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Micro Linear to Demonstrate Interactive Digital Wireless Audio and Video at Wireless Systems Design Expo (9/3/2004)

Company Expands Wireless Applications & Portable Handset Focus

Micro Linear Corporation (NASDAQ:MLIN) will be demonstrating its cost-effective wireless streaming media solution in booth #118 at the Wireless Systems Design Expo in San Diego. Visitors will witness interactive full-motion video and audio as it is transmitted live over a radio link using one of the company's low cost wireless transceivers. Micro Linear believes its proprietary wireless products offer higher data rate, longer range, higher Quality of Service (QoS), longer battery life and lower cost than standards-based solutions. Manufacturers of powered speakers, home theatre systems, wireless headphones, security systems, wireless microphones and many other portable products can benefit from the freedom of spectrum choice as well as the ease of design that Micro Linear's products offer.

Micro Linear will also be showing several proven radio reference designs for low power and long-range applications at both 2.4GHz and 900MHz. These designs should reduce risk and time to market for our customers implementing the company's high quality radios into their products. The company's flagship product; the ML5800 5.8GHz digital wireless transceiver, will also be on display. All of Micro Linear's transceivers (ML5800 at 5.8GHz, ML2724 at 2.4GHz, and ML2722 at 900MHz) are easy to design with, since they provide the required active circuitry for transmit, receive, and frequency synthesis in a single surface mount package.

All of these devices are programmable over a simple serial interface by an inexpensive microcontroller or application-specific baseband processor. The 1.5 megabit-per-second (Mbps) data rate minimizes latency and offers high fidelity while closed-loop modulation allows virtually unlimited transmit duration, which is well suited for highly asymmetric (or even unidirectional) streaming media applications. The radios are frequency-agile and can avoid narrowband interference, unlike SAW-based designs.

Micro Linear CEO and President, Tim Richardson commented, "Our streaming media demonstrations clearly speak to Micro Linear products' superior value in many wireless applications beyond our strong position in the domestic cordless telephone market. Through these demos, reference designs, and our substantial new product development activities, Micro Linear is applying and proving its expertise to many different wireless applications including global portable communications products."

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