Bluetooth® development options

An extensive range of development tools are available to support BlueCore™ Bluetooth® applications. This page introduces the main choices. Follow the links, or contact your local CSR office to find out in detail what is available to support your target application:

Example designs for major applications Cellphones,
PDAs ... 		Custom design
Headsets/headphones
CSR offers ready-to-apply designs based on BlueCore4-Headset (a programmed BlueCore4-Audio ROM) and BlueCore3-Multimedia. Custom designs may be developed using the BlueLab SDK.		 Development of
BlueCoreX-ROM
 Casira™ provides an evaluation tool for ROM-based designs. Reference designs for cellphones/PDAs are available.		 Casira general-purpose development system
Casira™ is CSR's evaluation and development tool for applications not covered by example designs or ready-programmed BlueCore devices. Purchase grants access to the resources available on www.csrsupport.com - such as reference designs.
PC wireless peripherals
BlueICE software allows wireless peripherals to be bundled as standard with PC shipments. Bluetooth keyboards and mice can then be used during boot-up, before the operating system loads, negating the need for a reserve wired keyboard. 		Easy-retrofit cellphone solutions
These ready-to-apply solutions are based on either the ROM-equipped BlueCore2-Audio or BlueCore3-ROM devices, for which CSR provides ready-written application code. 		BlueLab SDK for single-chip applications
BlueCore devices incorporate a RISC microcontroller, allowing highly cost-effective 'deeply embedded' single-chip Bluetooth solutions to be developed for simple embedded applications using this software development kit.
Other example designs and BlueCore firmware
CSR has ready-engineered designs for many other major Bluetooth applications including:
  • Automobile hands-free kit
  • RS232 cable replacement
  • Access points
  • PDAs
  • Compact Flash cards
  • Bluetooth/Wi-Fi mini-PCIbus card
  • Printers
  • Mouse
Upper Bluetooth stack and Profiles
CSR Synergy provides the upper protocol stack layers plus a large library of Profiles - providing a complete system software solution for host-interfaced applications such as cellphones and PDAs.
Portable device operating systems
Ready-to-use software for Linux and Win CE