NEWS FLASH 2000 - 20 (June 2000)
(Updated on June 19,  2000)

Products, Services and Applications

BSQUARE Reveals New Bluetooth Tools for Windows Platforms

For hardware and software developers, BSQUARE Corporation has introduced its new toolkit – Bluetooth™ Extension to WinDK™.   The product is a device driver development toolkit used to enhance the speed of development of hardware and protocol drivers for <Bluetooth> implementation based on the Digianswer A/S Bluetooth Software Stack.

The Bluetooth Extension to WinDK comprises of a set of driver development tools for seamlessly integrating Bluetooth hardware on Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 2000, Windows NT® 4.0, Windows NT Embedded and Windows 98, with Windows CE to follow. With the toolkit, developers will be able to leverage the tested Digianswer stack to enable any Bluetooth hardware on a Windows OS.

Bluetooth Extension to WinDK supports

• The development of hardware drivers for USB, PCI and PCMCIA buses, as well as serial interfaces.

• Other bus types with no unnecessary restrictions 

• Access to the hardware using any combination of Port I/O, Memory I/O, interrupts and DMA.

Beta release of the toolkit is available immediately, with the final release expected early summer.

 For more information, go to http://www.bsquare.com/

Bluetooth Topic:  http://www.mobileinfo.com/mobileinfo_Topics_Hot_BlueTooth.htm

Mobileinfo Comments and Advisory:  BSquare has become a major application development tool developer whose tools are useful for systems integrators. 

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