Research & Development Overview
Unication Research & Development Facilities
- Unication has the following Research and Development Facilities:
- ‧ Taipei, Taiwan
- ‧ Vancouver, B.C., Canada
The three facilities above focus on different technical areas and cooperate jointly to develop products, all in order to meet the customers’ needs.
Unication Taipei R&D Facility
- ‧ Located at Unication Taipei corporate office
- ‧ 150 engineers
- ‧ Design expertise includes:
- RF design, BB design, Mechanical design, Pager & embedded device, Software, Broadband(Internet & multimedia products) Software, Manufacturing Engineering, and most have more than 15 years experience
- ‧ Products designed include:
- ‧ Analog 2-way trunked & conventional Mobile radios
- ‧ Advanced 2-way Messaging Devices
- ‧ Proven track record of designing Public Safety Voice pagers for Motorola Pocsag and Flex™ 1-way pagers for U.S. Telecommunication operators
- ‧ GPS tracking devices
- ‧ Paging Base station transmitters & receivers
- ‧ GPS RF base station Control products
- ‧ Linear RF repeaters for cellular and paging
- ‧ RF design and protocols for infrastructure
- ‧ Trunking protocols
- ‧ Design For Manufacturing (DFM)
Unication Vancouver R&D Facility
- ‧ Located at Vancouver, Canada
- ‧ 21 engineers
- ‧ Products designed include:
- ‧ Digital and Analog 2-Way Mobile Radio development & manufacturing (software based multi-protocol – Trunked and conventional, DTMF, IMTS, SMART, 2805, digital, etc.)
- ‧ Wireless terrestrial & satellite based telephone line extender voice and data radios
- ‧ Digital Radio (DSP) based handheld wireless device products (2-way messaging and GPS tracking devices)
- ‧ Integrated DSP, RF and Network Assisted/Differential GPS tracking devices
- ‧ RF Base Station products: High specification FM, Linear transmitters and receivers (ReFLEX, Paging,Wideband linear multi-carrier, FM transmitters, diversity digital receivers, GPS based control products)
- ‧ 2-way Trunking, analog processing for 2-way radio, ReFLEX™, FLEX™, Analog processing (pre/de emphasis, compandors, expandors, tone generation/detection, etc.) digital Voice Compression
- ‧ End to end wireless system design including Fractional T1 2.4 GHz spread spectrum radio products
- ‧ Wireless Infrastructure/Applications (Wireless Internet content, Wireless Email, Wireless Messaging, Vertical Applications)
Unication R&D Facility – Core Competencies
- ‧ Engineering Core Competencies
- ‧ DSP and Embedded Software Development
- ‧ RF design
- ‧ Digital Hardware design
- ‧ Embedded Antenna design
- ‧ PCB CAD design
- ‧ Industrial Design
- ‧ Mechanical design
- ‧ Product ALT (Life Test) Qualification
- ‧ Design Quality Assurance Automatic Test Design
Unication R&D Facility – Software Design Tools and Technologies
- ‧ DSP processors:
- Analog Devices, TI, Lucent DSP1616, M68K, ARM Processors, Cold Fire, MIPS3000, MIPS4000, Xscale, X86 embedded
- ‧ DSP software design:
- signal processing algorithms, modems, demodulators, Processors, Cold Fire, MIPS3000, MIPS4000, Xscale, X86 embedded modulators, equalization techniques, timing and carrier recovery, receivers for multi-path fading environments, echo-cancellers, efficient multi-tasking of algorithms
- ‧ Voice processing: low bit rate coders, CCITT toll quality coders, effective
- ‧ background noise suppression algorithms for telecommunication systems
- ‧ Real-time embedded s/w design:
- Assembly for above DSPs/Controllers, C, C++, efficient embedded RTOS design, device drivers, battery management and control, RF noise management algorithms
- ‧ Wireless Protocol design, OTA provisioning algorithms
Unication R&D Facility – Hardware Design Tools and Technologies
- ‧ Handheld integrated RF & DSP Digital low power designs
- ‧ Acoustic designs for analog 2-way mobile radios
- ‧ RF design of LNAs, Mixers, Modulators, Demodulators, switches, attenuators, amplifiers in the 30 MHz to 5.8 GHz range
- ‧ Low current, low phase noise synthesized oscillators (30 MHz to 5.8 GHz)
- ‧ Design of very high speed ADC’s and DAC’s circuits interfaced to RF circuitry
- ‧ DSP based AGC and AFC loops in RF transceivers
- ‧ Multi-processor designs (h/w and s/w)
- ‧ DSP & digital circuit ASIC design expertise
- ‧ Expert PCB layout skills for mixed signal high volume RF designs
- ‧ Battery management for handheld products
- ‧ Handheld embedded antenna designs
- ‧ Radio system link budget design
- ‧ Network interface : Ethernet 802.3u (100/1000M), Wi-Fi 802.11g/a/n (54/108M)
- ‧ Automatic test design for DVT approval
- ‧ Automatic test design for Mfg support
- ‧ Hardware Development Tools: Mentor, Pantheon, OrCad, HPADS, Pspice, Ansoft, Eagleware, VHDL
Unication R&D Facility – Mechanic Design Tools and Technologies
- ‧ Professional Industrial Design
- ‧ Plastic, Stamped Metal, Rubber Parts Design…
- ‧ Double Injection Plastic Design
- ‧ Plastic with Rubber Key Pad Design
- ‧ Paint Processing, Vacuum Plating, Hard Cr Plating Design
- ‧ Laser Mark Decoration Design
- ‧ RP Mock-up Sample
- ‧ Mechanical packaging for products
- ‧ Mechanical Design Tools: Pro-E SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Finite Element and flow analysis tools
