Spirea Showcases Bluetooth Chips

By Susan Hospod
iApplianceWeb
(12/11/01, 10:19:07 AM EDT)

Spirea AB has developed low cost and efficient semiconductors for Bluetooth-enabled devices, using their RF CMOS design process. BlueTraC is a low cost RF transceiver chip, and BlueAmp is a power amplifier that extends the range of Bluetooth radios. Spirea will be showcasing BlueTraC and BlueAmp at the Bluetooth Developer's conference in San Francisco, CA.

BlueTraC requires no external passive components, and runs with a low rate of power consumption. BlueTraC's efficient design architecture incorporates dynamic power management with a mixed signal CMOS design strategy to achieve the highest level of integration. BlueTraC is compliant with Bluetooth radio specification 1.1 and supports industry standard radio interfaces uni- and bi-directional BlueRF.

BlueAmp is a low cost, small sized power amplifier that extends the range of Bluetooth radios from 10 to 100 meters. Designed using Spirea's proprietary, optimized CMOS design process, BlueAmp is used for applications in the 2.4GHz - 2.5GHz band. BlueAmp can operate with BlueTraC and other 2.4GHz radios, and features a four level power control scheme to satisfy the Bluetooth class 1 specification.

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Spirea AB