Quick Company Facts
Company Focus
InnoPhase IoT is a fabless wireless semiconductor platform company specializing in extreme low power wireless radio solutions. It invented the groundbreaking PolaRFusionTM digital radio architecture, a patented semiconductor that dramatically increases battery lifetime 50%+ in typical applications.
(5G cellular network products are now part of InnoPhase Inc.)
Market Focus
InnoPhase IoT is focused on developing wireless semiconductor SoCs and Modules for high volume, battery-based consumer, commercial, medical, and industrial wireless IoT products.
Founders
Dr. Yang Xu (CEO and CTO)
Locations
Headquarters in San Diego, CA with additional design and engineering sites in Kista, Sweden, and Bangalore, India.
Technology Highlights
PolaRFusionTM wireless radio platform architecture a digital centric radio has moved massive amounts of semiconductor radio's large and power-hungry analog circuits into efficient digital logic. The PolaRFusion architecture includes the advanced digital polar transceiver, an innovative flexLNA design, and a fully digital high efficiency power amplifier.
Typical Product Applications
Portable smart audio speakers, remote security cameras, sensor modules, portable patient monitoring devices, wearables and other energy critical edge-of-network wireless IoT applications that require an extreme low power direct-to-cloud connection
Product Availability
InnoPhase IoT's Talaria TWO Modules and SoC are currently in production and have completed regulatory and industrial approval. Initial products entered the market in 2019, and now multiple module products are available through our distribution channels.
Corporate Funding
The company is funded by a variety of sources including private investments and tier-one venture capital firms.
Key Technology Differentiators
Extreme low power
Offers extended battery life for cloud connected devices. Industry's only digital polar architecture, PolaRFusion, sets a new industry benchmark for low power, and maximizing battery life in energy critical wireless IoT applications.
High-level of solution flexibility
The PolaRFusion radio architecture can be applied to a wide range of industry standard wireless protocols based in software including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, NB-IoT, LTE/5G, and a host of other popular and emerging wireless standards.
Complete wireless solution integration
The efficient InnoPhase IoT digital intensive design enables the integration of almost the entire wireless solution that is found in a traditional module level product including the digital based radio, an MCU for lightweight applications, memory, I/O and RF support circuitry.
Benefits from process technology advances
The move from analog-intensive to a digital RF design means that wireless solutions can finally get onto Moore's Law Curve. Unlike traditional analog IQ radios, the digital PolaRFusion architecture will now enable radios to go to even lower levels of power use and smaller die sizes as more advanced semiconductor process nodes are used.
InnoPhase IoT Management Team
Yang Xu
CEO and CTO
Yang is an expert in low-power and reconfigurable RF circuits and systems. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Fudan University. Dr. Xu was an associate professor in the ECE department of Illinois Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the faculty at IIT, he was a senior researcher with Qualcomm.
Dr Xu has 30+ referred publications and 20+ patents. He was a recipient of the Inventor Recognition Award from the Microelectronics Advanced Research Consortium (MARCO).
Wiren Perera
President and COO
Wiren is a senior Silicon Valley executive with a proven track record managing global high technology businesses from inception to over $1B at public and private corporations. Most recently Wiren was the Global Head of IoT at Onsemi where he developed and executed a transformative strategy delivering end to end vertical solutions.
Previously, as Vice President of the LAN Solutions business and Corporate Strategy at Micrel (Microchip) he spearheaded the industry adoption of higher speed Ethernet for ADAS, infotainment and diagnostics. His prior experience includes managing the optical communications businesses at JDSU (Lumentum), spearheading the data communications business at PMC-Sierra and executive roles at multiple startups including video pioneer Stream Machine (Cirrus Logic). Wiren was the founder & principal of a firm providing strategic and business direction for many early-stage ventures.
Wiren holds a Ph.D. in Digital Signal Processing from Cambridge University.
Ken Wagner
Vice President, Engineering
Ken Wagner is an expert in SOC/ASIC design with emphasis on architectures, low power, implementation and verification. He received his MS and Ph.D. from Stanford University and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University. Dr. Wagner was an Adjunct Professor in the ECE department of McGill. He has run the Engineering teams at multiple semiconductor companies, most recently PMC-Sierra (now Microchip) and Sidense Corp.
Dr Wagner has 20+ referred publications and 12+ patents. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Golden Core Member of the Computer Society and an IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow. He was also Editor-In-Chief for IEEE Design and Test magazine.
Bill Sweeney
Vice President, Sales
Bill brings more than 25 years of executive leadership, setting overall company strategies, general business management, high-level customer relationships, and team building. Successful track record in sales, marketing, and business development in global wireless systems and device markets. Bill will drive current and next-generation InnoPhase IoT product design wins with his worldwide focus and reach.
