Alcatel and IVT Corp in Bluetooth pact

An Alcatel Microelectronics product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Dec 12, 2001

Alcatel and IVT Corp have signed a partnership to jointly promote their Bluetooth solutions.

Alcatel and IVT Corp have signed a partnership to jointly promote their Bluetooth solutions.

The combination of Alcatel's Bluetooth reference design with embedded software up to HCI, and IVT's Bluetooth Host Protocol Stack, Profiles and BlueTester, results in a total Bluetooth solution that is easy-to-integrate, offering equipment manufacturers a short development cycle.

Dr Qiang Gao, CEO of IVT says: "We are pleased to enter such partnership with an innovative Bluetooth chip manufacturer like Alcatel.

Alcatel and IVT are looking forward to providing their customers with complete turnkey solutions".

Vincent Mouret, Vice President Wireless Business Unit for Alcatel's microelectronics activities, commented: "Alcatel is bringing to the market the most compact and complete solution, satisfying the needs of the most demanding customer applications in terms of data rate, software flexibility and hardware implementation.

Our partnership with IVT allows us to offer to our customers a total Bluetooth solution, a proven combination of our hardware and firmware and IVT's software.

This partnership is part of our extensive programme of collaboration with the major players in the Bluetooth industry".

The Alcatel Bluetooth design, the MTC-60180, is the first Bluetooth chip on the market offering complete V1.1 functionality with proven interoperability: full data rate, point-to-multipoint - master/slave switch, multislot packet communication (for higher data rates), park, hold and sniff modes, Scatternet functionality, Safer+ encryption and three simultaneous audio channels.

With the Flash memory embedded in the chip, Alcatel's design is a compact and complete solution.

Customers can benefit from software upgrades faster and can differentiate their products by adding application layers, without the need for external memory.

The chip allows for a maximum flexibility through the choice of radio.

Alcatel has a future-proven platform, with a roadmap of various dedicated versions, a fast move to ROM (FlashROM from TSMC), and extended functionality.

Moreover, Alcatel offers local technical customer support worldwide.