Product category: Reference Designs
News Release from: ICSI (Integrated Circuit Solution) | Subject: IC9000 Bluetooth USB dongle reference design
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 31 December 2002
Speedy route to Bluetooth designs
Integrated Circuit Solution has developed a Bluetooth USB dongle reference design that provides an easy route for Bluetooth enabling any electronic device
Integrated Circuit Solution has developed a Bluetooth USB dongle reference design that allows electronic devices to become Bluetooth-enabled. This reference design will be of great help to its customers who do not have Bluetooth technology backgrounds for this wireless market. The ICSI low-cost high-performance Bluetooth USB dongle reference design is based on ICSI's IC9000, a highly integrated point-to-multipoint Bluetooth solution, that combines USB plug-and-play and embedded Bluetooth functionality, is a solution for the user to easily address those 'addon' products such as desktops, laptops and a variety of peripherals with USB host ports to have Bluetooth capabilities by linking with this Bluetooth USB dongle.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 31 December 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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This reference design includes USB dongle PCB layout, protocol stack and profile, hardware/firmware under HCI, a testing environment for production and debugging tools for developing.
'The plug-and play Bluetooth USB dongle can drive this Bluetooth market by making everyone to have Bluetooth-enabled connectivity at a very competitive cost', said Jiin Lee, VP of Logic R and D, ICSI.
'Through ICSI's reference design and complete technical support, all of our customers, even to those who do not have any Bluetooth technology background, can easily gain access to this Bluetooth market with ICSI's mature Bluetooth technology assistance.
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ICSI can even help customers pass the Bluetooth qualification included in our field service'.
The IC9000 is a highly cost-effective Bluetooth baseband and link management controller chip that passed Bluetooth BQB certification in May 2002.
The device is based on the Turbo 8052 core with 128Kbyte of mask ROM and 32Kbyte of SRAM embedded, with USB/UARTs HCI and PCM interfaces and multiple RF power control function interfaces.
The IC9000 operates at the full Bluetooth datarate of 723Kbyte/s (DH5 packet), supports up to seven ACL links and up to three SCO (synchronous connection oriented) voice channels in a piconet, and supports master-slave role switching and park, sniff and hold modes to meet the low power consumption application needs.
(This was Electronicstalk's Top Story on 30 December 2002)
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