Wireless Headset Innovation
The wireless headset has taken another giant leap as just this past week CSR, the global leader in Bluetooth technology, announced that its technology will be incorporated into Gennum's nXZEN noise canceling headset. The reason the Gennum firm chose the CSR BlueCore to deliver its bluetooth enabled wireless headset connectivity for the nXZEn headset was because CSR is extensively interoperable. They pretested the CSR technology and products and found excellent wireless headset connectivity to any type of mobile phone. The nXZEN is v1.2 qualified for Bluetooth, and offers stand by time of up to 100 hours or seven hours of talk time. It is now being shipped worldwide.
Gennum's wireless headset will be advantageous as a result of the CSR low consumption of power and its open architecture. This will be able to support any external third party DSPs such as Gennum's 120 MIPS DSP, a world leader.
CSR, besides its wireless headset, provides a wide range of standard technologies and solutions for customers that are designing their Bluetooth headsets. The firm's BlueLab SDK lets customers use the standard CSR solutions and customize them for their own differentiation needs and through innovation. This is possible because BlueLab is enabled with a protected user function so any customization of software won't interfere with the Bluetooth chip operations. As a result, they need to do very little second testing, and can get to market more quickly.
CSR plc, along with its noteworthy wireless headset technology and products, is the leading provider anywhere in the world of Bluetooth technology. The firm has ongoing expertise as well in additional wireless communication one-chip standards such as Wi-Fi. Its software and hardware solution developments for Bluetooth are based on its BlueCore design. BlueCore is a completely integrated radio of 2.4 GHz, with a microcontroller and baseband.
The fifth generation of the legendary BlueCore suite has just been launched and the fourth generation of devices for BlueCore are being manufactured on an ever greater scale. BlueCore4 supports the standard for wireless headset and other similar technology, called the Enhanced Data Rate (EDR.). This was ratified towards the end of 2004. CSR's BlueCore4 is still the only EDR based silicon exported or imported of any significant volume anywhere on the globe.
This wireless headset innovator launched UniFi in November of 2004, as the first embedded single chip solution that specifically targeted the consumer electronic and cell phone markets.
CSR and its wireless headset manufacture has offices and its headquarters in the UK, in Cambridge. Other offices are in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, France, India, Denmark, and Sweden. In the U.S. the wireless headset production by CSR are in Texas and Detroit.