Redpine Signals

Redpine Signals
Private
Industry Semiconductor, wireless
Founded 2001 (2001)
Headquarters San Jose, California, United States
Key people
 Venkat Mattela, CEO
Number of employees
 500-600
Website Redpine Signals

Redpine Signals is a fabless semiconductor company that started its operation in 2001.[1] The company makes chipsets and system level products for wireless networks.[2] It serves the Internet of Things and wireless embedded systems market, enabling all volume levels of chipsets and modules.[3]

In 2005, Redpine Signals developed a low power 802.11 b/g chipset, which it licensed to a semiconductor company for use in its product or SoC as a wireless interface.[3] The company established a single stream 802.11n Wi-Fi product in 2007 for handheld devices.[3] In 2012, Redpine Signals developed a simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi 11n/BT 4.0 + 5 GHz MIMO 11ac convergence SoC for smartphones and tablets.[4] The company also introduced a simultaneous dual-band 450 Mbit/s 3x3 802.11n chipset for digital home and enterprise applications.[3]

Products and Services

Redpine Signals' products include single stream 802.11abgn chipsets and modules, and system products for Wi-Fi based Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS).[5][6] The company also offers 'Wi-Fi Starter Kits' that include Redpine Wi-Fi Interface cards integrated with microcontroller development kits from partnership companies.[7]

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There is an open-source device driver mainlined in the Linux kernel for some rsi91x hardware that uses the mac80211 framework.[9] Other drivers are documented in Comparison of open-source wireless drivers.

References

  1. ↑ Paultre, Alix. "The Tinker's Toolbox - Venkat Mattela of Redpine and Øyvind Strøm of Atmel on Wireless Embedded Systems", ECN Magazine, 26, October 2011.
  2. ↑ "Redpine Signals Selected as a 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Americas Tech Startup Winner ", PR Newswire, 30, May 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Swamy, Vimali. "Redpine Signals: Disrupting the Wireless Industry", Silicon India, 3, November 2011.
  4. ↑ "Dual-Band Wireless SoC from Redpine Signals", Sensors Magazine, 20, May 2012.
  5. ↑ Love, Janine. "WiseMote RTLS tags serve Wi-Fi apps", EE Times, 9, April 2012.
  6. ↑ "WiseMote RTLS tags serve Wi-Fi apps", PR Newswire, 3, April 2012.
  7. ↑ McConnel, Toni. "Atmel and Redpine Signals enable ultra-low power 802.11n Wi-Fi for AVR and ARM-based MCUs", EE Times, 28, September 2011.
  8. ↑ Michelle Sieling *In 2013, Redpine Signals launched a multiprotocol Wi-Fi, dual mode BT 4.0, and Zigbee chipset and modules for the IoT and handheld devices market.
  9. ↑ "Linux kernel: /drivers/net/wireless/rsi".

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