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Zenocom to use CSR BlueCore in its Latest Bluetooth Module
URL(s): www.btdesigner.com
RICHARDSON, Texas, Mar 4, 2002 - CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) announced today that Zenocom, the Korean wireless LAN
and Bluetooth solutions company, has selected CSR's single-chip Bluetooth solution, BlueCore, for its latest Bluetooth Class 1 module called the BlueLink01.
The module will enable Bluetooth to be incorporated into a range of mobile phones, laptops, headsets and PDAs and includes a variety of Bluetooth profiles to
support these applications. The modules are available now in sample quantities from the CSR website for Bluetooth designers, www.btdesigner.com
BlueLink01 has a small footprint of 37mmx22mmx4mm which is made possible by the diminutive size of CSR's BlueCore chip and is available with HCI link
for UART with programmable baud rates and for full speed USB connections up to 12Mbps. The internal Bluetooth stack supports all packet types and
multiple data channels at all Bluetooth data rates to suit easy integration into a wide range of Bluetooth devices.
Eric Janson, vice president North America, CSR commented, "CSR is happy to be selected by Zenocom for its Bluetooth modules." Janson added that,
"BlueCore is now featured in over 70 percent of v1.1 pre-qualified Bluetooth modules being produced across the globe."
"Using BlueCore it was possible to incorporate Bluetooth with minimum RF components and enable Zenocom to produce the module in a very short space of
time," said Yong-Sung Chang, Marketing Manager, Zenocom.
BlueCore integrates radio, microprocessor and baseband circuits for a 2.4GHz Bluetooth solution in a single chip. It is implemented in CMOS technology and
together with an external Flash ROM, it provides a fully compliant Bluetooth system for data and voice communications. The design is optimized to require
very few external RF components to allow a rapid design of the motherboard, and therefore the fastest possible time-to-market at the lowest overall cost.
About CSR
CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) specializes in providing single-chip radio devices to the global market for short-range wireless communications, including
Bluetooth(TM). The company's mission is to create the most highly integrated radio devices available, fabricated using standard CMOS technology, to provide
its customers with the lowest cost of ownership of high quality digital radio.
CSR was the first company in the world to offer a true single-chip Bluetooth solution with BlueCore, a fully integrated 2.4 GHz radio, baseband and
microcontroller. In Q4 2001 CSR released BlueCore2, its second generation family, and offer developed hardware/software bundles for each of the fastest
growing Bluetooth applications markets. Users can combine the chips with the CSR Bluetooth software stack to provide a fully compliant solution for data and
voice communications or, used with an upper layer host software stack, CSR is able to offer a complete Bluetooth end-to-end solution.
CSR has a growing list of major international companies including Sony, Compaq, IBM, Fujitsu, LG, ALPS, TDK, 3Com, Mitsumi, Siemens and Motorola,
who have already used CSR's BlueCore in the development of a range of Bluetooth products. In fact, up to the end of 2001, 70% of available pre-qualified
modules, as listed on the qualified products page of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) web site, feature BlueCore01 and it is in 60% of all qualified
Bluetooth v 1.1 enabled end product designs.
CSR is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with offices in Richardson, Texas; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore and Aalborg, Denmark.
More information about CSR can be found on the web site at www.csr.com
About Zenocom
Zenocom is a venture company in Korea founded in February 2000. Zenocom supplies Bluetooth and WLAN technology enabling a wireless data
communication between devices and customer requiring Software and Driver to their OS platform such as Windows, REX, WinCE, VxWorks, Linux.
Zenocom's technology and products covers Bluetooth card and Bluetooth RF Module, Bluetooth Profile and Application, WLAN Wireless Access Point and
Bluetooth function design, WLAN USB Card, WLAN CF Card, ATM Switching NMS and ultra high speed IP Router design, Microprocessor Embedded
S/W design.
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