Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Cambridge Silicon Radio | Subject: BlueCore
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 September 2002
Single-chip Bluetooth enters printer dongles
BlueCore, the single-chip Bluetooth solution from Cambridge Silicon Radio, has been chosen by Taiwan-based Bluetake
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BlueCore is being used in its v1.1 qualified Class 1 and 2 Bluetooth USB dongles, BT009 and BT007. The two USB adapters allow printers, faxes, desktop or laptop PCs to be Bluetooth-enabled easily and cheaply. BlueCore was selected for the designs, which are both BQB approved, because of its small footprint, low cost and ease of integration.
Bluetake expects to be selling the new dongles in Q3, 2002 at which time they will go on sale in Taiwan, other parts of Asia, Europe and USA.
Bluetooth dongles are seen as a vital solution to Bluetooth-enable existing desktop and laptop PCs, as well as to a variety of peripherals, which have USB ports - all of which could benefit from a wireless connection.
The Bluetooth market is growing quickly and future generations of computers and peripherals are expected to have Bluetooth chips embedded into their designs.
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In the meantime however, the market for USB dongles is likely to be a big one.
The dongles have a maximum data rate of 721Kbit/s and support the full Bluetooth frequency hopping range of 2.4 to 2.483GHz.
BT009 is a Class 2 dongle (10m range) and is a small 63 x 23 x10mm, weighing only 16g.
BT007 is a Class 1 dongle with a range of 100m.
The compact size and full feature set of the Bluetake USB dongles is made possible by CSR's BlueCore single-chip Bluetooth solution.
Ming Chen, vice president, Bluetake commented "CSR has the best product and the most experience in Bluetooth silicon, it was an easy choice for us to select BlueCore for Bluetake modules".
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