News Release from: Chipcon
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 10 May 2005
Platform speeds wireless keyboard/mouse designs
The RadioDesk platform consists of a ready-for-production keyboard and mouse reference design using Chipcon's advanced adaptive frequency-hopping RF protocol.
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New from Chipcon is the RadioDesk HID (human interface device) platform. Based on Chipcon's state-of-the art SmartRF04 CC2500 2.4GHz radio technology, the RadioDesk platform consists of a ready-for-production keyboard and mouse reference design using Chipcon's advanced adaptive frequency-hopping (AFHSS) RF protocol. 'Consumer electronics leaders are aggressively including low-cost, high-power wireless technologies in devices to enhance user experience, expanding the applications for wireless technologies'.
'The RadioDesk platform is part of Chipcon's commitment to provide low-cost, high performance solutions to the developers of consumer electronics'.
'The solution will enable manufacturers to eliminate wires in such popular consumer products as media PCs, game pads, remote controls, keyboards and mouse peripherals', says Geir Forre, President and CEO of Chipcon.
'The RadioDesk platform promises to provide companies with a differentiated solution and an enhanced user experience'.
'Wireless developers will get a robust, low-cost, low-latency 2.4GHz solution with long battery lifetime'.
'The availability of a finished, production-ready design will shave months off our time-to-market for our product', he added.
The RadioDesk keyboard/mouse platform is a production-ready design consisting of a wireless keyboard, a wireless optical mouse and a very small form-factor USB dongle.
With an extremely competitive BOM, the RadioDesk platform is currently the most cost-efficient solution in the wireless devices market.
Keeping abreast with the market trend towards the adoption of 2.4GHz solutions both among design houses and consumers, Chipcon has been constantly adding innovative solutions to its product line.
The RadioDesk RF protocol has been designed from the ground up to address the most important end user concerns facing wireless HID developers: robustness, coexistence with WLAN, Bluetooth and other 2.4GHz devices, long battery lifetime and low latency.
In combination with excellent blocking performance of the CC2500 radio, the protocol ensures the industry's best coexistence performance.
The typical range of the platform is 10-15m, much further than what has been possible till date with older 27MHz solutions.
The reference design is based on the Chipcon CC2500 2.4GHz RF transceiver.
Other key components in the RadioDesk reference design include Holtek Semiconductor MCUs, the Agilent Technologies ADNS-2030 optical sensor and an advanced chip antenna from Fractus.
Without the need for any custom drivers, the plug-and-play USB solution is fully compliant with the USB HID specification.
Chipcon Product Marketing Director, Karl H Torvmark, said: 'Chipcon currently has the lowest power and most cost-efficient 2.4GHz radio on the market'.
'The CC2500 technology is the best choice for power-constrained systems with respect to low peak power consumption, the possibility of burst-mode operation with less than 0.5ms startup time, and unique wake-on-radio functionality'.
Chipcon will provide the entire reference design, including PCB layouts and software source code to customers, free-of-charge.
The design is easy to customise, allowing customers to add value-added features to their own designs.
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