900-MHz RF Design Kit Helps Designers Build Wireless Peripherals

A reference design that's available free of charge shows how to use the firm's 900-MHz QuikRadio RF technology to design a variety of wireless computer peripherals, including wireless keyboards and mice. Operating in the 900-MHz ISM band, this simple implementation enables users to quickly evaluate RF products as replacements for infrared approaches to wireless peripherals. An RF implementation can be preferable because radio waves are largely non-directional while IR is a highly directional technology and therefore less reliable, its claimed.