***Olympia International Holdings Licenses Bluetooth IP from
NewLogic
(March 14)
Olympia International Holdings Ltd., a vendor of modern office
and communication technology, and NewLogic, a supplier of
Bluetooth intellectual property cores, today announced a
licensing deal encompassing NewLogic's BOOST Core and BOOST
Software IP products.
The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, allows Olympia
to develop a cordless telephone product based upon Bluetooth
wireless technology.
Olympia's product is known as the Data-phone and will enable
integrated voice and data transmission both over the public
telephone system and to other Bluetooth enabled devices such as
mobile telephones, PDAs and computers. The Data-phone is based
around a custom integrated circuit that, in turn, utilizes the
BOOST Bluetooth technology as licensed from NewLogic. The Data-
phone will be launched at CEBIT 2002 and mass production is
scheduled from July 2002.
NewLogic's BOOST IP family includes a Bluetooth baseband
processor, a full Bluetooth software protocol stack and a
Bluetooth CMOS radio. These IP elements, when combined with a
suitable microcontroller core, permit the implementation of a
single chip Bluetooth solution using industry standard CMOS
process technologies.
www.olympia-europe.de
Wave Issue 0209 3/15/02 Article 1-02