CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) today announced that Xircom Inc., the leading provider of mobile information access solutions, has chosen to use the CSR BlueCore(TM)01, a single-chip Bluetooth solution, for its first-generation Bluetooth products.
Xircom Bluetooth products will enable multiple intelligent devices -- PCs, laptops, handheld devices, phones and digital cameras -- to communicate without cables, using the short-range radio technology.
"The selection of CSR's single-chip solution enables Xircom to bring Bluetooth products to market in our small innovative form factors," said John DiGiovanni, Director of Marketing at Xircom.
In addition to Xircom, several other industry leaders have selected BlueCore01 for their Bluetooth designs, including Fujitsu Media Devices, Alcatel, ALPS Electric and Tochigi Mitsumi. The chip's high level of integration -- other solutions comprise separate ICs for the baseband and RF circuits -- provides major size, cost and time-to-market efficiencies that are enabling a whole range of Bluetooth applications to be realized.
"We are delighted to be working with Xircom to develop innovative Bluetooth products using our single-chip solution," said Glenn Collinson, Marketing Director at CSR. "We work closely with our customers to ensure their devices are easy to use and interoperable with other Bluetooth products."
CSR's BlueCore01 integrates both radio and baseband circuits for a 2.4GHz Bluetooth solution in a single chip. It is implemented in CMOS technology and together with an external Flash ROM; it provides a fully compliant Bluetooth system for data and voice communications. The design is optimized to require very few external RF components, to allow a rapid design of the motherboard, and therefore the fastest possible time-to-market at the lowest overall cost.
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