Resonant expands licensing agreement with existing Tier One customer

GOLETA, Calif. – Resonant Inc. (NASDAQ: RESN), a designer of filters for radio frequency, or RF, front-ends that specializes in delivering designs for difficult bands and complex requirements, announced it has signed an additional licensing agreement with an existing Tier One customer.   

The new license agreement encompasses the development and licensing of an integrated module, which will include both a duplexer and quadplexer in a single module. The agreement means that this Resonant customer has seven (7) products in development based on the company’s patented technology and design tools.   

The design will utilize chip scale packaging (CSP) as well as wafer level packaging (WLP) for use in a single module. Design acceptance milestone payments and royalty terms have been agreed upon, but will not be disclosed due to the confidential nature of such agreements.   

The design will dramatically reduce the board footprint. The quadplexer will combine four separate frequency bands for increased data rates into a single miniature package and will feature a single antenna connection, eliminating the need for antenna switching. Quadplexers enable carrier aggregation (CA), where multiple frequency bands are combined for higher data rates – a key feature of LTE-Advanced. However, the design complexity for these multiplexers is dramatically increased, which has so far limited quadplexer availability. Quadplexers in a small footprint are being driven by the ongoing demand for smaller, lighter and thinner mobile devices with increasing video capabilities.  

“Our software tools, IP libraries and advanced design capabilities continue to expand to meet the needs of our customers. We believe this new license agreement demonstrates our customer’s confidence in our ability to design complex and competitive RF front-end filters, and now integrated filter systems for modules, that we believe can be developed in less than half the time and manufactured at approximately half the unit cost of traditional designs,” said Terry Lingren, CEO and Co-Founder of Resonant Inc. “As the complexity of our designs scale, we are expanding our product portfolio to significantly higher-value products, and in turn, our future licensing potential.”

Source: Resonant® Inc.