ACAL Technology and Integration Associates Inc in distribution agreement

ACAL Technology will provide specialist design support and inventory of Integration’s popular EZ family of products, which includes the latest EZLink USB dongle which integrates a fully-compliant 802.15.4 wireless interface and the CompXs ZigBee protocol stack into many platforms such as computers, gateways and bridge devices. Integration’s wireless products also include the popular EZRadio® family of wireless transmitters, receivers and transceivers which are commonly used extensively in point-to-point, star, and mesh networks for consumer and industrial applications.

For wired applications such as dial-up computer modems, set-top boxes, point-of-sale terminals, PBX, VoIP and multifunction peripherals, Integration’s EZ DAA (Distributed Application Architecture) V.92 and optical chipsets provide worldwide programmability with a distinct price/performance advantage.

The EZSwitcher™ power management ICs include highly-integrated LDOs and converters designed to help customers to reduce bill-of-material costs and board-space.

Nick Dutton, Integration’s Director of Customer Marketing, explained, “ Although our products are designed to provide high levels of integration and simplify design, ACAL’s expertise in network development across a wide range of sectors, can deliver insights which can help even the most experienced customers minimize development risk and bring sophisticated products to market, faster.”

ACAL’s Martin Kemp, RF & Wireless European Product Manager, explained, “Adding wired or wireless connectivity to existing and next-generation products is the biggest opportunity, and the biggest challenge, for many of our customers. Integration’s products are field-proven and give us even more scope to deliver
end-to-end support for customers developing commercial and industrial networks.”

ACAL Technology’s product range supports proprietary and standard wireless platforms based on as ZigBee, MiWi, infrared and Radio Frequency (RF) connections, as well as wired networks using USB, TCP/IP, Ethernet Can or LIN. The range includes popular embedded and external device servers and modems, PIC-based RF modules, RF and microwave filters, frequency generation and frequency control devices.