CSR offers VoIP phone design with its UniFi chip
September 11th, 2006 - Posted in VoIPCSR today has unveiled a design for a wireless VoIP phone based on the firm’s UniFi chip.
The firm is calling the phone design UniVox and is offering schematics, layout, bill of materials and royalty-free design software. The phone design is intended for residential use with up to 20 hours talk time and 400 hours standby.
The whole reference package is royalty free and CSR intends to make its return on the offering by selling chips for the phone.
Simon Finch, v-p of the WiFi business unit at CSR, commented: “UniVox based phones are the next step in the evolution of VoIP phones that are set to replace the residential phones we use today, such as DECT.”
“We designed UniVox in the knowledge that VoWiFi phones on the market today are just too expensive and power hungry to drive wider consumer adoption. UniVox was designed from the ground up with the intention of enabling phone ODMs [original device manufacturers] to produce high quality, very low cost and low power phones for the mass market,” added Finch.
CSR said the total cost of components listed in the bill of materials is under $20 with electronic bill of materials totalling less than $15. The firm is currently sampling the design but said full production-ready designs will be ready by the end of the year.
UniFi is CSR’s 802.11b/g single-chip WiFi product with a footprint of 6×6mm. The firm has also designed its own multimedia applications processor into the phone by combining a RISC processor that has high performance DSP function, audio CODECs, echo cancellation and intelligent power management.