LitePoint

LitePoint is a wireless test company. The company’s hardware and software can be used to verify quality of wireless connectivity in smartphones, tablets, PCs, wireless access points and chipsets across WLAN and cellular technologies, including 5G, Bluetooth, Low Power Wide Area (LPWAN), NFC, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, UWB, V2X and Zigbee. LitePoint claims it works with all of the leading chipset companies.[2]

LitePoint
TypePublic
IndustryWireless Test
FoundedApril 28, 2000 (2000-04-28) [1]
FoundersBenny Madsen, Christian Olgaard and Spiros Bouas
Headquarters
San Jose, California
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United States
ParentTeradyne
Websitehttps://www.litepoint.com/

The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional North American offices in Arlington Heights, Illinois and San Diego, California, as well as global offices in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Denmark and Israel. LitePoint is a wholly owned subsidiary of Teradyne, a developer and supplier of automatic test equipment (ATE).

History

LitePoint was founded in 2000 by co-founders Benny Madsen, MSEE, PhD and Christian Olgaard, PhD and Spiros Bouas. In 2011, LitePoint was acquired by Teradyne. In 2014, the company claimed it had supporting test equipment for 300 cellular and wireless connectivity chipsets.[3] In 2019, LitePoint moved their headquarters from Sunnyvale, California to their present location in San Jose.[4]

Work with FiRa Consortium

In 2019, LitePoint joined the FiRa Consortium,[5] an organization aimed at facilitating the evolution of UWB wireless technology and fine-ranging (FiRa) technology. When the consortium formed, LitePoint was the only test vendor, [6] joining other consortium members including Bosch, Samsung and Sony. [7]

Awards

In 2013, the company’s IQxel-160™ connectivity test system won the EDN China Innovation Award as the product leader in communications testing in the Test and Measurement category.[8]

References
  1. "LitePoint Corp". Bloomberg. Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  2. "Executive Interview: Brad Robbins, President of LitePoint". Microwave Journal.
  3. "Test and Measurement: LitePoint, Cobham Wireless and more". RCR Wireless News.
  4. @litepoint (3 June 2019). "New Look. New Location. Same Wireless Test Expertise. Visit LitePoint in our new San Jose location or at litepoint.com" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. "Episode 229: Check out this new location tech for IoT". IoT Podcast.
  6. "Reviving UWB: FiRa Consortium steps up". RCR Wireless News.
  7. "Sony and Samsung resurrect ultra-wideband to improve location tracking". Engadget.
  8. "EDN China Recognizes LitePoint Innovation". Business Wire.
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