Rappore Minimizes Bluetooth

By Michael Foley
iApplianceWeb
(08/28/01, 09:55:24 AM EDT)

Rappore Technologies, Inc., is miniaturizing the requirements for implementing Bluetooth. They released their Bluetooth On Chip technology for developers requiring rapid integration of Bluetooth technology into small memory constrained devices and designs. The new Bluetooth On Chip technology handles Bluetooth commands and events in only 1K of ROM memory. Rappore has minimized the Bluetooth stack as a trade off for using minimal processor technologies.

Rappore's Bluetooth On Chip enables Bluetooth master devices to simultaneously control multiple slave devices. Implementing a subset of the complete library of Bluetooth Specification 1.1 functions, Bluetooth On Chip contains over a dozen embedded Bluetooth commands and events for sending and receiving Bluetooth radio instructions. Rappore has eliminated the OS dependencies for its Bluetooth On Chip technology, which makes it operate much more efficiently. Versions of embedded Bluetooth On Chip can scale to support additional Bluetooth host protocol stack layers and multiple Bluetooth device types.

Rappore Technologies has prototyped the Bluetooth On Chip with the MICROCHIP PIC17XXX family of microcontrollers and ported them to other embedded devices, such as the Intel MCS51 family of microcontrollers.

Rappore Technologies delivers Bluetooth On Chip as object code to link to a specific microcontroller or on partner-supplied, embedded hardware with customized pin configurations. Rappore's Bluetooth On Chip includes object code, professional services, developer instructions, and a license.

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Rappore Technologies, Inc.