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News Release from: Cambridge Silicon Radio
Subject: BlueCore2-CDMA
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 December 2002

Single-chip Bluetooth for CDMA handsets

Cambridge Silicon Radio has added a further device to its BlueCore2 series of single-chip Bluetooth solutions for low cost, high-volume applications.

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Cambridge Silicon Radio has added a further device to its BlueCore2 series of single-chip Bluetooth solutions for low cost, high-volume applications. BlueCore2-CDMA is designed solely for mobile handset applications with features aimed at integration simplicity, coexistence, power savings and size reduction. BlueCore2-CDMA is CSR's first radio-only Bluetooth device and is tailored specifically for connection to the Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) MSM5100 Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipset.

BlueCore2-CDMA offers small size and minimal external components providing designers with greater freedom to produce smaller, lighter and more ergonomically designed products.

It is fully BQB qualified with samples available now.

Shipping in volume is expected beginning Q1 2003.

CSR's BlueCore2-CDMA requires fewer external components than previous designs using integrated loop filter components and linear voltage regulators.

With a low component count and a footprint of as little as 50mm2 for the total Bluetooth solution, the BlueCore2-CDMA product allows CSR to target high-volume, cost-sensitive applications for Bluetooth such as the CDMA and 3G mobile handsets supported by Qualcomm.

John Halksworth, product manager for the CDMA device, commented, "BlueCore2-CDMA brings CSR's industry-leading CMOS radio to a new market segment at a cost point that will allow Bluetooth to become a mandatory feature on mobile handsets".

Halksworth continued, "We used the same radio and control architecture as the other devices in the BlueCore2 range, which account for 57% of v1.1 qualified end products, then optimised it for co-existence with the MSM series devices".

Supplied in a small CSP (chip scale package), BlueCore2-CDMA is implemented in a 0.18-micron CMOS process, which has a proven track record with the BlueCore2-External that has been in mass production since Q4 2001.

CSR was the first company to market with its single-chip BlueCore and has continued to lead the market on price, size and availability, further enhancing CSR's leadership position in the Bluetooth market.

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