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To: Mats Ericsson who wrote (168)	2/28/2000 8:09:00 AM
From: Jim Oravetz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 322

Bluetooth Steps Onto A Single Radio Chip By Semiconductor Business News Feb 25, 2000 (9:44 AM) URL: techweb.com Cambridge Silicon Radio at CeBit 2000 in Hannover, Germany, demonstrated what it said is the only true single-chip implementation of a Bluetooth wireless system. The British company said the chip will be ready for volume production by the middle of the year. CSR demonstrated the wireless transfer of text between BlueCore01 ICs embedded inside the PC cards of two notebook PCs. The BlueCore 01 single-chip Bluetooth IC uses standard CMOS processes and combines the 2.4-GHz radio, the baseband, the microcontroller, and the RAM needed in the Bluetooth radio. Together with an external flash ROM containing the CSR Bluetooth software stack, BluleCore 01 provides a fully compliant Bluetooth system for data and voice communications, the company said. The design is optimized to require very few external RF components to facilitate a rapid design of the motherboard, and, therefore, the fastest possible time to market and lowest overall cost. CSR said its goal is to produce the smallest, lowest-cost Bluetooth system. Intel this week made an equity investment in the company. "When we announced our plans early in 1999 to develop the first true single-chip Bluetooth system on one CMOS chip, the world was skeptical," said Phil O'Donovan, managing director at CSR. "Now we have reached this milestone -- on schedule -- we imagine that the world will sit up and take notice. Cambridge Silicon Radio has today removed another barrier that had to be crossed before mass adoption of the Bluetooth technology is possible -- that of proving that the true single chip solution, the only solution the will allow the $5 cost goal to be reached, is a commercial reality today. We have achieved this way before the date predicted by many industry analysts." "With BlueCore 01, we have now proved beyond all doubt that RF-CMOS technology is practical," said James Collier, CSR's technical director. "Our design is fully toleranced and high yield -- the next challenge will be to increase the performance of our CMOS-RF architectures to allow CMOS-RF to be used for higher-performance, longer-range radios." Jim