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Staccato Communications and SMSC are making a joint effort to deliver two reference designs for the Certified Wireless USB market. This partnership demonstrates the interoperability of SMSC's high-performance USB hub products, including the recently announced SMSC USB MultiSwitch Hub (USB2524), with Staccato's single-chip all-CMOS Ripcord Wireless USB Device Wire Adapter solution.

The two companies are developing reference designs that will offer full turnkey, precertified design kits, including hardware, software, design files and documentation. These kits will facilitate the design implementation of SMSC and Staccato's small form factor and highly configurable solutions, enabling product developers to reduce overall time-to-market, cost and risk associated with designing Certified Wireless USB products while delivering industry-first features.

The two reference designs, based on Certified Wireless USB under development by Staccato and SMSC, are:

• 4-port Wireless USB Switching Hub--using SMSC's USB2524 USB MultiSwitch Hub and Staccato's single-chip, all-CMOS Ripcord SC3502P Wireless USB Device Wire Adapter solution, the Wireless USB Switching Hub enables peripheral sharing capability in a Device Wire Adaptor and provides both wired and wireless USB connectivity in a multi-host environment.
• 7-port Wireless USB Hub&--using SMSC's USB2507 USB Hi-Speed 7-Port Hub and Staccato's single-chip, all-CMOS Ripcord SC3502P Wireless USB Device Wire Adapter solution, the 7-port Wireless USB Hub delivers SMSC's MultiTRAK hub technology built into its USB2507 from the wired USB world to a Wireless USB DWA.

Reference designs are expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2006.