National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:NSM) and RTX Telecom A/S (Denmark) have agreed to collaborate in the development of a next generation Bluetooth integrated circuit for baseband applications. National Semiconductor will manufacture and market the Bluetooth chip as part of its portfolio of wireless IC products, including the currently available first generation Bluetooth radio solution. RTX Telecom will develop Bluetooth software.
The baseband solution National is developing with RTX is based on CR16 RISC technology and offers higher performance, lower power consumption and lower cost than earlier DSP-based solutions.
Bluetooth is a communications standard developed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) to provide a short range, low cost, wireless link enabling the next generation of personal wireless appliances that can transmit both high speed data and voice. Bluetooth operates on the worldwide 2.4 MHz frequency band, which will allow Bluetooth-enabled devices to communicate anywhere in the world. In addition to National Semiconductor and RTX Telecom, approximately 1,900 companies are currently members of the Bluetooth SIG. Other member companies include Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba.
RTX Telecom is already the world leader in development work associated with DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications), another short-range wireless technology. The experience acquired from work with DECT has enabled RTX Telecom to play such an active role in the development of Bluetooth solutions.
This new agreement enables RTX Telecom to take an important step forward as regards a technology that this Danish specialist in the design of wireless communication solutions considers will provide considerable commercial opportunities in the future.
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