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HomeRF TM Working Group

This report provides an update on the progress of the HomeRFTM Working Group, including the mission statement, membership roster, and timeline of activities. It also discusses the group's response to the WPAN and the emerging HomeRF Lite subcommittee.

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HomeRF TM Working Group

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  1. HomeRFTM Working Group 4th Liaison Report Tim Blaney, Commcepts

  2. HomeRFTM Mission Statement To enable the existence of a broad range of interoperable consumer devices, by establishing an open industry specification for unlicensed RF digital communications for PCs and consumer devices anywhere, in and around the home. Tim Blaney, Commcepts

  3. 3COM Advanced Micro Devices Aironet Wireless Communications Alps Electric Co., Ltd. Broadcom Corporation Butterfly Communications Casio Computer Corp. Cisco Systems Compaq Computer Corp. Ericsson Enterprise Networks Fujitsu Ltd. Harris Semiconductor Hewlett-Packard Company Hosiden Corp. IBM Intel Corp. Intellon Kansai Electric Co., Ltd. LG Electronics, Inc. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) Microsoft Membership Roster {Updated November 11, 1998} Tim Blaney, Commcepts

  4. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Motorola National Semiconductor NEC Corporation Nortel Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Philips Consumer Communications (PCC) Primax Electronics, Ltd. Proxim RF Monolithics, Inc. Rockwell Semiconductor Systems Samsung Electronics, Inc. ShareWave, Inc. Sharp Corporation Siemens Silicon Wave Inc. Symbionics Symbol Technologies Texas Instruments WebGear Member Roster (Cont.) Tim Blaney, Commcepts

  5. Acer America, Inc. Analog Devices Berkeley Concept Research Corp. Cirrus Logic, Inc. Diamond Multimedia Epson Research & Development, Inc. Global Converging Technologies Honeywell, Inc. Industrial Technology & Research Institute (ITRI) Interval Research Corp. I-O Data Device, Inc. iReady Corp. Kanda Tsushin Kogyo Co., Ltd. Level One Communications NDC Communications Ositis Software, Inc. Raytheon Company RF Microdevices Sawtek, Inc. S.Megga Telecommunications Ltd. Zilog, Inc. New Members 21 NEW Members Added !! Tim Blaney, Commcepts

  6. SWAP Selected 1st Components SWAP R1.0 1st Meeting 1st Products Launch MRD 1997 1998 1999 2000 HomeRFTM Timeline Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 R1.0 12/17 R0.5 6/24 R0.1 3/27 R0.9 10/29 R0.7 9/19 Launch 3/4 Part. Seminars 6/19 Part. Seminars 9/23 Tim Blaney, Commcepts

  7. HomeRFTM Response to WPAN • The HomeRF WG recently granted to a select number of individuals of the IEEE 802.11 WPAN SG the ability to review in full technical detail revision 0.9 of the SWAP-CA specification • In addition, there has been a request to inform the SG of the activities of the emerging HomeRF Lite subcommittee • Next meeting is November 20, 1998 at the Flamingo Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas Tim Blaney, Commcepts

  8. WPAN’s Review Team • The following WPAN SG members have volunteered to review the SWAP-CA rev. 0.9 specification for applicability to WPAN • Bruce Kraemer - Harris Semiconductor • Ian Gifford - AMP • Steve Shellhammer - Symbol technologies • Bob O’Hara - Informed Technology • Tim Blaney - Commcepts (liaison) Tim Blaney, Commcepts

  9. HomeRFTM Position • The HomeRF WG is interested in continuing the open dialogue with the WPAN SG, in particular with the emerging HomeRF Lite activities • The WG is open to investigating the possibility of the WPAN SG “standardizing” a version of their SWAP-CA implementation, or the emerging HomeRF Lite technology • Feedback from the SG’s review of the specification will be presented to the WG at their next steering committee meeting Tim Blaney, Commcepts

  10. HomeRFTM Lite’s Mission Statement To bring about the existence of a broad range of interoperable consumer devices by establishing open industry specifications for unlicensed, untethered peripheral, control and entertainment devices requiring the lowest cost and lowest power consumption communications between compliant devices anywhere in and around the home Tim Blaney, Commcepts

  11. HomeRFTM Lite MRD Timeline • Adoption of Mission Statement by Subcommittee (complete) • Distribution of Mission Statement for review by Steering Committee by 10/12 (complete) • Review of Mission Statement by Steering Committee by 10/19 (complete) • First Pass of MRD expected to be ready for distribution by 11/9 (Rev 0.1) • SWAP-Lite Subcommittee meeting to review MRD at Comdex • Meeting is 11/19 at the Flamingo Hilton Hotel Tim Blaney, Commcepts

  12. MRD Timeline (Cont.) • Second Pass of MRD expected to be ready for distribution by 12/14 • 0.95 Technical meeting in early December • Adoption of MRD by HomeRF-Lite subcommittee prior to Full WG meeting expected to occur in February 1999 • Submission to HomeRF reflector 2 weeks prior to meeting • Presentation to HomeRF WG for review in February 1999 • Creation of Technical Specification begins Tim Blaney, Commcepts

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