The Hindu Business Line : ‘Demand for combo solutions growing’

Bangalore, Sept. 14 Laptops and smartphones will soon come with a combination of wireless technologies — Bluetooth and Wifi, according to a trend identified by Wipro-NewLogic.

“A trend in wireless IP integration is combo solutions where different wireless technologies co-exist in the same device – especially useful in laptops and smartphones. We are seeing a lot of demand for combo solutions such as Bluetooth and WLAN, WLAN and WiMAX, WiMAX and Bluetooth and Bluetooth over UWB,” said Mr Mana Coste, Director-Marketing at Wipro-NewLogic. The firm has been ranked as the top supplier of Wireless LAN and Bluetooth IP worldwide, according to analyst firm Gartner Inc’s recently published Semiconductor IP Survey.

The company’s Bluetooth portfolio consists of the Bluetooth baseband core, a full Bluetooth software protocol stack, and a Bluetooth CMOS RF transceiver.

Bluetooth portfolio

It supports the Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR specification, and will be compatible with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with a software upgrade.

The target for these IPs are customers integrating wireless connectivity in their ASICs and SoC devices. Target applications include laptops, mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players/PMP with audio/video streaming capability from Internet to PC, digital still cameras, headsets and access points.

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