Alereon has released the Alereon AL4000-SDK Software Developer's Kit. The kit includes all of the software tools required to begin applications development for Alereon's AL4000 Wireless USB chipset: a driver, 'soft' MAC emulator, sample applications and complete documentation. Using the kit, developers are able to begin generating W-USB enabled applications before hardware becomes available later this year.

The AL4000-SDK was designed for ease of portability to the variety of PC peripheral and portable consumer products that will benefit from W-USB. Typical applications include wireless docking stations, MP3 players, cell phones, digital still cameras and photo printers. The AL4000 SDK includes both a standard Wireless USB device and Alereon's innovative Wireless-on-the-Go, which enables an Alereon-based solution to establish a connection with any other W-USB-compliant device.

The AL4000-SDK requires a PC-style x86 based hardware platform, Red Hat Fedora Core 3 Linux, and a gcc v3.4.2 Compiler. The AL4000 family of products will ultimately include the AL4100 Analog Front End integrated circuit, AL4200 BaseBand Processor, the AL4300 WirelessUSB MAC/BBP, and the AL4101-EVB WiMedia PHY Evaluation Board. Each of these products will be released in the coming months before the end of the year.

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