CSR and Cypress Semiconductor Co-Develop Industry's Lowest-Cost Bluetooth Adapter For USB-Enabled Peripherals.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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. & SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2003 First Embedded USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. OTG-to-Bluetooth Solution Allows Users to Print Without Turning on the Host PC 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 Bluetooth technology leader, and Cypress Semiconductor Cypress Semiconductor is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It began operations in 1982 and listed publicly in 1986. Two years later, the company shifted over to the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, (NYSE: CY). Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY), the industry leader in USB, today announced that they have jointly developed the industry's lowest-cost solution for true ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. Bluetooth connectivity for off-the-shelf USB-enabled peripherals. The result is CSR's USB Bluetooth printer adapter example design, which enables a total bill of materials The list of components that make up a system. For example, a bill of materials for a house would include the cement block, lumber, shingles, doors, windows, plumbing, electric, heating and so on. of under $15, bringing together CSR's BlueCore(TM) Bluetooth chipset and Cypress's USB On-The-Go (OTG (1) See USB OTG. (2) (The OBJECTive Technology Group, Ltd., Alexandria, VA) An organization that was devoted to distributed computing and object technology. Founded in 1994, it augmented the object and Internet standards community and served as an intermediary between ) semiconductor technology. CSR's Bluetooth printer adapter example design is available now from www.csr.com/products/examples.htm The printer adapter design allows standard USB-enabled printers to receive and print Bluetooth data from laptops -- or eventually PDAs, digital cameras or mobile phones -- without turning on the printer's host PC. In time, the design will be applied to other USB peripherals, such as storage devices, web cams and audio speakers, creating a range of affordable, host-free wireless connections between Bluetooth and USB devices. CSR is already providing samples of its complete example design to several manufacturers worldwide, and is expecting volume quantities of products featuring the technology to be available in Q4 this year. "Products that address both consumer and business markets will help move Bluetooth into a pervasive stage," said Joyce Putscher, director, at high-tech market research firm In-Stat/MDR. "Technology, such as the wireless printing solution from CSR and Cypress, can accelerate this process by offering Bluetooth wireless connectivity and building upon standard USB ports." "This is the first marriage of Bluetooth and USB of its kind," said Paul Novell, managing director of Cypress's Wired Business Unit. "The fact that CSR, the world leader in Bluetooth, has selected Cypress for this project speaks volumes about their recognition of Cypress as an industry leader in USB." Eric Janson, worldwide vice president, marketing, CSR added, "We are happy to be working with other technology leaders such as Cypress to deliver new and innovative solutions to our customers -- a list which already includes more than 130 companies making over 60 percent of the Bluetooth products on the market." Janson continued, "Having combined USB technology from Cypress with our own BlueCore Bluetooth technology, we have enabled an entirely new range of Bluetooth printer adaptors ideal for ad hoc communication." CSR and Cypress's new USB-to-Bluetooth adapter plugs into standard USB printer A printer that plugs into the USB port of a computer. See USB. ports, and the technology may eventually be integrated into printer designs. Cypress's EZ-Host(TM) USB controller inside the adapter acts as "host," mediating data "traffic" between the portable device and printer. CSR and Cypress are developing the technology to ensure full compatibility with all USB-enabled printer makes and models and other USB devices. 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. 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. In June 2003, CSR launched the third generation BlueCore devices, the first silicon with full support for v1.2 of the Bluetooth specification. CSR is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with offices in Richardson, Texas; 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 Cypress USB Cypress's EZ-Host (CY7C67200) is a multi-port controller featuring two individually configurable two-port serial interface engines (SIEs) and a configurable I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output block that can connect to numerous standard interfaces. The product features 16-Bit RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. controllers, large memory and low power, and is targeted at wired devices, ranging from DVD players, set-top boxes, Internet appliances and print servers. Cypress offers the industry's broadest portfolio of low-, full- and high-speed USB devices and development tools. Products include integrated microcontrollers for hosts, hubs and peripherals, as well as individual devices such as wired and wireless transceivers, serial interface engines and bridges. This broad portfolio enables designers to choose between the benefits of using an integrated solution or supplementing their own designs with key Cypress devices. About Cypress Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:CY) is Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch, and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital, and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. , and DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing . Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers, and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions, and programmable microcontrollers. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. Cypress, the Cypress logo and EZ-USB are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. "Connectivity from Last Mile to First Mile" and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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