As of March 7, 2012, Ubicom, Inc. was acquired by Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. Ubicom, Inc. develops communications and media processor, and software platforms for applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. The company provides system-level solutions for a range of products, including wireless routers, access points, VoIP gateways, streaming media devices, print servers, and various network devices for networking and media processing. It serves original equipment manufacturers of wireless networking access products and devices. Ubicom, Inc. was formerly known as Scenix Semiconductor, Inc. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Ubicom (and as Scenix) designed several families of microcontrollers, including:
The SX Series of 8-bit microcontrollers, a product line which was partially compatible with Arizona Microchip devices and ran at up to 100 MHz, single cycle. This product was eventually sold to Parallax.
The IP series of high performance media and Internet processors. These devices were designed to act as gateways for streaming media and data over wired and wireless links.
The Scenix/Ubicom processors relied on very high speed and low latency processing to emulate hardware interfaces in software such as interrupt-polled soft-UARTS. This reduced the size of the silicon chip and therefore the cost, but increased the complexity of the software required on the chip.
