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The Gigabit Low-cost Integrated Millimeter-wave Radio (GLIMMR) project, is a project that was the brainchild of [[Neil H. E. Weste]] and was focused on the research and development of a single-chip 60 GHz transceiver with integral antenna.

Neil's vision for the commercial space that such a chip would fulfill was for short high-data rate links, for applications such as transfer of video from a mobile device to a computer or for wireless backup of large amounts of data. Neil envisioned this as an extension of the Bluetooth concept to very high data-rates and dubbed this new paradigm ''Bluefang''.

The original team was [[Anthony Parker|Anthony E. Parker]], [[Derek Abbott]], [[William G. Cowley]], and [[Neil H. E. Weste]] who together successfully applied for an [[ARC Linkage Grant]] LP0560715 entitled ''Millimetre Wave Communication Systems for Consumer Applications.''  The ARC component of the funding was $450,000 per annum for three years 2005-2007. The total cash funding including contributions from partners and the ARC was $1.6 million.





LP0560715 A/Prof AE Parker; A/Prof D Abbott; Prof WG Cowley; Prof NH Weste
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2005 : $450,000
2006 : $450,000
2007 : $450,000
Category: 2909 - ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
APA(I) Award(s): 4
Partner Organisation(s)
NHEW R&D Pty Ltd
Peregrine Semiconductor Australia Pty Ltd
Cadence Design Systems
Administering Institution: Macquarie University