Arthur D. Little Partners with Texas Instruments to Speed and Simplify Creation of Bluetooth Enabled Products.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2001 ADL's U.K. Division Joins With TI to Ease Implementation of Bluetooth(TM) Technology in Web Phones, Printers, Home Networks, and Other Embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. Wireless Applications Arthur D. Little Arthur D. Little, Inc. is the world's first management consulting firm. Founded in 1886 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist who discovered acetate, and co-worker Roger Griffin, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Arthur D. 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Incorporated (TI) that will help ease the development of products that incorporate Bluetooth wireless technology. The agreement was entered into by Texas Instruments (TI) and Mezoe, a U.K. division of Arthur D. Little (ADL) and a leading provider of development tools for wireless technologies. Under the agreement, Mezoe's Bluetooth protocol stack The set of protocols used in a communications network. A protocol stack is a prescribed hierarchy of software layers, starting from the application layer at the top (the source of the data being sent) to the data link layer at the bottom (transmitting the bits on the wire). -- BlueStack(R) -- will be combined with TI's BSN BSN abbr. Bachelor of Science in Nursing 6040(TM) point-to-multipoint hostless Bluetooth baseband solution to create a "plug-in" platform that will allow customers to more easily integrate Bluetooth technology into their products, significantly reducing time to market. Pre-porting BlueStack(R) onto TI's chipset A group of chips designed to work as a unit to perform a function. For example, a modem chipset contains all the primary circuits for transmitting and receiving. A PC chipset provides the electronic interfaces between all subsystems (see PC chipset for illustration). will form a foundation for developers of embedded products, such as Web phones and home networks. "By collaborating with TI, a world leader in wireless semiconductor solutions, we are creating another fundamental relationship in support of Mezoe's mission to make wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. easy," said Jim Schoenenberger, general manager of Mezoe. "Providing a plug-in solution that ports our software straight to TI's silicon package will make a huge difference in customers' design cycle-time." Schoenenberger said the Mezoe-TI platform also gives customers the freedom to focus their design time on the development of new and differentiated applications rather than the integration of Bluetooth technology into their products. Developers can also use Mezoe's software development tools Proto Developer (now available for a 45-day free trial at www.mezoe.com) and the Interface Express profile oriented generic toolset with the new platform. "The Mezoe-TI Bluetooth platform will ease the process of incorporating Bluetooth technology in our customers' designs," said Ari Rauch, general manager of TI's Short Distance Wireless Division. "As a result, we hope to see the development of many new products adopting Bluetooth technology." About Mezoe Mezoe provides the development tools that let companies bring the benefits of wireless technologies to their products and subsequently to their customers in a cost-effective way. Its management and engineering teams offer significant experience in the wireless communications arena, averaging 21 years in both software development and product engineering. This knowledge helps them to reduce time-to-market, risk and cost for those seeking the benefits of wireless communications. Mezoe's product range includes protocol stacks, reference designs, development tools and the knowledge transfer necessary to make it as easy as possible to use today's and tomorrow's wireless technologies. Initial products are clustered around Bluetooth, the short-range wireless communications technology that supports both voice and data connections. Mezoe's approach allows companies to develop better product, quicker, cheaper and with reduced risk. Mezoe is a division of Cambridge Consultants Limited (CCL 1. CCL - Coral Common LISP. 2. CCL - Computer Control Language. English-like query language based on COLINGO, for IBM 1401 and IBM 1410. ), Arthur D. Little's European technology arm headquartered in Cambridge, England. The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by their proprietor and used by Cambridge Consultants Limited under license. |
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