News Release from: Cambridge Silicon Radio
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 February 2004

Bluetooth leaders prove medium-rate operation

Two of the leading companies in the Bluetooth silicon industry have successfully performed interoperability testing for medium-rate Bluetooth devices using both 2 and 3Mbit/s modes.

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Cambridge Silicon Radio and Silicon Wave, two of the leading companies in the Bluetooth silicon industry, have successfully performed interoperability testing for medium-rate Bluetooth devices using both 2 and 3Mbit/s modes. On 3rd February 2004 in San Francisco, CSR and Silicon Wave concluded a series of collaborative test events, which are believed to be the first of their kind. These interoperability tests are a major step to making a commercial reality out of medium-rate Bluetooth - an evolution of the Bluetooth standard which increases Bluetooth datarates by up to three times to 3 Mbit/s.

The datarate of the current Bluetooth v1.2 specification is up to 1Mbit/s.

Silicon Wave and CSR have both been major contributors to the development of the medium-rate specification and these tests highlight the important role both companies are playing in its development.

The tests CSR and Silicon Wave performed covered all aspects of the physical layer through the baseband and link manager functionality and included successful testing of all three data modes (3, 2 and 1Mbit/s).

Based on this extensive interoperabiloity testing, the companies believe that the medium rate specifications are complete.

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