CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio), today announced that its BlueCore Serial Protocol (BCSP), Host Controller Interface transport protocol, (HCI) is to be incorporated into Microsoft's Windows CE.NET operating system as part of the Bluetooth driver.
BCSP is a reliable and efficient transport protocol for the Bluetooth HCI.
Microsoft has incorporated BCSP into their latest version of Windows CE, Windows CE.NET (formerly codenamed `Talisker'). This is an integrated development environment for creating/developing smart mobile devices such as PDAs, and will allow developers to design the next generation of Bluetooth-enabled devices.
"CSR is committed to help standardize the industry to ensure interoperability between different devices and continue the widespread adoption of Bluetooth technology," said Eric Janson, vice president North America, CSR. "By including BCSP in its operating system, Microsoft is supplying developers with the tools needed to meet the increasing demand for Bluetooth-enabled devices."
BCSP offers a more advanced alternative to currently defined protocols such as H4/UART and H3/RS232. It offers error checking and retransmission to accommodate any dropped data during `wake-up', and flow control for several logical channels, while simultaneously reducing the processing overhead. BCSP allows the power consumption of Bluetooth radios to be significantly decreased in idle modes, thus increasing the battery life in handheld devices. Developers are able to link at HCI, L2CAP, RFCOMM or SDP layers, which provides further flexibility for software developers writing embedded Bluetooth applications.
"Microsoft sees the demand for lower power consumption, great cost-performance wireless protocols like Bluetooth growing exponentially," said Keith White, senior director of marketing for the Embedded and Appliance Platforms Group at Microsoft Corp. "The combination of CSR's innovative single-chip radio devices and Windows CE.NET will help ensure the interoperability and the lower total cost of ownership of Bluetooth-enabled devices."
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