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CSR and Canon i-Tech Cooperate on a Range of Bluetooth Development Kits.


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RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2003

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 in Bluetooth silicon, and Canon i-tech, the leading Japanese software production company, have agreed to jointly provide complete Bluetooth solutions to their customers. As part of CSR's Partner Program, Canon i-tech has worked with CSR to commit to providing a series of development kits to enable customers designing Bluetooth products the fastest route to market. The Canon PF-6070HFP HFP Healthy Families Program
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 (Hands Free Profile) and the Canon PF-6070PAN (Personal Area Network) are the first development kits to be launched as a result of this agreement and are now available.

By combining CSR's expertise in Bluetooth silicon with Canon i-tech's experience in Bluetooth software, the partnership is set to provide customers with the highest performance complete Bluetooth solution on the market. Already, the two companies have worked together to produce the PF-6070HFP and the PF-6070PAN, enabling consumer and automotive electronics manufacturers a fast and easy route to market. CSR's BlueCore chip united with Canon i-tech's UQB-Blue software will include the Bluetooth stack A Bluetooth stack refers to an implementation of the Bluetooth protocol stack.

Bluetooth stacks can be roughly divided into two:
  1. General-purpose implementations that are written with emphasis on feature-richness and flexibility, usually for desktop computers.
, profiles and customer application specifications all on-chip.

Canon i-tech's President, Sadasuke Kurahayashi, commented on the partnership, "By combining Canon i-tech's extensive experience in developing built-in devices in the domestic market, with the cutting edge technology of CSR, the global leader in Bluetooth single-chip solutions, we look forward to continually providing our customers with products and services that meet the diversity of their needs."

Eric Janson, worldwide vice president, marketing, CSR added, "A large and growing network of third parties around the world have chosen CSR's single-chip Bluetooth solution, jointly enhancing our businesses." Janson continued, "With this combined expertise our customers can accelerate their development efforts and cut time-to-market. Canon i-tech has demonstrated its commitment to Bluetooth through its track record of product development, and its level of Bluetooth engineering resource."

The CSR Partner Program is creating the most comprehensive collection of alliances with companies that can enable the most advanced and complete Bluetooth solutions. The third-party products offer a broad range of application software, development hardware and software and consulting services that will assist customers in accelerating their development efforts and reduce time to market.

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

About Canon i-tech, Inc.

Canon i-tech, Inc. is a design house that provides embedded networking and imaging system technologies for digital devices. In the field of 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.
, Canon i-tech develops Bluetooth and WLAN See wireless LAN.

WLAN - wireless local area network
 technologies.

The "UBQ-Blue(R)" one-stop service series offers customizable solutions for Bluetooth product development, including development kits, development support tools, protocol stacks, and even product development. The etymology etymology (ĕtĭmŏl`əjē), branch of linguistics that investigates the history, development, and origin of words. It was this study that chiefly revealed the regular relations of sounds in the Indo-European languages (as described  of the word "ubiquitous", from which UBQ-Blue(R) derives its name, comes from a Latin word meaning "anytime, anywhere", "omnipresent om·ni·pres·ent  
adj.
Present everywhere simultaneously.



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", or "visible far and wide". The name "UBQ-Blue(R)" infers that Bluetooth technology can be used at any time, and in any place.
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