Atmel Corporation announced the availability of its new 2.4-GHz transceiver IC ATR2806. The new ATR2806 is especially designed for digital cordless telephone applications, but can also be used for wireless data applications such as wireless Internet access, headsets, games and home entertainment. This new low-IF device provides features such as multiple handset operation and long distance coverage due to its excellent sensitivity (-93 dBm at full data transmit bit rate of 1.152 Mbit/s).

The ATR2806 is a transceiver, which includes in the receive path a low-noise amplifier, image rejection mixer, low-IF filter, demodulator, RSSI and RX data as digital signal. It also includes a fully integrated VCO and PLL with an integrated Gaussian filter.

The IC has a interface to the baseband, so any standard DCT baseband IC can be used. Various data transmit bit rates are supported (1.152 Mbit/s and 576 Kbit/s).

To support design-in, demo boards with documentation, test results, schematics and Gerber files are also available. Samples of the low-IF transceiver IC ATR2806 in QFN32 packages are available now. Pricing starts at 4.00 US$ (10 k).