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News Release from: Flextronics - Short Range Wireless
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 May 2002
EIL puts IntelliBlue to good use
Hong Kong-based distributor and design house EIL has chosen the BrightCom IntelliBlue BIC2102 application processor for two important Bluetooth devices.
Hong Kong-based distributor and design house EIL has chosen the BrightCom IntelliBlue BIC2102 application processor for two important Bluetooth devices The first is a CF card designed to provide laptops and PDAs with Bluetooth connectivity
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The second is a dongle designed to connect a USB printer to a USB PC host via Bluetooth.
EIL is planning volume shipments of both products in 2002.
"When it came to Bluetooth, we were looking for a total, integrated solution", said Ronnie Kong, CEO of EIL.
"BrightCom's BIC2102 was the only chip that was truly RF-agnostic, functioned as a USB host and offered programmer-friendly APIs.
That enabled us to work with the RF vendor of our choice, design Bluetooth USB devices and cut down on software development time for quicker time to market".
"The deal with EIL validates our long-held contention that single-chip solutions, in which the Bluetooth baseband is integrated with an RF, are just not practical for many applications.
In fact, in most cases, a single chip does not have enough processing power to run core applications", added Yuval Ben-Ze'ev, BrightCom's President and CEO.
"Our approach of supplying programmer-friendly APIs for software developers is also proving effective.
EIL is using our BrightAPIs in the host configuration, meaning that minimal CPU resources are required from the host processor.
As a result, power requirements from the mobile device, and overall system costs, are reduced".
IntelliBlue application processors provide a fast and easy way to implement a wide range of Bluetooth home and office wireless applications.
This highly integrated solution reduces the bill of materials for the overall Bluetooth-enabled system and does not require any change in a customer's existing hardware or operating systems.
A single chip includes the application processor IC with all baseband functionality, software drivers for UART, PCM/CVSD, USB host and device, the complete Bluetooth protocol stack and the BrightAPI with Bluetooth profile support.
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