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Innovative Bluetooth™Platform Offers
Exceptional Performance Features
Motorola Solution with Unique
Coexistence Capability Expected to be Available in 2nd Quarter of 2002
AUSTIN, Texas – Dec. 11, 2001
– Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) Semiconductor Products Sector, a world
leader in networking and wireless communication, announces a comprehensive
Bluetooth Platform Solution. To meet the challenges of today’s demanding
designs, this platform provides a V1.1 compliant Bluetooth solution with
exceptional performance, high quality audio, certified interoperability and
802.11b coexistence, as well as embedded software, development tools, and
reference design kits.
Motorola’s
platform is designed to accelerate development of high-performance Bluetooth
solutions for application in cell phones, personal digital assistants, headsets
and other systems that can benefit from Bluetooth
communications.
"Motorola's Bluetooth platform
offers more than just a comprehensive and economical solution," notes Bill
Dunnigan, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's Wireless
Local Connectivity Division. "It also promises a superior Bluetooth user
experience through a design that can provide up to four times the range, plus
capacity for twice as many ad hoc networks and operation 50% closer to noise
sources when compared to performance required by the Bluetooth
standards."
This platform represents only the
first of a family of products for the Bluetooth market. Future solutions are
planned to provide specialized platforms for targeted markets, and Motorola is
enabling greater integration of Bluetooth IP core into host processors. This IP
core integration of Bluetooth baseband functions into a system processor will
allow low cost implementation and will speed the adoption of Bluetooth by the
general market. Bluetooth wireless technology is a key value-added feature in
Motorola’s wireless portfolio, including the Innovative Convergence family
of wireless platforms for manufacturers of mobile devices and the
DragonBall™family of applications
processors.
Motorola is also one of the
companies providing leadership in the standards and definition of high rate
Bluetooth 2 technology that will provide more than 10Mb/s transfer speeds while
still operating at low power.
New
Technology Drives Improved Performance
Key to
the performance of this Bluetooth platform are recent Motorola inventions, which
allow efficient implementations of Joint Detection & Maximum Likelihood
Sequence Estimation (JD/MLSE) technology. Motorola's unique JD/MLSE data
demodulation technology enables a robust link near 802.11b WLAN
connections—and other sources of interference in the public ISM band, such
as microwave ovens and cordless phones. It provides greater range, more
capacity, and improved quality compared with “bit slicing” based
radios. This greater range means improved service availability, while
increasing the service coverage area by up to 16 times. The additional capacity
means that throughput is maintained in high-density Bluetooth environments such
as airports, shopping malls and other public
places.
This Motorola system solution is
expected to be one of the first implementers of SIG endorsed Adaptive Frequency
Hopping (AFH) technology. Motorola is one of the drivers of the technology
definition in the Coexistence Working Group. AFH is expected to increase the
throughput for both Bluetooth and 802.11b networks operating in the same
proximity by minimizing destructive mutual interference.
The Bluetooth Platform Solution
from Motorola
Based on Motorola's third-generation Bluetooth
architecture, the Bluetooth Platform comprises these specific products (with
part numbers in parenthesis):
- V1.1 compliant
baseband processor with Bluetooth standard
Host Controller Interface (MC71000)
- V1.1
compliant RF BiCMOS transceiver, Bluetooth Class 2
(MC13180)
- V1.1 power amplifier, for Bluetooth
Class 1 (MRFIC2408)
- Power management IC for
headset and cell phone accessories (MC13181)
-
V1.1 compliant embedded Bluetooth software
-
Development Kit for rapid prototyping and
development
- Reference Design Kit
Additional product details are available in
technical briefs on the Motorola SPS Bluetooth website:
http://www.motorola.com/semiconductors/bluetooth
Bluetooth Qualification Board
Certification
The Bluetooth Qualification Board
has certified the highly integrated MC13180 RF BiCMOS Transceiver.
Qualification improves the level of interoperability with other Bluetooth
products and reaffirms Motorola’s commitment to driving Bluetooth adoption
by providing certified products to the
industry.
3rd Party Software
Stack
In a separate release, Extended Systems
Inc., a leader in commercial software stacks, has announced that its Bluetooth
software stack will support the Motorola platform. Additionally, tools are
available from Motorola to simplify the use of proprietary stacks with the
platform.
Product Price and
Availability
Motorola has working silicon today
and expects to sample the platform solution with development kits to customers
in the first quarter of 2002. Production is planned for the second quarter.
The chipset comprising this Bluetooth solution is expected be available at a
suggested list price of $5.90 in million unit volume.
Solutions from a Leader in Bluetooth
Standards
Motorola is one of only nine
companies participating as Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) promoters
– the highest membership level available. As a pioneer in many RF
technologies, including Bluetooth wireless technology, Motorola has the
experience and knowledge to drive a wireless market. With dozens of Motorolans
participating in leadership positions in various SIG standards working groups,
and over 25 qualified Bluetooth products to date, Motorola plans to continue
playing a major part in the market adoption of Bluetooth wireless technology.
About
Motorola
As the world's #1 producer of embedded
processors, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector creates DigitalDNA(tm)
system-on-chip solutions for a connected world. Our strong focus on
communications and networking enables customers to develop smarter, simpler,
safer and synchronized products for the person, work team, home and automobile.
Motorola's worldwide semiconductor sales were $7.9 billion (USD) in
2000.
http://www.motorola.com/semiconductors
Motorola,
Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications and
embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2000 were $37.6 billion.
http://www.motorola.com/
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MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are
registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office. All other product or service
names are the property of their respective owners. (c) 2001 Motorola, Inc. All
rights reserved.
Media
Contacts:
Bill
Schnell
Motorola
+1 (512)
895-2631
B.Schnell@motorola.com
Mike
Kelley
Motorola
+1 (512)
895-7007rxcj60@email.sps.mot.com
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