Companies Leverage Partnership to Offer Bluetooth Solution for Truly
Transparent Wireless Connections for Laptops and Mobile Devices
SAN FRANCISCO, Embedded Systems Conference, March 13 /PRNewswire/ --
Oki Semiconductor, a leading technology partner for the new era of digital
communications and convergence, and Adamya Technologies Inc., a leader in
wireless technology products, today announced a Bluetooth PCMCIA reference
design offering developers a complete, cost-effective wire replacement
solution for handheld, laptop, and desktop computer connections. With a
reference design based upon Oki's BQB qualified chipset and module and
Adamya's C-Blue(TM) software stack, developers are equipped with a
cost-effective, reliable and feature-rich platform to best suit their PCMCIA
design needs.
The two companies will be demonstrating the Bluetooth PCMCIA reference
design as well as their Bluetooth printer card reference design at the
Embedded Systems Conference (Booth #713) this week.
"We are pleased to be teaming with Oki again to speed the development of
very practical Bluetooth solutions that are applicable to a wide reach of
device users," said Vikas Gurugunti, senior vice president (Strategic
Partnerships), Adamya Technologies Incorporated. "By enabling PCMCIA Bluetooth
solutions, we are helping to bring the benefits of wireless connectivity to a
standard medium with which users are already familiar."
A PCMCIA (or PC Card) card connects to a computer or handheld's Type II
card slot and establishes a wireless link via Bluetooth. Products developed
with Oki and Adamya's reference design enable applications such as wireless
printing, faxing and file exchange as well as dialup sessions with Bluetooth
enabled mobile phones to surf the net or download e-mail.
"This is another step in Oki's roadmap of Bluetooth developments fueled by
our strategic partnership with Adamya," said Ike Saeed, vice president of
marketing at Oki Semiconductor. "Oki has decades of experience with both
printer and mobile hardware applications, and our module, together with
Adamya's C-Blue -- the smallest Bluetooth stack in the industry, has delivered
a product that our growing customer base can use today."
The reference design board is a complete hardware and software solution
that includes Oki's Bluetooth BQB certified module (with antenna) and Adamya's
C-Blue software stack, which provides support to HCI, L2CAP, RFCOMM, SDP, and
TCS protocols and the embedded application with drivers.
Features of the Bluetooth PCMCIA reference design include:
-- Interoperability with any standard Bluetooth v. 1.1 device
-- Oki's BQB Certified Bluetooth module
-- Adamya's C-Blue stack
-- Adherence to standard PCMCIA Type II dimensions
-- Lightweight PCB (0.6 mm thick PCB.)
-- Demonstration programs built using C-Blue, the smallest Bluetooth
protocol stack
-- Demonstration programs included with the reference design kit
About Oki's Bluetooth Solution
Oki's Bluetooth solution was announced in July and includes a module
integrating the chipset, Bluetooth software, an antenna and connector, a
comprehensive systems development kit (SDK), and a Bluetooth protocol stack.
With its fully qualified chipset, Oki is now offering both the chipset and
modules for more options in Bluetooth design, and the module is now available
for immediate sampling.
About Bluetooth
The Bluetooth wireless technology is set to revolutionize the personal
connectivity market by providing freedom from wired connections. It is a
specification for a small-form factor, low-cost radio solution providing links
between mobile computers, mobile phones and other portable handheld devices,
and connectivity to the Internet. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG),
comprised of leaders in the telecommunications, computing, and network
industries, is driving development of the technology and bringing it to
market. The Bluetooth SIG includes promoter companies 3Com, Ericsson, IBM,
Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba, and Adopter/Associate
member companies. To insure products meet a certain set of standards,
Bluetooth Qualification Body (BQB) certification has been established by the
Bluetooth governing body. BQB reviews test reports, product documents, and
manufacturer declarations, and is authorized to list a product that meets
current requirements.
About Adamya
C-Blue is Adamya's Bluetooth protocol stack. With a footprint of just 18K
Bytes and MIPS requirement of just 0.5 MIPS, it is the smallest qualified
stack in the market place today. C-Blue is easily embeddable into most of the
generic processors. The architecture is uniquely designed to enable easy
portability and interoperability. C-Blue is currently available on almost all
widely used processors and platforms like Windows, Win-CE, Embedded Linux,
Linux operating systems. The stack supports all standard profiles.
Adamya has been providing embedded solutions since 1996. Adamya's deep
capabilities in the technology domain and its design philosophy in delivering
'very compact-high performance' embedded solutions, have been used to come out
with the most compact embedded Bluetooth(TM) Protocol stack in the world
today. Adamya's vision is to innovate and implement technology profitably. The
company licenses its IPs in the short and medium range wireless communication
areas and helps build customers innovative solutions based on these
technologies. More information about Adamya is available at http://www.adamya.com.
About Oki Semiconductor
Building on Oki's century-long commitment to communications technologies
and markets, Oki Semiconductor designs and markets a broad line of advanced
integrated circuits for telecommunications, network, automotive, computer, and
consumer products. Oki's product lines include telecommunications, RF, laser,
networking, speech synthesis, ASIC, microcontroller, and memory devices,
offered in a variety of creative packages. Founded in 1977 and headquartered
in Sunnyvale, Calif., Oki Semiconductor is a division of Oki America Inc.,
which is a subsidiary of Oki Electric Industry Co, Ltd. Oki has
ISO-9000-certified manufacturing facilities in Japan and Thailand. Information
on Oki Semiconductor and its products is available through its Web site at:
http://www.okisemi.com .
Oki Semiconductor ... the Right Partner for a Digital World(TM)
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CONTACT:
Alain Dangerfield of Oki Semiconductor,
+1-408-737-6347, or dangerfield@okisemi.com; or Nicholas Walsh of
Neale-May & Partners, +1-650-328-5555, ext. 120, or
nwalsh@nealemay.com, for Oki; or Pam Friedman of Adamya,
+1-408-946-5030, or pamfriedman@adamya.com
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