CSR Bluetooth-Enables USI's WiFi/Bluetooth Combo Module for Handheld Devices.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Bluetooth Congress, Amsterdam RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2003 CSR (1) (Customer Service Representative) A person who handles a customer's request regarding a bill, account changes or service or merchandise ordered. Agents in call centers are known as CSRs. See call center. (Cambridge Silicon Radio), the world's leading single-chip Bluetooth company today announced that its Bluetooth technology, BlueCore, is being used in a new combination WiFi and Bluetooth module from Taiwanese manufacturer Universal Scientific Industrial Co Ltd (USI). The module, which benefits from the low power consumption and small footprint of CSR's BlueCore, is targeted at consumer handheld applications such as PDAs, Smartphones, digital cameras, camcorders and printers. The USI combo module measures a compact 22x29 millimetres and is intended for embedding directly into the handheld device. Given the proximity of the Bluetooth and 802.11b radios, the module employs CSR's channel skipping technology, minimizing interference between the Bluetooth and 802.11b radios and improving the throughput of the Bluetooth radio by as much as 50 percent over solutions that rely on MAC level signalling. Combining both wireless technologies into one card allows a notebook PC, for example, to connect to a wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area using the faster 802.11b technology, and at the same time, to lower power Bluetooth peripherals (e.g. printers, mice and keyboards) or mobile handsets or to synchronize See synchronization. PDAs. USI is incorporating Agere Systems' WaveLAN(TM) 802.11b wireless networking See wireless network. chip set in the combination Bluetooth/Wi-Fi module. "Wireless users want the freedom to move untethered Unattached to any data or power source by wire or fiber; in other words: wireless. Contrast with tethered. without losing their connection," said C.Y. Wei, Corporate Senior V. P. and General Manager of USI's Communication Business Group. "Our module combines two key wireless technologies -- 802.11b and Bluetooth -- to enable even greater data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. and connectivity options for mobile applications. Moreover, USI's design expertise and manufacturing capacity offer customers total solutions to differentiate their products by quick time-to-market, best performance and desirable quality." Eric Janson, worldwide vice president, marketing, CSR commented, "Because CSR silicon includes the full feature set of the Bluetooth specification and delivers the best Bluetooth performance in terms of coexistence with WiFi radios, our BlueCore technology is the standard choice for such combination designs." About CSR CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) is the world-leading provider of single-chip radio devices for Bluetooth wireless communication. CSR offers developed hardware/software packages for each of the fastest growing Bluetooth applications markets which are all based around BlueCore, a fully integrated 2.4 GHz radio, baseband and microcontroller A single chip that contains the processor (the CPU), non-volatile memory for the program (ROM or flash), volatile memory for input and output (RAM), a clock and an I/O control unit. . BlueCore features in 60 percent of all qualified Bluetooth v 1.1 enabled end product designs with international names such as Microsoft Corp, Panasonic, Audi, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Toshiba, Samsung and Sony already using BlueCore in their range of Bluetooth products. CSR is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with offices in Richardson, Texas Richardson is a suburb in Dallas County and Collin County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 91,803, while according to a 2006 estimate, the population had grown to 99,200. ; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore and Aalborg, Denmark. More information can be found at www.csr.com and the partner web site www.btdesigner.com More information about Bluetooth can be found on the SIG web site at www.bluetooth.com More information about USI can be found at www.usi.com.tw. |
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