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Terocelo Lycon(TM) Chip Chosen By the Electronic Science Research Institute's Centre for Microphotonic Systems

Posted on: Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 09:01 CDT

Terocelo Inc., an industry leader in software defined radio solutions, today announced the Centre for Microphotonic Systems (COMPS) in Perth, Australia has purchased their SiGe True Software Radio® chips and Evaluation Platform for designing a Phased Array Receiver. The future system is expected to consist of hundreds of individual antennas whose signals will be sent through Terocelo's Lycon™ chip after digitization and transmission through fiber optic links.

COMPS chose Terocelo's proprietary True Software Radios® due to its ability to be tuned solely by software command over a wide frequency range and its performance of Radio Frequency-to-Digital (RF-D) conversion at high data rates. "We were impressed with Terocelo's True Software Radio® chipset because it is software programmable, handles multiple wireless protocols, and enables a wide frequency band to be captured in a small form-factor solution," said Professor Kamal Alameh, Director of COMPS.

Terocelo will continue to provide COMPS with updated chips from its Lycon™ semiconductor family in the future. The next generation Lycon™ chip is anticipated for Spring 2008, as the company will be releasing its 65nm CMOS chip, which will run five protocols, multiband from 80 MHz to 3.7 GHz, codenamed Saura. "This is an exciting opportunity for Terocelo, as we look to extend our technology to support centers of research and development worldwide. COMPS is facilitating high level collaboration between leading international research teams by arranging access to state of the art research facilities. We look forward to continuing to support their research and moving forward with Saura when it is released," said Ronald Hickling, co-inventor of True Software Radio® and Terocelo's Chief Technology Officer.

For more information about Terocelo, Lycon™ chips, and the Centre for Microphotonic Systems, visit http://www.terocelo.com or http://comps.ecu.edu.au

About Terocelo Inc.

TechnoConcepts Inc. (OTCBB:TCPS)(Frankfurt: UYE.F) does business as Terocelo Inc. Terocelo is in the business of designing, developing, licensing and marketing technology focused in the communications marketplace. Terocelo is positioned in the high-growth, wireless communication market, having developed breakthrough, disruptive technologies. These technologies can be integrated into many high-volume commercial markets, including cell phone, automotive, base station, Femto/Pico Cell, and First Responder markets.

The company has developed and patented True Software Radio®, a proprietary technology that creates convergence for the wireless industry. True Software Radio® has produced the Lycon™ family of wireless transmitter-receiver chipsets, designed to enable cell phones, PDAs, laptops, and infrastructure with different radio frequencies, standards, and protocols to adjust by software command so that they can communicate across otherwise incompatible networks, without the need for multiple radios. Lycon™ chipsets replace the front end, I/F processing, ADC, and digital filtering sections of radios. Because the technology simplifies design and reduces component costs, the company believes that Lycon™ and True Software Radio® are ideal platforms for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) to develop new wireless broadband, mobile data, cellular, and other next-generation wireless applications.

About Electron Science Research Institute, Centre for MicroPhotonic Systems

COMPS is a Western Australia Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems, part of the Electron Science Research Institute (ESRI) at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. The Centre's mission is to provide the highly specialised technical know how and research needed to trigger a dynamic and vibrant MicroPhotonic industry to develop in Western Australia by facilitating high level collaboration between leading international research partners and by arranging access to state of the art research facilities.

MicroPhotonics is the electronic frontier for the 21st century that will advance many key industries. It is impossible to visualise a future information technology without the development of the photonics industry. MicroPhotonics has the potential to improve information systems and image-processing technologies vastly. Speed, immunity to interference, increased bandwidth, parallel information processing abilities and enhanced data-storage capacity are some of the advantages of working with light. MicroPhotonics has an enormous range of applications in the information, communication, precision apparatus, medical service, security and energy sectors. Photonics is an enabling technology. The science of photonics exist in home lighting, in radio and clock displays, in televisions, CDs, computers and many other appliances. It also plays a vital role in automotive technology, telecommunications, the Internet, medical diagnostics and treatment, and radio astronomy. With such a broad range of applications, the size of the global photonics market is exceptionally large. The broad industry is projected to reach US$705 billion in 2008.

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Source: Business Wire

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