BSQUARE Reveals New Tools for Bluetooth Wireless Technology

New Product Allows Seamless Integration of Bluetooth Capabilities for Windows CE and Windows NT

BSQUARE Corporation (Nasdaq:BSQR) announced today the availability of its new toolkit, Bluetooth(TM) Extension to WinDK(TM).

The Bluetooth Extension enables developers to seamlessly attach their Bluetooth hardware to a tested and robust Microsoft Windows(R) Bluetooth stack. The new Bluetooth Extension to WinDK is a device driver development toolkit used for quickly developing hardware and protocol drivers for Bluetooth implementations based on the Digianswer A/S Bluetooth Software Stack. The new Bluetooth Extension to WinDK greatly reduces the time and effort to integrate new Bluetooth hardware and protocols into these platforms.

"Bluetooth is powerful new technology that we anticipate will be adopted by developers of many different types of computing devices," stated Paul Lever, director of Platform Technologies for BSQUARE. "Our WinDK product has had great success because it significantly reduces the development time and time to market for hardware and software developers. By adding this extension to the existing library code of WinDK, developers wanting to add Bluetooth capabilities will be able to spend much less time dealing with complex operating systems issues such as Plug and Play and Power Management and spend more time bringing their Bluetooth solutions to market."

The Bluetooth Extension to WinDK consists of a set of driver development tools for seamlessly integrating Bluetooth hardware on Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 2000, Windows NT(R) 4.0, Windows NT Embedded and Windows 98. Support for Windows CE will be in an upcoming release. The Bluetooth Extension to WinDK allows developers to leverage the tested Digianswer stack to enable any Bluetooth hardware on a Windows platform.

Additional features of the Bluetooth Extension include:

-- Supports the development of hardware drivers for USB, PCI and PCMCIA buses, as well as serial interfaces

-- Enables hardware developers to use other supported bus types with no unnecessary restrictions

-- Supports access to the hardware using any combination of Port

I/O, Memory I/O, interrupts and DMA.

The Bluetooth Extension to WinDK contains two important driver samples: a Hardware Driver sample for the Digianswer Bluetooth Demo PC Card and a Protocol Driver Sample. The Hardware Driver sample contains a console (DOS prompt) user-mode test application that exercises the driver's upper-level interface. The sample demonstrates the basic NT/WDM hardware features such as Port I/O, Memory I/O, and interrupt processing. This sample is source-code compatible for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows 98.

The Protocol Driver Sample contains a console user-mode test application that exercises the driver's upper-level interface. This sample demonstrates the use of the protocol driver lower-level interface (L2CAP's upper-level interface), the use of a driver-specific upper-level interface and basic NT/WDM layered driver features such as building and sending IRPs and completion processing.

Price and Availability

Beta release of the Bluetooth Extension to WinDK is available immediately and final release will be available early summer through BSQUARE and authorized distributors worldwide for an estimated price $14,995.00 USD.


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