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Release LibraryBluetooth Congress, Amsterdam –June 17th, 2003 – CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio), the world's leading single-chip Bluetooth company today announced that its Bluetooth technology, BlueCore, is being used in a new combination Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module from Taiwanese manufacturer Universal Scientific Industrial Co Ltd (USI). The module, which benefits from the low power consumption and small footprint of CSR's BlueCore, is targeted at consumer handheld applications such as PDAs, Smartphones, digital cameras, camcorders and printers. The USI combo module measures a compact 22x29 millimetres and is intended for embedding directly into the handheld device.
Given the proximity of the Bluetooth and 802.11b radios, the module
employs CSR's channel skipping technology, minimising interference between
the Bluetooth and 802.11b radios and improving the throughput of the Bluetooth
radio by as much as 50 percent over solutions that rely on MAC level signalling.
Combining both wireless technologies into one card allows a notebook PC, for
example, to connect
to a wireless LAN using the faster 802.11b technology, and at the same time,
to lower power Bluetooth peripherals (e.g. printers, mice and keyboards) or
mobile handsets or to synchronise PDAs.
USI is incorporating Agere Systems' WaveLAN® 802.11b wireless
networking
chip set in the combination Bluetooth/Wi-Fi module.
"Wireless users want the freedom to move untethered without losing their connection," said C.Y. Wei, Corporate Senior V. P. and General Manager of USI's Communication Business Group. "Our module combines two key wireless technologies – 802.11b and Bluetooth – to enable even greater data sharing and connectivity options for mobile applications. Moreover, USI’s design expertise and manufacturing capacity offer customers total solutions to differentiate their products by quick time-to-market, best performance and desirable quality."
Matthew Phillips, VP Sales Asia, CSR commented, "Because CSR silicon includes the full feature set of the Bluetooth specification and delivers the best Bluetooth performance in terms of coexistence with Wi-Fi radios, our BlueCore technology is the standard choice for such combination designs."
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