HSINCHU, Taiwan, JUNE 9, 2006 -- UBEC (Uniband Electronic Corp.), a Taiwan-based RF/mixed-signal IC design house, announced today that its ZigBee^TM single-chip transceiver UZ2400 and the ZigBee^TM stack co-developed with III based on its IZAP, III ZigBee Advanced Platform protocol stack, had passed ZCP (ZigBee^TM compliant platform) of ZigBee^TM Alliance. The certifications are performed by TUV (TUV Rheinland), which is a ZigBee Alliance authorized testing house.  

ZigBee^TM is a wireless communication standard featuring low cost, low power and high-flexibility network architecture. It is especially suitable for wireless sensor network adopted for home and building automation, industry control automation and AMR (automatic meter reading) applications. 

UZ2400 is a mixed-mode solution for ZigBee^TM, which includes MAC, baseband and RF transceiver integrated on a single chip. UBEC announced its mass production in March 2006. UZ2400 features the common ZigBee^TM properties of low power, low cost and flexible network. In addition, this chip uniquely integrates hardware acceleration functions such as CSMA-CA, automatic ACK, 128-bit AES security engine and Superframe architecture that efficiently decrease the MAC/PHY driver requirements with fewer flash/ROM memories required. 

UBEC has completed certifications of both hardware and software ZigBee^TM platform. The certified transceiver IC (UZ2400) and protocol stack provide clients a reliable platform for various ZigBee^TM applications. The certification also ensures interoperability between UBEC’s and other ZigBee^TM certified platforms and accelerates the acceptance of compliant products in industrial and commercial markets. UBEC is excited to have developed products that enable such innovative possibilities in wireless applications and strives to continue providing products, solutions and best services for this emerging market. 

About Uniband Electronic Corporation (UBEC Corp.) 

UBEC is an international fabless semiconductor company specializing in the design and manufacture of ICs for wireless applications. With its headquarters in Hsin-Chu Taiwan and an office in Silicon Valley, U.S.A. UBEC offers various RF solutions tailored to our customers' and partners' needs. Our mission is to develop high quality products with competitive price-and-performance ratio and time-to-market advantages for our customers. Being "customer-oriented" has always been the spirit of UBEC's people and at UBEC customer always comes first. For more information, visit the UBEC website at www.ubec.com.tw .

 About Institute for Information Industry (III)
The Institute for Information Industry (III) was established in 1979 as a non-profit organization, jointly sponsored by the Taiwan government and dozens of prominent private enterprises, for the purpose of strengthening Taiwan's information industry development. III's unique success in a well-architected collaboration between the government and private sectors has drawn great attentions worldwide. Today III is increasingly involved in international collaboration projects, bringing the benefits of its highly trained and experienced technology staff and management professionals to ICT projects across the globe. Current research areas at the Networks and Multimedia Institute (NMI), which is part of the III, NMI develops innovative technology, integrated systems or advanced applications, including wireless sensor networks such as IZAP and IEEE802.15.4 related research fields. 

* ZigBee^TM is a trademark of ZigBee Alliance. Other trademarks are property of their respective owners.