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USB Bluetooth dongle design launched by CSR

Friday, 02 November 2007

Cambridge wireless company CSR has launched a USB Bluetooth dongle design that will enable stereo or mono Bluetooth headphones to be used with a PC for Voice over IP (VoIP) calls, as well as the wireless streaming of music. CSR has designed the low cost Music’n’Voice (MV) Bluetooth dongle to allow users to switch seamlessly between listening to music and taking a VoIP call. The MV Dongle design is available now from CSR, including BOM, reference design and software development kit (SDK). The example reference design is a single chip solution using CSR’s BlueCore3-Multimedia chip with integrated DSP processor and high-quality codec. Very few external components are required, enabling CSR to offer the MV Dongle with a very low BOM - leaving open the option for these dongles to be bundled with mobile phones or Bluetooth headsets. CSR’s MV Dongle supports all major VoIP providers such as MSN, Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo Talk. Skype has at least 200 million registered users, highlighting the growing interest in VoIP services. As more of our communications become PC-centred, it makes sense to allow users to communicate wirelessly, anywhere around the home using a Bluetooth headset. Anthony Murray, senior VP for CSR’s wireless audio strategic business unit, said: “Customers are telling us that Bluetooth headsets are growing in popularity and since more devices support the necessary Bluetooth profiles, we could well see CSR-based Music’n’Voice dongles bundled with handsets and Bluetooth headsets, to offer end users a wider application for their Bluetooth headsets.”

 

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