BlueCore4-Audio ROM

Specification

Radio

  • Common TX/RX terminal simplifies external matching; eliminates external antenna switch
  • BIST minimises production test time. No external trimming is required in production
  • Full RF reference designs available
  • Bluetooth® v2.0 + EDR specification compliant

Transmitter

  • +6dBm RF transmit power with level control from on-chip 6-bit DAC over a dynamic range >30dB
  • Class 2 and Class 3 support without the need for an external power amplifier or TX/RX switch
  • Class 1 support using external power amplifier with RF power controlled by an internal 8-bit DAC

Receiver

  • Integrated channel filters
  • Digital demodulator for improved sensitivity and co-channel rejection
  • Real time digitised RSSI available on HCI interface
  • Fast AGC for enhanced dynamic range

Synthesiser

  • Fully integrated synthesiser; requires no external VCO, varactor diode, resonator or loop filter
  • Compatible with an external crystal or with an external clock using sinusoidal or logic-level signals
  • Accepts frequencies between 8 and 32MHz (in multiples of 250kHz); additionally accepts 7.68, 14.44, 15.36, 16.2, 16.8, 19.2, 19.44, 19.68, 19.8 and 38.4MHz TCXO frequencies typically used in GSM and CDMA devices

Auxiliary features

  • Crystal oscillator with built-in digital trimming
  • Power management includes digital shutdown, and wake up commands with an integrated low power oscillator for ultra low Park/Sniff/Hold mode
  • Clock request output to control external clock
  • On-chip linear regulator; 1.8V output from a 2.2-4.2V input, can also be used to generate microphone bias
  • Power-on-reset cell detects low supply voltage
  • Arbitrary power supply sequencing permitted
  • 8-bit ADC and DAC available to applications
  • Battery charger with programmable current (25-100mA) for Lithium Ion /Polymer battery
  • LED intensity control for dedicated LED1 and LED0 outputs

Baseband and software

  • Internal 6Mbits ROM
  • Internal 48Kb RAM to support EDR. Allows full speed data transfer, mixed voice and data, and full piconet operation
  • Logic for forward error correction, header error control, access code correlation, CRC, demodulation, encryption bit stream generation, whitening and transmit pulse shaping
  • Transcoders for A-law, µ-law and linear voice from host and A-law, µ-law and CVSD voice over air

Physical interfaces

  • Synchronous serial interface up to 4Mbaud for system debugging
  • UART interface with programmable baud rate up to 3Mbaud with an optional bypass mode
  • Full speed USB v1.1 interface supports OHCI and UHCI host interfaces. Compliant with USB v2.0
  • Optional I2C™ compatible interface

Audio CODEC

  • 15-bit resolution, 8kHz sampling frequency
  • Digital enhancements to add bass cut, side tone and treble boost
  • Analogue enhancements to support single-ended speaker drive capability and reference availability

Bluetooth stack
CSR's Bluetooth Protocol Stack runs on-chip in a variety of configurations:

  • Standard HCI (UART or USB)
  • Fully embedded to RFCOMM
  • Customised builds with embedded application code

Package Options

    1. 96-ball TFBGA, 8 x 8 x 1.2mm, 0.65mm pitch