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December 2002 - Ericsson
Technology Licensing announced that it has signed a
licensing agreement to provide its latest Bluetooth
radio core, the K-D1, to National Semiconductor, a premier
analog company focused on the market for wireless handsets.
National plans to introduce products incorporating Ericsson's
radio next year.
The
Bluetooth radio core K-D1 from Ericsson gives National
Semiconductor a Bluetooth design solution that can be
completely ported into its manufacturing process. This
enables National Semiconductor to differentiate products
for different manufacturing processes and different
market segments.
"National's
broad portfolio of Bluetooth products, from chip sets
to modules to accessories, will be enhanced by our licensing
agreement with Ericsson," said Jean-Louis Bories, Executive
Vice President of National Semiconductor's IA and Wireless
Division. "We are strong believers in Bluetooth and
the added value Bluetooth solutions provide customers
in applications such as mobile handsets and PDAs. "
"By
signing a licensing agreement with National Semiconductor,
one of the world's top semiconductor companies, we have
taken a big step toward reaching our goal of integrating
our Bluetooth solution into mass market consumer products,"
says Maria Khorsand, President of Ericsson Technology
Licensing. "This puts new fuel into the Bluetooth market
- where the demand for chips is expected to grow more
than 300 percent next year."
The
fourth generation radio is the latest in Bluetooth radio
design and features complete on-chip integration of
the radio front end using a 0.18-micron RFCMOS process
with some key features as lowest external components
count and no radio sensitive external components. The
package includes evaluation hardware and design database,
as well as simulation results and schematics. Furthermore,
qualified samples manufactured in the foundry mother
process are also included. This has been proven to accelerate
the process of porting and to minimize engineering efforts.
SOURCE
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