In an effort to accelerate the adoption of the Bluetooth standard, innoCOMM wireless has introduced a single chip Bluetooth radio transceiver ICM3101 that promises to reduce power consumption.

• Manufactured using 0.25 micron standard digital CMOS technology, allowing the company to deliver it at low cost.
• Operates in the 2.4 to 2.5 GHz band, which is the global standard for Bluetooth.
• Peak connection rate reaching 1 Mbps, enabling wideband short-range data communication.
• No external filters or inductors, which reduces both bill of materials and printed circuit board real estate requirements.
• Embedded radio technology that allows the chip to run at a lower power when idle.

Ken Lazarus, vice president of engineering at innoCOMM, said that the real benefit of the ICM3101 is that we were able to achieve power efficiencies similar to those normally attributed to Silicon Germanium, BiCMOS and silicon-on-insulator technologies without sacrificing its other assets, such performance, chip size, and integration.