EDA Solutions, 58 Botley Road, Park Gate, Southampton, SO31 1BB, UK T: +44 (0) 1489 564253 F: +44(0) 1489 557367 E: info@eda-solutions.com W: www.eda-solutions.com Based in Shef?eld, UK, Jennic is at the forefront of the emerging market for chips for low-cost wireless sensors and actuators. According to analyst Frost & Sullivan, this market is set to explode over the next few years as home and industrial networking systems move to low- cost wireless technologies. The main standards in this market are IEEE802.15.4 and Zigbee, which provides a standard software stack for sensor nodes to use. Thanks to the increased level of standardisation in what has been a highly fragmented market, Frost & Sullivan said the market for chipsets alone would grow from just $18.8m in 2004 to $700m

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