HSINCHU, Taiwan, Aug 18, 2006 - UBEC (Uniband Electronic Corp.), a Taiwan-based RF/mixed-signal IC design house announced today that its LNA IC -- UA2725 working with Asia Fortune Electronic’s (AFE) USB dongle for DVB-T applications had passed BSMI certification. The USB dongle consists of UBEC’s LNA IC UA2725, and Maxlinear’s Tuner, Zarlink’s Demodulator and USB controller. The items tested include BSMI Item 4.5 – Performance with Adjacent Channel DVB-T interference, BSMI Item 4.6 – Multipath Interference and BSMI Item 4.7 – Impulsive Interference tests. At present, BSMI is the most rigorous DVB-T performance test in the world and the Taiwan DVB-T industry has scheduled to meet this standard in 2008.

UA2725 is a 3.3V wideband LNA IC optimized for operation from 0.05GHz to 4GHz with internal input/output matching, and available in a 6-pin SOT363/SC-70 plastic package. There are two gain steps control using UA2725, for small signal, the gain is 20 dB at 2.2 GHz and P1dB is over -1.5dBm at 2.5GHz, while for large signal, UA2725 can perform 18dB attenuation and iP1dBm is over 0 dBm.  UA2725 is unconditionally stable and consumes only 40 mW of power.

In the near future, DVB-T product would become the mainstream and have a dramatically boost in the market. Therefore, passed BSMI test, UBEC’s UA2725 IC can provides more reliable applications on DVB-T products and other potential wireless applicability, and the best products, solutions and services.

About Uniband Electronic Corporation (UBEC Corp.) 

UBEC is an international fabless semiconductor company, headquartered in Hsin-Chu Taiwan, specializing in the design and manufacture of ICs for wireless applications. 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, please visit the UBEC website at www.ubec.com.tw .