Unication Research & Development Facilities

‧ Unication has the following Research and Development Facilities:

    ‧ Vancouver, B.C., Canada
    ‧ Taipei, Taiwan
    ‧ Guanghzhou, China

Above four facilities focus on different technical areas and cooperate jointly to development products 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 Project Management Glenayre Technologies Inc.,
      and most have more than 15 years experience

‧ Products designed include:

    ‧ Analog 2-way trunked & conventional Mobile radios
    ‧ Advanced 2-way Messaging Devices
    ‧ Pagers
    ‧ 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
    ‧ FLEX™ & ReFLEX™

Note: ReFLEX, FLEX are Trademarks of Motorola, Inc.

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 Project Management

‧ Products designed include:

    ‧ Proven track record of designing Public Safety Voice pagers for Motorola
      Pocsag and Flex™ 1-way pagers for U.S. Telecommunication operators

    ‧ GSM & Wi-Fi PDA design
    ‧ Personal voice recorders
    ‧ Design For Manufacturing (DFM) according to Motorola Quality Standards

‧ Wireless Board Band Product:

    ‧ GPS tracking devices
    ‧ Wi-Fi AP Router with hardware encryption
    ‧ Digital Home Server Platform
    ‧ Digital Media Player
    ‧ VoIP TA
    ‧ Gateway
    ‧ Broadband Multimedia servers
    ‧ VoIP servers
    ‧ Wi-Fi VoIP handheld phone

Unication Guanghzou R&D Facility

‧ Located in Guanghzou (near Hong Kong & Shenzhen)
‧ 85 engineers (primarily software)
‧ Software expertise for handheld devices including:
    ‧ Linux OS PDA: full set of PIMs including, Outlook synchronization, MP3 players,
      Calendar, Wi-Fi VoIP (SIP) etc
    ‧ Microsoft PC Utilities: Wireless messaging device backup/restore and Outlook
      Synchronization for Microsoft XP, Windows 2000, etc.
    ‧ Drivers including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, QVGA LCDs
    ‧ Application PIMs for wireless messaging devices

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