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Microwaves & RF Magazine Name's Discera's Miniature Oscillator as One of the Top Products of 2003
Campbell, CA, March 2, 2004
Discera, Inc., an innovative provider of low-power micro-components for communications and electronics applications, today announced its silicon-based micro-oscillator has been selected by Microwaves & RF Magazine as one of the top products of 2003.
The annual selection, which is published in the January issue and was compiled by the editors of Microwaves and RF, focuses on products offering technical innovation and practical benefits to designers. In an editorial column, magazine editor Jack Browne wrote “…MEMS-based oscillators from Discera stand as a radical departure from existing oscillator technologies and perhaps an eventual replacement for the long-trusted quartz crystal oscillator.”
As the wireless and electronics industries seek to incorporate more functions into smaller equipment, they face a daunting rise in the number of components needed to support those functions. Lower costs, lower power consumption and miniaturization are essential to industry design efforts. Discera’s “silicon resonator” platform – near-microscopic silicon structures that vibrate at certain frequencies – offers the ability to shrink passive components in the circuitry, including oscillators, filters and switches, and ultimately to integrate them onto a single receiver chip.
Discera’s first product, the MRO-100™ micro-oscillator, is now sampling to qualified customers and offers a significant technological advantage over traditional components such as bulky quartz crystal, currently used in today’s oscillators.
The top product award recipients will be honored at a dinner during the Wireless Design Conference in San Diego on March 9.
About Discera Corporation
Discera is a fabless analog semiconductor company focusing on tiny, high performance silicon resonators for the frequency and timing control markets. The company’s PureSilicon™ resonator technology is a fundamental building block that can be used in creating fully integrated, low cost, small form factor wireline and wireless products, such as oscillators, filters, and RF components. Unlike crystal based oscillators, Discera’s PureSilicon™ based CMOS oscillators can be integrated into other CMOS based circuits. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Discera is a privately held company with investments from Ardesta, Partech, 3i, and Qualcomm Ventures. More information is available at www.discera.com.
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