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SUMMARY
Summary Ultra-Wideband (UWB) presents attractive opportunities, primarily for fastvideo transfer between peripheral devices, such as digital camcorders, TVs, andPCs, and between set top boxes and TV monitors. With the high-bandwidth gap leftby Wi-Fi in the home networking space, UWB is seen as the wireless technologythat can deliver the bandwidth and QoS that many consumer electronics companieshave been looking for to enable sending multiple video streams throughout ahome. UWB supporters have been working toward a standard, and commercialsolutions, since the FCC allowed its use in February 2002. Standards issues are being played out in a political arena involving theIEEE, Freescale, MBOA, and the WiMedia Alliance. Faced with constantstandard-setting delays, MBOA members and Freescale are not waiting for theseissues to be resolved. The stakes are too high with so much R&D and personalexecutive capital already invested. Rather than wait for standards to beapproved by the IEEE, both plan to move forward with product rolloutsirrespective of the standards-disputes. UWB proponents have also made headwaytoward providing UWB as the PHY and MAC for the upcoming wireless USBspecification, which is expected to help drive UWB into more end products. The technology, standards, organizations, comparisons to other technologies,vendor profiles, forecasts by application, chipset price and revenue for2004-2008 are included in this report. TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Executive Summary
- Methodology
- Introduction & Overview
- What is UWB?
- UWB's Basic Characteristics
- Interference
- Less Complexity
- Ranging & Positioning
- Low-Cost Chipset Structure
- Low-Power
- What is Multi-Band?
- Modulations
- PPM
- PAM
- OOK
- M-ary
- BPSK
- QPSK
- OFDM
- Multiple Access Techniques
- History of UWB
- The FCC's Ruling on UWB
- Opposition
- Standards Development
- UWB as PHY for High Bit-Rate WPANs
- Task Group 3a: Primary Camps
- MAC-centered Multilane OFDM
- UWB as PHY for Low Bit-Rate WPANs
- UWB PHY & MAC for Wireless USB
- UWB-related Organizations
- WiMedia Alliance
- MultiBand OFDM Alliance (MBOA)
- UWB vs. Other Wireless Interfaces
- Comparison to PAN
- Comparison to Wireless LAN
- Why IEEE 802.11x Backers are Working Frantically on ImprovingMultimedia Capabilities
- Proprietary - Magis Networks
- Target Markets
- UWB Roadmap
- Home Entertainment
- Residential Proximity Detectors
- Tracking
- Automotive
- Military
- Law Enforcement/Rescue
- Global Interest
- Forecasts
- Worldwide UWB Node/Chipset Forecasts
- Home Theater
- Point-to-point connections between devices
- Digital Cameras and Camcorders
- Bridge Between PCs and CE Devices
- UWB Chipset Forecast by Application
- Worldwide UWB Chipset Average Sales Price & Revenue Forecast
- Vendor Profiles
- Alereon
- Artimi
- FOCUS Enhancements
- Freescale Semiconductor
- General Atomics
- Intel
- NEC Electronics America
- Philips Semiconductors
- PulseLINK
- Staccato Communications
- Texas Instruments
- Time Domain
- Wisair
- UWB Player Matrix
List of Tables - Table 1. Wireless LAN and PAN Standards Matrix
- Table 2. UWB Roadmap
- Table 3. UWB Worldwide Node/Chipset Shipments by Application (Units inThousands)
- Table 4. UWB Worldwide Chipset Average Sales Price & Worldwide Revenue(ASP $, Revenue $M)
- Table 5. UWB Player Matrix
List of Figures - Figure 1. UWB Signal Compared to Narrowband Transmission
- Figure 2. Multi-Band Depiction of UWB Transmission
- Figure 3. Band Group Allocation For MB-OFDM Band plan
- Figure 4. The Vision of a Common UWB Platform: Multiple Applications CanRun over the Same Radio Platform
- Figure 5. 1st UWB Product Roll-Outs
- Figure 6. UWB Worldwide Nodes/Chipsets by Application (Units in Thousands)
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