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News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor | Subject: Bluetooth platform solution
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Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector has come up with a comprehensive Bluetooth platform solution.
Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector has come up with a comprehensive Bluetooth platform solution The company claims the platform provides a V1.1 compliant Bluetooth solution with exceptional performance, high-quality audio, certified interoperability and 802.11b coexistence, as well as embedded software, development tools, and reference design kits
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Motorola's platform is designed to accelerate development of high-performance Bluetooth solutions for application in cell phones, personal digital assistants, headsets and other systems that can benefit from Bluetooth communications.
This platform represents only the first of a family of products for the Bluetooth market.
Future solutions are planned to provide specialised platforms for targeted markets, and Motorola is enabling greater integration of Bluetooth IP core into host processors.
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This IP core integration of Bluetooth baseband functions into a system processor will allow low cost implementation and will speed the adoption of Bluetooth by the general market.
Bluetooth wireless technology is a key value-added feature in Motorola's wireless portfolio, including the innovative convergence family of wireless platforms for manufacturers of mobile devices and the DragonBall family of applications processors.
Motorola is also one of the companies providing leadership in the standards and definition of high rate Bluetooth 2 technology that will provide more than 10Mbit/s transfer speeds while still being low power.
Key to the performance of this Bluetooth platform are recent Motorola inventions, which allow efficient implementations of joint detection and maximum likelihood sequence estimation (JD/MLSE) technology.
Motorola's novel JD/MLSE data demodulation technology enables a robust link near 802.11b WLAN connections - and other sources of interference in the public ISM band, such as microwave ovens and cordless phones.
It provides greater range, more capacity, and improved quality compared with "bit slicing" based radios.
This greater range means improved service availability, while increasing the service coverage area by up to 16 times.
The additional capacity means that throughput is maintained in high-density Bluetooth environments such as airports, shopping malls and other public places.
Motorola system solution is expected to be one of the first implementers of SIG endorsed adaptive frequency hopping (AFH) technology.
Motorola is one of the drivers of the technology definition in the Coexistence Working Group.
AFH is expected to increase the throughput for both Bluetooth and 802.11b networks operating in the same proximity by minimizing destructive mutual interference.
Based on Motorola's third-generation Bluetooth architecture, the Bluetooth platform comprises: the V1.1 compliant baseband processor with Bluetooth standard host controller interface; the MC13180 V1.1 compliant RF BiCMOS transceiver, Bluetooth Class 2; the MRFIC2408 V1.1 power amplifier, for Bluetooth Class 1; the MC13181 power-management IC for headset and cellphone accessories; V1.1 compliant embedded Bluetooth software; a development kit for rapid prototyping and development; and a reference design kit.
The Bluetooth Qualification Board has certified the highly integrated MC13180 RF BiCMOS transceiver.
Qualification improves the level of interoperability with other Bluetooth products and reaffirms Motorola's commitment to driving Bluetooth adoption by providing certified products to the industry.
In a separate release, Extended Systems, a leader in commercial software stacks, has announced that its Bluetooth software stack will support the Motorola platform.
Additionally, tools are available from Motorola to simplify the use of proprietary stacks with the platform.
Motorola has working silicon today and expects to sample the platform solution with development kits to customers in the first quarter of 2002.
Production is planned for the second quarter.
The chipset comprising this Bluetooth solution is expected be available at a suggested list price of $5.90 in million-unit volume.
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