The GLIMMR project

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 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 Title: 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