RFI Global Services Launches Bluetooth EDR Test Capability

Basingstoke, UK -- RFI Global Services Ltd has launched its Bluetooth Enhanced Data Rate test capability. RFI has worked closely with CSR and has now developed a test system that utilizes CSR test scripts and a range of hardware.

RFI is currently the only Bluetooth Qualification Test Facility in the UK.

The market for EDR is expected to grow rapidly as product manufacturers migrate more of their products to benefit from the 3 times higher data rates and lower power consumption figures (key for the battery life of mobile handsets), both available with CSR's BlueCore4 product family for EDR. More than 1,000 end products now utilize CSR's BlueCore Bluetooth technology. One year after the launch of the Bluetooth v2.0+EDR specification, CSR's BlueCore4 remains the only EDR silicon inside any qualified end product.

RFI plans to further extend its Bluetooth EDR test capability to include products that incorporate EDR technology based on other chipset manufacturers' technology. It is predicted that by the year-end all Bluetooth chipsets will support EDR.

Mobile phones remain by far the largest single market for Bluetooth silicon. In 2004 CSR supplied its BlueCore silicon to 55 per cent of all Bluetooth-enabled handset designs. CSR's BlueCore technology accounts for over 50 per cent of volume Bluetooth silicon shipments.

SOURCE: RFI Global Services Ltd.