SPiDCOM Technologies was a

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-based company that specialized in

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and Linux-based software bundles for Multimedia Home Networking and other wire based applications . MStar Semiconductor acquired SPiDCOM in November 2011.

Products

Radomir Jovanovic founded SPiDCOM in September 2002 as subsidiary to a group that included ELSYS Design in

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, where the initial project started. Known as a

fabless semiconductor company Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or ''fab'') to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. These foundries are typically, but not exclu ...

, SPiDCOM designed

system-on-a-chip A system on a chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that combines most or all key components of a computer or electronic system onto a single microchip. Typically, an SoC includes a central processing unit (CPU) with memory, input/output, and dat ...

integrated circuit An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...

s and

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based firmware for computer network communications over wires such as electrical power,

coaxial cable Coaxial cable, or coax (pronounced ), is a type of electrical cable consisting of an inner Electrical conductor, conductor surrounded by a concentric conducting Electromagnetic shielding, shield, with the two separated by a dielectric (Insulat ...

s, and telephone lines. Applications included audio and video

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ing,

Internet access Internet access is a facility or service that provides connectivity for a computer, a computer network, or other network device to the Internet, and for individuals or organizations to access or use applications such as email and the World Wide ...

(often called "broadband"), and energy conservation. Its first product was the SPC200 launched in 2005, and the SPC300, announced in 2009. A reference design was announced in 2010.

Standards

SPiDCOM participated in standardization efforts inside international regulatory and standards bodies, such as the

European Telecommunications Standards Institute The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, not-for-profit, standardization organization operating in the field of information and communications. ETSI supports the development and testing of global technical ...

, the

Home Gateway Initiative The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) was a nonprofit trade organization to discuss the key specifications and standards of residential gateways, also known as home gateways. It was founded by telephone companies ( Belgacom, BT, Deutsche Telekom, ...

and

IEEE 1901 IEEE 1901 is a standard for high-speed (up to 500 Mbit/s at the physical layer) communication devices via electric power lines, often called broadband over power lines (BPL). The standard uses transmission frequencies below 100 MHz. Th ...

. SPiDCOM had a board member of the

HomePlug Powerline Alliance HomePlug is the family name for various power line communications specifications under the HomePlug designation, each with unique capabilities and compatibility with other HomePlug specifications. Some HomePlug specifications target broadband ap ...

. OMEGA was a project, funded from 2008 through 2011 by the

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, to develop a 1 Gbit/s home network over power lines, radio wireless and optical wireless. SPiDCOM participated with the OMEGA Project, leading the powerline communication work package.

References

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External links

SPiDCOM Technologies website
Fabless semiconductor companies Semiconductor companies of France Power-line communication Internet access French companies established in 2002