Texas Instruments' TRF6001 High Sensitivity RF Transceiver Achieves BLUETOOTH™ Certification
TI Offers BLUETOOTH™-Qualified Chipset
DALLAS (March 1, 2001) -- In another move to give consumers the ability to wirelessly connect electronic equipment via BLUETOOTH(tm) personal area networks, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today announced that its high sensitivity Bipolar-CMOS (BiCMOS) radio frequency (RF) transceiver has achieved BLUETOOTH certification. 7 Layers AG, a BLUETOOTH qualification body, awarded TI's TRF6001 RF device certification status in February, due to its ability to meet and exceed the worldwide BLUETOOTH standard. With today's announcement, TI now offers manufacturers of BLUETOOTH enabled wireless products, a complete certified solution - the newly RF qualified device coupled with TI's RAM-based BSN6020 baseband processor, which was certified in November 2000. For more information about TI's BLUETOOTH solutions, please visit http://www.ti.com/sc/bluetooth. For more information about BLUETOOTH-certified products, please visit http://qualweb.opengroup.org/Template.cfm?LinkQualified=QualifiedProducts.
"We are pleased to have been granted certification, as it adds further credibility for our field-proven BLUETOOTH chipsets," said Ari Rauch, general manager for TI's Short-Distance Wireless Business Unit based in Israel. "We are committed to providing robust solutions to enable wireless connectivity and will continue to work with our customers to integrate our BLUETOOTH solutions into a wide variety of wireless products across multiple end equipments."
Providing up to 1 Mbps in data transmission, the BLUETOOTH standard utilizes the 2.4 Gigahertz (GHz) worldwide unlicensed band and is a leading standard for the emerging short distance wireless market. As home and office networking continues to gain momentum, wireless networking technology such as BLUETOOTH will be increasingly significant, as consumers find they can simplify networking within their homes and offices by using such "no wires" networks. By raising the bar in industry performance, TI's BLUETOOTH solutions are helping to make these wireless personal area networks a reality today.
TI Delivers Greater Range and Wireless Link Robustness
The TRF6001 is a BLUETOOTH RF transceiver chip that offers enhanced receiver sensitivity of -86dBm, 16dB better than required in the BLUETOOTH specification. This enhanced sensitivity, being one of the best on the market, allows for significantly greater operating range. The TRF6001 incorporates various mechanisms to deliver superior performance in the presence of interference, thus offering enhanced wireless link robustness. The TRF6001 is packaged in a small outline 5x5mm, 56 MicroStar Junior™ (Ball Grid Array) BGA package.
First TI Certified Chipset Solution
The TRF6001 forms the RF part for both the RAM based BSN6020 point to point BLUETOOTH baseband and the ROM-based BSN6030 baseband announced in September of 2000. The BSN6020 was certified by the Bluetooth Qualification Board (BQB) in November 2000 and has been sampling since 2Q2000. Looking ahead, TI will continue to focus on delivering robust, certified solutions for the short-distance wireless market space, both for point-to-point and for point-to-multipoint wireless applications. The certification of the TRF6001 RF transceiver is indicative of TI's commitment to accelerating integration of BLUETOOTH into consumer appliances and to enabling seamless short-distance wireless connectivity.
# # #
Trademarks:
BLUETOOTH is a trademark owned by its proprietor and used by TI under license.
MicroStar Junior BGA is a trademark of Texas Instruments Incorporated.
| 
