Aug 1, 1996 12:00 PM

PCSI, San Diego, will begin offering a chip set for pACT (personal air communications technology), a narrowband PCS technology for wireless paging and two-way messaging applications. Sample quantities are expected to be available in the third quarter of this year and volume production in the first half of 1997.

pACT is an open protocol that allows carriers to increase system capacity as demand dictates. It also provides a migration path to a variety of high-volume, low-cost, advanced data messaging applications, such as acknowledgment paging, two-way messaging and telemetry. PCSI's chip set will allow pACT subscriber device manufacturers to produce small, low-cost personal communications devices with long battery life.

The three-component chip set consists of a control processor IC, a modem IC and a radio IC. Along with the chip set, PCSI provides a radio reference design, the pACT protocol stack and a software development platform designed to shorten original equipment manufacturer time to market.

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