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News Release from: Cambridge Silicon Radio | Subject: BlueCore5-FM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 November 2006
Single-chip Bluetooth raises range and
datarate
The BlueCore5-FM claims the highest Bluetooth performance on the market, offering connectivity of up to 3Mbit/s and unrivalled output power of +10dBm.
CSR has announced the qualification of the world's first Class 1 Bluetooth single-chip solution The BlueCore device is part of the company's 5th generation silicon and is also the first product from the BlueMedia roadmap, incorporating a sensitive FM radio receiver in a small, single-chip design
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Available in 4 x 4mm WLCSP or 6 x 6mm VFBGA packages, BlueCore5-FM features the highest performance Bluetooth on the market today, offering connectivity of up to 3Mbit/s and unrivalled output power of +10dBm.
This allows the device to easily cover the 100m range required for a Class 1 Bluetooth radio without the need for an external amplifier - all within a PCB footprint of only 39.2mm2.
BlueCore5-FM has been designed specifically for mobile handsets and consists of an FM receiver operating at the thermal noise floor of -111dBm and CSR's enhanced datarate (EDR) BlueCore radio.
As a single-chip solution, BlueCore5-FM offers double the functionality without taking up valuable space on the circuit board, and also reduces the analogue component count and total BOM compared with the dual-chip alternative.
Interference free, BlueCore5-FM allows the Bluetooth and FM radios to work independently of each other or in tandem, for example, streaming FM radio from a handset over a Bluetooth connection to a pair of stereo headphones.
According to Matthew Philips, Senior VP Mobile Handset Connectivity Strategic Business Unit: "It's no longer simply a question of integrating a number of different functions within a handset".
"These days it's about whether designers can implement high-end functionality without blowing the budget on an expensive BOM or wasting valuable PCB space".
"BlueCore5-FM sets a new benchmark for the industry in terms of both functionality and performance".
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