Jim Crawford Joins Sequoia Communications as Senior Fellow; Industry Veteran with Expertise in...

SAN DIEGO -- Sequoia Communications, the RF semiconductor company setting new benchmarks in multi-mode design and integration, today announced that Jim Crawford has joined the company as a senior fellow. He brings to Sequoia Communications over 20 years of extensive, hands-on experience with technology

development and technical management of communications-related systems and products for commercial consumer applications. Crawford has significant background with cellular telephones, cable modems, OFDM-based wireless communications, detailed RF systems engineering, telemetry and ranging applications, and a wide range of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) disciplines.

"Jim has a broad range of experience in launching and growing businesses and technologies in the wireless industry," said CEO Dave Shepard. "He is well known and respected in the technical community and, as we ramp up the development of the innovative multi-mode RF transceivers, Jim will be a valuable asset to Sequoia Communications."

Prior to joining Sequoia Communications, Crawford's extensive entrepreneurial positions include: Co-Founder and CEO/President of Silicon RF Systems, Co-Founder, CTO and former VP of Engineering at Magis Networks, and over 10 years of independent industry consulting. In previous years, Crawford held staff engineering positions at TRW, M/ACOM Linkabit, and Hughes Aircraft Company.

"I have joined Sequoia Communications to be a part of the team that is delivering fundamental breakthroughs in RF transceiver technologies," said Crawford. "I believe Sequoia Communications' transceivers will empower next-generation phones through unprecedented levels of integration and multi-mode capabilities."

Crawford was an independent consultant to Sequoia Communications for much of the year prior to joining Sequoia Communications full-time. When asked about this, he said, "The technology being developed and the quality of the team at Sequoia Communications were too good to pass up."

Crawford has worked as a system engineer on many communication system developments, and he holds over 30 assigned plus filed U.S. patents in digital signal processing, waveform design including an emphasis in OFDM, and frequency synthesis. Crawford received his MSEE from USC, and is the author of "Frequency Synthesizer Design Handbook" (1994).

About Sequoia Communications

Sequoia Communications is a fabless RF semiconductor company setting new benchmarks in multi-mode design and integration. The FullSpectra(TM) common architecture, developed by Sequoia Communications, allows a single-chip transceiver to support multiple air interface protocols -- enabling effective communications across numerous wireless standards, including WCDMA, EDGE, GSM/GPRS, GPS, WiFi, WiMAX, and more. The company recently announced SEQ5400, a single-chip WEDGE (WCDMA, EDGE, GPRS, GSM) transceiver, the industry's first multi-mode chip using a common architecture. The line of single-chip, multi-mode RF products created by Sequoia Communications will address the three key handset metrics: lowering cost, reducing size, and increasing battery life for mobile devices. For more information, please visit: www.sequoiacommunications.com