Altera, NewLogic Give Boost to Bluetooth Product Development

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Altera, NewLogic Give Boost to Bluetooth Product Development

URL(s): www.altera.com

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 2, 2001--Altera Corporation (Nasdaq:ALTR), a leading supplier of programmable logic devices (PLDs), and NewLogic Technologies AG, today announced the immediate availability of the first licensable Bluetooth intellectual property (IP) core for PLDs. This provides developers the ability to implement a single chip Bluetooth(TM) system using Altera's system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions to speed time to market of applications using the wireless standard.

NewLogic's BOOST Lite(TM) core is specially optimized for Altera's APEX(TM) device family and Excalibur(TM) embedded processor solutions featuring a full implementation of the latest Bluetooth specification (v1.1). A Bluetooth software stack that supports the HCI interface is included with the core.

With today's announcement, Austrian-based NewLogic is the latest semiconductor intellectual property developer to join the growing ranks of the Altera Megafunction Partners Program (AMPP(SM)), a program created to offer programmable logic users access to best-in-class IP cores.

"We are pleased that NewLogic Technologies has joined our AMPP partnership program and are equally excited that the company's advanced Bluetooth BOOST Lite core is now available to our customers," said Craig Lytle, Altera vice president of the intellectual property business unit. "The BOOST Lite core is a fully featured Bluetooth Baseband Processor incorporating a flexible processor interface that will be easily integrated with any of Altera's Excalibur embedded processor solutions."

"NewLogic is excited to announce its membership in Altera's AMPP program," said Phil Woodhead, NewLogic Technologies' Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "NewLogic's BOOST Lite Bluetooth core is targeted specifically at the PLD community, allowing Altera customers easy access to the increasingly popular Bluetooth wireless technology."

NewLogic's BOOST Lite Bluetooth Core

NewLogic's BOOST Lite core is compliant to Bluetooth specification v1.1 and is designed in VHDL. The core offers a low frequency mode that is selectable between 12,13 and 16 MHz operation. In addition, it supports Bluetooth low power modes (sniff, hold, and park) and optional and mandatory paging modes. All packet types (control, voice, mixed voice-data, single-slot, multi-slot) are supported. An interface to an external SiliconWave Bluetooth radio module is supplied with the core. An optional CVSD (voice) transcoder with PCM interface is available on request. The BOOST Lite megafunction has been implemented in hardware and consumes approximately 7500 Logic Cells and 32 ESBs in within Altera's APEX PLD architecture.

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