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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 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 core is specially optimized for Altera’s APEX device
family and Excalibur 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), 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 is 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.
The NewLogic BOOST Lite core is available immediately through NewLogic
Technologies. The purchase of the core includes a CD consisting of all
design files, software and documentation needed to implement a reference
Bluetooth baseband processor application with an external ARM
microcontroller and SiliconWave radio module (interfaces to other radios are
available on request). The BOOST Lite core encrypted netlist version is
available for $25,000. A full source code version with additional
deliverables is also available on request, as is a fully embedded protocol
stack (to API level).
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