Yep..knew it was too good to be true... Got this response to my company request:
"Thank you for your interest in Mirics. At this time, Mirics is engaged with select customer engagements, and therefore is not pursuing further commercial enquiries." So why would one bother to post all of the info on a website?? Gotta wonder sometimes. Curt --- In [email protected], "mrzfrn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "captcurt2000" <captcurt@> wrote: > > > > Good Day: > > > > Just came across this recent chip set in EE TImes. It is capable from > > 150kHz-1.9GHz (albeit not contiguous) > > > > It includes a rather complete front-end and zero IF I/Q output. > > > > Looks like this might be fun to play with--I've asked for more info on > > dev kits, etc. The times article indicated that using these and some > > of their other support items, they can implement a digital tv rcvr > > frontend for $5.00 BOM. > > > > Seems quite interesting to me--anyone else seen development like this? > > > > Heres a link to a short overview. > > > > http://www.mirics.com/FlexiRF.php > > > > Cheers > > > > Curt > > KU8L > > > > Mirics Semiconductor is small company, boutique-silicon company. > Read www.thechilli.com/articles/markets/high-tech/H061_dueMirics.asp. > They are looking for high volume customer ( > = 1 Million chips). > I believe no chance to get samples or dev kit unless you are at large > company. > The tek is quite advanced , Silicon-Germanium ( probably from Jazz > Semiconductor Foundry). > Silicon-Germanium mobility is higher than pure Silicon ( maybe 3 times). > The key point is "Silicon Tuner" , tuner without discrete L,R,C , > everything on litography. > They claims 3 chips partition is the optimum for radio systems , now ( > 2008) , while other > companies are in favour of 2 chip partition. > Beside MSi001 poly-band RF tuner ( samples more then 1 year ago) they > announced > MSi2500 interface chip ( 2 ADC to read I/Q stream from MSi001 , DSP > accelerator and > USB chip ..but no spec or numbers so far ..) MSi3101 seems to be > prototipe USB dongle . > If BOM is $5 then $50-75 will be the price for such dongle. Why ? > Because > I can get from the local Supermarket $75 (euro 50) Analog/Digital TV > USB dongle > (CMOS Silicon Tuner based , like Xceive XC3028). > Mirics products seems better , covers all bands , the chip has LNA > optimized > on each band. > China Newstar Electronics (www.cdnse.com) have prototipe radio WR0608 > Mirics based , platform designed for new DRM,DAB and old AM,FM mode. > Production apparently didn't start. > > Francesco >
