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News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor | Subject: i.250-21 feature phone reference design
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Team on 23 February 2004
Big guns collaborate in phone reference
design
Motorola has teamed up with other technology specialists to help manufacturers significantly reduce the development time of enhanced multimedia feature phones.
Motorola has teamed up with other technology specialists to help manufacturers significantly reduce the development time of enhanced multimedia feature phones The i.250-21 feature phone reference design, based on Motorola's i.250-21 platform, includes rich multimedia and connectivity features for GSM and GPRS handset developers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The reference design provides connectivity with USB and Bluetooth wireless technology to allow data transfer between phones and other compatible devices.
The design includes BVRP Software's mobile PhoneTools application, which enables consumers to easily input their personal information manager data, to send messages using SMS, and to send e-mails using a PC's full-sised keyboard.
With the feature phone reference design and PhoneTools, users also will have the ability to synchronise phone books and copy selected files between phones and PCs via an easy-to-use graphical interface.
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In addition to the connectivity and multimedia applications supported on this reference design, the Motorola i.250-21 feature phone reference design also supports advance wireless application software such as the latest Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), and Wireless Application Profile (WAP) 2.0 Browser.
Motorola is leveraging the products of a number of leading technology providers to deliver a "ready-to-customise" solution to ODMs and OEMs.
Cambridge Silicon Radio and Motorola have teamed up to enable Bluetooth connectivity on the i.250 feature phone reference design by combining CSR's RFCMOS Bluetooth single chip BlueCore and the Bluetooth upper stack from Motorola.
With this approach, Motorola is introducing an optimal solution, balancing sise, cost, power consumption and performance into the cellular handset.
This provides developers a flexible turnkey solution allowing a substantial reduction in time-to-market for final products.
The reference design includes Motorola's Common Camera Framework (CCFW), a software framework designed to support various camera module solutions.
With the CCFW, OEMs and ODMs can easily integrate a camera into phone designs.
The CCFW enables the i.250-21 feature phone reference design to be integrated with an image solution from CoreLogic, capable of supporting imaging functions such as VGA and 1Mpixel resolution.
With CoreLogic's camera image processor, users can also capture video in high quality formats such as motion JPEG and MPEG4.
Other advanced features such as soom and continuous shot provide users a true camera feel.
In addition, CoreLogic acts as an I/O peripheral to the baseband processor, thereby reducing baseband power consumption.
The i.250-21 design provides a feature-rich man-machine interface (MMI) solution for OEMs and ODMs to quick-start MMI customisation and further development.
A customisable MMI application is accompanied by e-SIM's Rapid Plus - an MMI development tool that shortens development time by providing a simulation environment resembling the phone user's actual operational experience.
The feature phone reference design's MMI, along with e-SIM's flexible software architecture allows customers to add distinctive user interface style, sophisticated animation and colourful backlights to phones.
Customer applications can also be ported to the reference design easily via an application service library (ASL).
With increasing consumer demand on mobile games, the ability to support 3D graphics is critical.
HI Corp's Mascot Capsule Engine is a compact software engine that enables real-time rendering of 3D graphic applications on mobile handsets.
HI Corp's Mascot Capsule Engine is optimised to run 3D graphics on Motorola's Innovative Convergence i.250-21 feature phone reference design using Motorola's application service library.
Hynix is a leading supplier of high quality CMOS sensor devices to the mobile market.
The CMOS sensor in the i.250-21 feature phone reference design is a smart sensor device controlled by the camera processor in the Motorola CCFW.
General image processing functions such as gamma correction, colour interpolation, colour correction, colour space conversion, auto exposure and auto white balance are implemented on the sensor to enhance and sharpen images.
The i.250-21 feature phone reference design software architecture enables integration and deployment of different displays by encapsulating the display driver functionality in a standard application program interface (API).
With Solomon Systech's display IC technologies on LCD and organic light emittance display (OLED), i.250-21 enabled handsets provide an attractive display.
These display IC technologies consist of highly integrated chips designed to support the i.250 baseband processor's direct memory access control (DMAC) protocol and open the display window for all mobile communication devices.
Solomon Systech's display IC technologies include families of monochrome, grey scale and colour STN, TFT and OLED controller driver integrated circuits.
These technologies help to reduce system cost and power.
They vastly speed time to market with minimal external components and a 2D graphic engine that reduces the instruction set for display graphic control.
STMicroelectronics' memories are being optimised on the i.250-21 platform, allowing customers to quickly begin development of handheld devices.
Mobile phones require maximised performance and minimised cost and power as well as reduced package sise.
Flash memories from STMicroelectronics are tailored to meet those precise needs with features such as: compact, energy-saving NOR-type advanced architecture Flash memory solutions with asynchronous and synchronous read modes.
The i.250-21 feature phone reference design software architecture provides a flexibility to allow OEMs and ODMs to integrate various leading MIDI integrated circuits.
Yamaha is collaborating with Motorola on the i.250-21 platform design to enable high quality MIDI functionality including Synthetic music Mobile Application Format (SMAF), which enhances ring-tone quality and sound effects for games and other applications.
The reference design is capable of supporting Yamaha's latest 64 polyphonic solution.
The i.250-21 platform combines a chipset that is Edge-receive and GPRS Class 12-capable, with a field-proven GSM/GPRS software stack, reference designs and development tools, as well as test environments and services.
The i.250-21 feature phone reference design is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2004.
Pricing is dependent on volume and features.
Motorola's i.250-21 feature phone reference design will be demonstrated next week at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.
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