CSR's BlueLab SDK Encourages Bluetooth Development

By Susan Hospod
iApplianceWeb
(11/20/01, 11:36:36 AM EDT)

Cambridge Silicon Radio released its next generation BlueLab software development kit. BlueLab is a powerful development environment enabling the creation of simple Bluetooth applications, such as headsets, which utilize the on-chip RISC microcontroller of CSR's single-chip Bluetooth solution, BlueCore1. CSR's Casira development kit hardware is bundled with BlueLab, providing a complete solution for rapidly integrating Bluetooth functionality into embedded applications.

Based on the GNU C compiler, BlueLab enables software developers to write user programs for specific applications on top of a pre-qualified Bluetooth software stack to run on BlueCore. Because the BlueCore stack is prequalified, developers using BlueLab must only write and seek qualification for their own user programs, shortening development, testing, and approval times. BlueLab also includes a powerful Windows-driven source-level debugger that offers familiar monitoring and debugging features.

CSR's BlueCore1 is the only production-ready single-chip Bluetooth solution, and it includes the industry's first integrated CMOS-based radio, baseband, and microcontroller. By utilizing standard CMOS technology, it can give cost and size advantages to designers of Bluetooth-enabled end products. BlueCore has the capability of running with the full Bluetooth stack, up to RFCOMM, on-chip. This provides users with the flexibility to run some Bluetooth applications in a stand-alone mode on a single chip.

BlueLab is available now for $999.

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