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Micrel and Cyan have said that they are working together on a technology partnership. The collaboration involves developing subsystem level module products.

 

‘Micrel (News - Alert) and Cyan plan to collaborate on developing subsystem level module solutions for growing and emerging global markets,” said Scott Ward, vice president for analog business unit at Micrel.

 

These products are targeted at automated meter reading infrastructure, public lighting management, Ethernet gateways and RF sensor network markets.

 

Micrel is a provider of analog, high bandwidth communications, and Ethernet IC solutions, while Cambridge, U.K.-based Cyan is a supplier of embedded processor solutions for networking and industrial control/communications.

 

“This partnership provides our customers with production ready modules complete with drivers, protocol stacks, RF mesh networking, and even embedded Web servers,” said Kenn Lamb, CEO at Cyan.

 

The RadioWire technology enables a family of low power RF enabled Ethernet/USB gateways and nodes for a range of industrial applications, Lamb said, adding that the modules are user customizable and supplied with a free graphical development tool.

 

Ward said that Cyan specializes in the development of applications using their eCOG1X and eCOG16E01 microcontroller chips. And, he said that when combined with Micrel's RF chip solutions, the partnership should produce “dynamic solutions” for customers worldwide.

 

Designed to operate in the unlicensed 433MHz ISM band, the MICRF505 is a family of single chip, frequency shift keying (FSK) transceivers that are intended for use in half-duplex, bidirectional low powered RF links.

 

Officials said that these multi-channeled FSK transceivers are targeted at ultra high frequency (UHF) radio equipment. The chips support data rates up to 200kbps and are part of Micrel's RadioWire family covering the UHF band.

 

In November 2008, San Jose, CA (News - Alert)-based Micrel announced a technology partnership with Zilog, a supplier of embedded solutions for consumer and industrial applications.