Fabless semiconductor supplier WiQuest Communications, Inc. has unveiled two new products based on the certified wireless USB technology from the USB Implementers Forum. The DWA 4-port Hub and HWA dongle reference design kits are based on WiQuest’s recently announced WQST110 and WQST101 UWB chipset. These new reference design kits will enable equipment manufacturers to build complete device wire adapter (DWA) and host wire adapter (HWA) solutions from a pair of robust reference platforms. Both product configurations provide wireless performance with standard WiMedia data rates from 53 Mbps to 480 Mbps.

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WiQuest’s HWA dongle, based on certified wireless USB, is a cost-effective, highly integrated design that provides wireless UWB high-speed services to existing wired USB devices. The HWA dongle reference design is also suitable for embedded designs. WiQuest’s Hub, also based on certified wireless USB, is a cost-effective design for mobile and portable systems to communicate wirelessly with standard USB peripherals including printers, scanners, hard disk drives, keyboards and mice.

Both reference design kits include hardware and software. The hardware portion includes a working adapter sample along with schematics, layout source files, a detailed bill-of-material, design manual, user’s guide and a quick-start guide. Depending on the particular configuration, the software package includes HWA driver/firmware and DWA firmware. It also includes a Microsoft Windows-based utility that supports device discovery, field upgrade functionality, comprehensive diagnostics and the newly-defined wireless USB association models.