CSR Brings Bluetooth Connectivity to O2's Latest Device, the Xda Atom.CAMBRIDGE, England -- Ref: EMD EMD Electromechanical dissociation, see there 1013 Photo ref: PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) A standard for secure e-mail on the Internet. It supports encryption, digital signatures and digital certificates as well as both private and public key methods. Not widely used, work on PEM later evolved into S/MIME. See MIME. 4546 To download: http://www.csr.com/images/hires/pem4546.jpg CSR plc CSR (LSE: CSR), or Cambridge Silicon Radio is a company based in Cambridge, England whose main product line is a single-chip implementation of the Bluetooth standard for radio-signal communication between devices. CSR is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer. (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :CSR.L) the world leader in Bluetooth technology, today announced that O2's latest product, the Xda Atom, features CSR's BlueCore3 silicon and Bluetooth version 1.2 software stack (1) A stack that is implemented in memory rather than in hardware registers. See stack. (2) A generic reference to a set of system programs or a set of application programs that form a complete system. See stack. . In designing the Xda Atom, O2 used CSR BlueCore3 technology to bring robust, power-efficient Bluetooth wireless connectivity to complement the handset's wide range of multimedia and mobile office features. The new tri-band PDA-phone with GPRS/EDGE functionality went on sale in Asia Pacific in December. Billed as the smallest multimedia PDA-phone available, the Xda Atom offers the best and latest in mobile entertainment, connectivity and productivity. It features O2 MediaPlus, the first media centre designed for a PDA-phone that gives customers easy-to-use, single screen access to music, video and photo functions and libraries. The Xda Atom is also the first PDA-phone to feature an FM radio tuner and an upgraded 2.0 Mega Pixel camera with an LED strobe strobe n. 1. A strobe light. 2. A stroboscope. 3. A spot of higher than normal intensity in the sweep of an indicator, as on a radar screen, used as a reference mark for determining distance. flash that supports video capture. In order to provide users with the most flexible wireless experience possible, the Xda Atom offers both 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 and Bluetooth wireless connectivity so customers can hop online at any hotspot or enjoy music wirelessly via Bluetooth headsets. To offer users this rich multimedia experience with seamless connectivity, O2 chose to go with a Bluetooth solution that offers advanced coexistence with IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11, allowing for both wireless technologies to operate in close proximity without signal interference. The use of CSR's BlueCore3 technology and Bluetooth version 1.2 software stack brings critical Bluetooth wireless connectivity to the Xda Atom allowing users to talk handsfree using a mono headset or transfer music, photo files and video clips between the handset and other Bluetooth-enabled devices. BlueCore3 also supports advanced co-existence techniques such as adaptive frequency hopping (AFH AFH Adaptive Frequency Hopping AFH Away From Home AFH Army Family Housing AFH Air Force Handbook AFH Atlantic Fish Health (Charlottetown, PEI, Canada) AFH Administration, Finance, and Human Resources ), to ensure there is no interference with the other RF components of the handset. AFH identifies "bad" channels where there are either other wireless devices interfering with the Bluetooth signal or where the Bluetooth signal is interfering with another device. The AFH-enabled Bluetooth device will then communicate with other devices within its Piconet, to share details of any identified bad channels. The devices then switch to alternative available "good" channels, away from the areas of interference, thus having no impact on the bandwidth used. Nils Wallnas, VP Product and Service for O2 Asia Pacific commented, "For the Xda Atom, we needed our Bluetooth partner to supply a complete silicon and software product which could co-exist with the its radio function and ensure that there would be no issue of signal stability. CSR engineers worked with us to provide exactly that, allowing us to minimise our design cycle and release the product in time for Christmas." John Halksworth, Product Marketing Manager for CSR commented, "Mobile phone manufacturers will increasingly seek to integrate multiple radios into their handsets. Wi-Fi devices demonstrate the first move towards this trend and it is therefore increasingly critical that the Bluetooth radio within the handset offers robust connectivity without interfering with the other radio signals." He continued, "By adopting the advanced coexistence methods introduced by v1.2 of the Bluetooth specification, we have ensured that BlueCore offers the highest levels of coexistence available without sacrificing key features such as low power consumption." About CSR CSR plc is the leading global provider of Bluetooth technology and has developed expertise in other single-chip wireless communication standards such as Wi-Fi (IEEE802.11). CSR offers developed hardware/software solutions for Bluetooth based around BlueCore, a fully integrated 2.4 GHz radio, baseband and microcontroller. CSR has now launched its fifth generation BlueCore suite and is in volume manufacture of its fourth generation BlueCore devices. BlueCore4 supports the Enhanced Data Rate (EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) An acronym occasionally used to reflect an advancement in transmission or transfer speed. For example, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR provides a dramatic increase in speed over the previous version. See Bluetooth. ) standard, which was ratified at the end of 2004. BlueCore4 remains the only EDR silicon to be shipping in volume today. In November 2004 CSR launched UniFi, the first single chip 802.11a/b/g embedded solution specifically targeting the mobile phone and consumer electronics markets. BlueCore features in over 50 per cent of all Bluetooth devices shipped and over 60 per cent of all qualified Bluetooth enabled products and modules listed on the Bluetooth website with industry leaders including Nokia, Dell, Panasonic, Sharp, Motorola, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Apple, 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, RIM and Sony using BlueCore devices in their range of Bluetooth products. In March 2005, CSR acquired Clarity Technologies Inc., for its Clear Voice Capture (CVC See CSC. ) technology that enhances the audio performance of any voice-based product or system. Applications for CVC include wireless headsets, handsets and automotive hands free systems. In August 2005, CSR completed the acquisition of UbiNetics' software business, providing a strong R&D team to accelerate its existing software development in Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and UWB (Ultra-WideBand) A wireless technology that uses less power and provides higher speed than 802.11 Wi-Fi networks or first-generation Bluetooth products. UWB is expected to provide wireless video transmission for home theater systems, cable TV, auto safety and . The UbiNetics team gives CSR the capacity to extend its offering to mobile handset customers. CSR has its headquarters and offices in Cambridge, UK, and offices in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, India, France, Denmark, Sweden and both Texas and Detroit in the USA. More information can be found at www.csr.com and the partner web site www.btdesigner.com More information about Bluetooth technology can be found on the SIG web site at www.bluetooth.com More information about the Xda Atom from O2 can be found at SeeMightyAtom.com O2 and the O2 logo are registered trade marks TRADE MARKS. Signs, writings or tickets put upon manufactured goods, to distinguish them from others. 2. It seems at one time to have been thought that no man acquired a right in a particular mark or stamp. 2 Atk. 484. of the O2 group of companies. |
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