Atific Presents World's First Commercial FPGA Based Multi Radio Wireless Sensor Network Platform

Tampere, Finland - July 2, 2006 - Atific Oy Ltd. presents the first FPGA based multi radio wireless sensor network (WSN) platform Atific Helicopter. A complete development kit is immediately available for rapid technology adoption.

The new platform opens a new era for WSN applications with greatly improved robustness, performance and flexibility compared to other WSN platforms. Atific Helicopter has up to four Nordic Semiconductor nRF2401A 2.4 GHz radio transceivers on a single WSN node. Each radio can be independently configured to transmit or receive data from other WSN nodes purely simultaneously.

Radio transceivers are connected to Altera Cyclone EP1C20 FPGA that occupies a highly flexible multiprocessor system-on-chip platform including soft-core processors, logic for radio transceivers and space for application specific custom logic.

Atific Helicopter enables new exiting WSN applications that have not even been realizable in the past. The platform is ideal for developing and implementing demanding WSN protocols, algorithms and computing architectures. The outstanding performance allows even multi-hop video and audio streaming with the 3 Mbps throughput when all the transceivers are cascaded.

The first multi radio WSN platform product, Atific Helicopter, is available as a development kit for a jump start for companies, research laboratories and universities. The kit comes with a pre-installed reference design including source codes as well as PC terminal software. That gives a live network in a half-an-hour from unpacking the kit.

About Atific
Atific Oy Ltd was established in 2004 as a spin-off company from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. Atific Oy specializes in innovative wireless products and solutions that require reliability, security and customization for application specific requirements. For more information please go to http://www.atific.fi/en/