December 11, 2001
Spirea AB, a leading developer of integrated wireless solutions for the local area network (LAN) and personal area network (PAN) markets, today announced it has developed the industry's lowest cost and most efficient semiconductors for Bluetooth-enabled devices. Spirea leveraged its proprietary expertise in the RF CMOS design process to develop BlueTraC, the wireless industry's lowest cost RF transceiver chip, and BlueAmp, a power amplifier that extends the range of Bluetooth radios. Spirea will be showcasing BlueTraC and BlueAmp at the Bluetooth Developer's conference in San Francisco, CA.
"By optimizing the RF CMOS design process, we have been able to develop extremely small and low power Bluetooth components that cost far less than the industry average," said Anders Oldebäck, Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Spirea. "While the rest of the industry is struggling to produce solutions at $5, Spirea's products are poised to solution cost significantly lower."
BlueTraC is the industry's most efficient and lowest cost Bluetooth radio transceiver. It requires no external passive components, and runs with a low rate of power consumption. BlueTraC's efficient design architecture incorporates dynamic power management with a mixed signal CMOS design strategy to achieve the highest level of integration. BlueTraC is compliant with Bluetooth radio specification 1.1 and supports industry standard radio interfaces uni- and bi-directional BlueRF.
BlueAmp is a low cost, small sized power amplifier that extends the range of Bluetooth radios from 10 to 100 meters. Designed using Spirea's proprietary, optimized CMOS design process, BlueAmp is used for applications in the 2.4GHz - 2.5GHz band. BlueAmp can operate with BlueTraC and other 2.4GHz radios, and features a four level power control scheme to satisfy the Bluetooth class 1 specification.
To develop their products, Spirea enhanced the CMOS (Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) design process - the widely used and dominant semiconductor process - and created proprietary design techniques that enabled them to create inexpensive, efficient radios. These design techniques are based on 18 years of groundbreaking RF CMOS research by Spirea's founders, and represent an industry first.
The majority of the semiconductor companies developing RF products for Bluetooth use other, more costly design techniques like Bipolar/BiCMOS. While this process may produce efficient transceivers, they are also expensive, preventing the widespread adoption by OEM's and end-users of Bluetooth-enabled devices. Spirea's lower cost Bluetooth solutions will help OEM's and the Bluetooth industry as a whole, succeed.
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