Oki Electric, Integration enable ZigBee one-stop-solution

Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd and Integration Associates have announced a one-stop solution for ZigBee, considered the next-generation low data rate wireless network technology. The one-stop solution consists of Oki's LSI, the ML7065, and the ZigBee Stack by Integration.

The solution has received ZigBee compliant certificate from the ZigBee Alliance, and will be available globally in December 2005 from Oki and Integration. Oki provides and supports the CompXs ZigBee Stack in Asia, including Japan, while Integration provides and supports the ZigBee Stack in North America and Europe.

By incorporating Integration's technology, Oki developed its industry-first IEEE802.15.4 compliant LSI that includes a 2.4GHz RF, physical layer (PHY) and a Media Access Control layer (MAC) in a single chip, and started volume production in June 2005. Because the ML7065 includes the MAC layer, the backbone of the communication function, it reduces the required host CPU performance and memory, enabling Oki to provide a low cost, minimum resource ZigBee solution.