Overview
- Single-chip Bluetooth solution for mono and stereo headsets
- Integrated stereo CODEC, DSP, battery charger and SMPS
- Bluetooth V2.0+EDR compliant, Bluetooth V2.1 ready
- Superior audio quality with -95dB audio DAC
- Low power consumption due to 1.8V 0.13um process technology
- Best in class radio design: +6.5 dBm transmit power and -90 dBm receive sensitvity
- Interfaces with up to 32Mbits external flash
- LFBGA package
Overview
BlueCore5-Multimedia is part of CSR's latest family of single-chip ICs for 2.4GHz Bluetooth systems. It features the highest level of integration with on-chip radio, baseband, DSP, stereo CODEC, charger and SMPS. When used with the CSR Bluetooth software stack it provides a fully Bluetooth V2.0+EDR compliant system for audio and data applications. In addition the chip architecture is ready for the Bluetooth V2.1 specification, due to be ratified in December 2006.
The embedded Kalimba DSP core is an open platform digital signal co-processor allowing product enhancing features such as advanced audio decoding (MP3, AAC, AAC+) and echo cancellation and noise reduction. A wide range of 3rd party software plug-ins are available through CSR's eXtension partner program.
BlueCore5-Multimedia offers best in-class audio quality, power consumption and radio performance, making it ideal for high-quality mono and stereo Bluetooth headset designs. The industry-leading level of integration reduces component count and BOM cost, allowing customers to achieve price/performance levels previously unattainable.
Applications
- High quality stereo headsets
- High quality mono headsets
- Hands-free car kits
- Wireless speakers
- VoIP handsets
- Music player Bluetooth dongle
- USB Multimedia dongles