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To: John Biddle who wrote (30646)	1/2/2003 5:53:40 PM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196778

ICSI debuts Bluetooth 'dongle' reference design Semiconductor Business News January 1, 2003 (10:48 a.m. EST) commsdesign.com HSINCHU, Taiwan--Taiwan's Integrated Circuit Solution Inc. (ICSI) here announced a Bluetooth-enabled dongle reference design kit, based on its wireless baseband and link controller chip. ICSI's reference design combines Universal Serial Bus (USB) plug-and-play and embedded Bluetooth functionality. This reference design includes a USB dongle PCB layout, protocol stack and profile, hardware/firmware under HCI, a testing environment for production, and debugging tools. It also includes the company's IC9000, a Bluetooth-based baseband and link management controller chip. Complaint with the Bluetooth 1.1 specification, the chip makes use of a Turbo 8052 controller as its core design, with embedded 128-KB mask ROM and 32-KB SRAM. “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, vice president of logic at ICSI, a fabless IC design house in Hsinchu.