201 1/11/02 Article 1-01

***Cirrus Logic to Demonstrate Multiple High-Quality Video
Streams Over Wireless Home Networks
(January 10)

Cirrus Logic has announced the Wireless Spigot reference design -
a manufacturing platform enabling the development of inexpensive
consumer devices that support multiple, high-quality video
streams on wireless home networks. The Wireless Spigot receives
networked content from a home media center and translates it back
into an analog signal so that it can be viewed on an ordinary
television. The home media center, also developed by Cirrus Logic
is a next-generation personal video recorder (PVR) that
incorporates streaming and networking functionality to let users
time-shift and use other PVR benefits on any television in the
home.

Spigot supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards to allow
consumers to play a wide selection of media on their televisions,
including MPEG-4 files that have been downloaded over broadband
connections. Using an infrared controller and the on-screen menu,
consumers can communicate from any location on their network with
a central home media server to select the content they want to
watch.

Cirrus Logic's Whitecap2 802.11b (Wi-Fi) wireless LAN technology
provides quality of service (QoS) control on the wireless
network, so that high-quality video can be viewed on multiple
televisions simultaneously wherever they are located in the home.

Whitecap2 has built-in resistance from prevalent household
interferers such as microwave ovens and cordless telephones, and
long range for maximum coverage throughout the household. It also
offers consumers features such as channel agility, which allows
wireless products to automatically change channels when there is
competition from other household appliances.

The Cirrus Logic Spigot reference design is included at no charge
with the Maestro Home Media Center reference design, which acts
as the server on the home network. The complete Maestro package
of designs for the Home Media Center and Spigot is available now
for $25,000 and includes a board, software, schematics, Gerber
files, and a bill of materials. It is available with both
Ethernet and wireless connectivity.

www.cirrus.com