LMX5001

LMX5001 Dedicated Bluetooth Link Controller PRELIMINARY April 2000 LMX5001 Dedicated Bluetooth Link Controller General Description The LMX5001 Dedicated Bluetooth™ Link Controller has been designed to interface with the LMX3162, Single Chip Radio Transceiver to provide a rapid design path to a complete Bluetooth physical layer. The LMX5001 also offers a low power and cost competitive solution to the Bluetooth Link Controller function. The LMX5001 can be attached to a Link Management Controller, or Host processor performing the Link Management function to implement a complete Bluetooth interface. Bluetooth is a world-wide recognized wireless communication standard, which operates in the ISM band (2.4 GHz), offering a low cost and convenient wireless replacement for data/voice cable links between fixed and mobile electronic devices. Utilizing a GFSK modulation scheme, with frequency hopping, Bluetooth is able to offer a low power, low cost, robust and spectrally efficient spread spectrum packet data system. n Piconet and Scatternet communication capable n Good Bluetooth radio range coverage (when coupled with the LMX3162) n Support for RSSI channel quality monitoring n Bluetooth Encryption Engine Applications n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n PCMCIA Cards Mobile Phones Laptop PCs Palmtop PCs Desktop PCs Computer Peripherals Wireless Modems PDAs Palmtops P.O.T.S Digital Cameras Fax Printers Bar-code Readers Notepads Cordless Headsets In-vehicle Communications Features n Blue...