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Cambridge Consultant's Interface Express Software

Partnerships with Bluetooth Leaders for Complete Solution

To ensure a complete and easy-to-integrate solution, IPextreme worked with leading providers of Bluetooth upper stack software and Bluetooth radio hardware. IPextreme partnered with Cambridge Consultants to develop the Bluetooth lower stack that is included with the IPextreme XBlue 1200 core, and offers Cambridge Consultant's upper stack and profiles to XBlue 1200 users. The combination of Cambridge Consultant's upper stack Bluetooth software and the XBlue 1200 core provides a complete and fast-to-market solution for customers wanting to incorporate Bluetooth into new or existing designs.

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Cambridge Consultant's Interface Express Software

The Cambridge Consultant's product family provides for rapid, low-risk and cost-effective Bluetooth application development for IPextreme's XBlue 1200 as well as other Bluetooth solutions. Cambridge Consultant's flagship product, Interface ExpressT, takes away the complexities of Bluetooth communications and enables users to create and test custom profiles in minutes.

The Interface Express toolkit provides the following benefits to developers:

  • Interface Express, a powerful PC-hosted configuration tool that produces fully working skeleton applications, for example, Bluetooth printing for embedded, Win32 Console, or MFC targets, in minutes.
  • BlueStack®, Cambridge Consultant's qualified higher layer Bluetooth v1.2 protocol software, includes optional and mandatory protocol features, such as : HCI, L2CAP, RFCOMM, SDP and TCS
  • Qualified to version 1.2 of the Bluetooth specification and utilized in the majority of qualified Bluetooth designs
  • Code, including many examples, written in ANSI C and C++ for maximum portability, with no restriction on porting architectures or OS environments
  • Code has been successfully ported to ARM7, V850, XAP2, PowerPC, Intel Pentium and Motorola 68K architectures, and PalmOS, Win32, WinCE, Linux, QNX, and REX operating systems
  • Debug support in the form of Watch Windows
  • Comprehensive user guides, API descriptions, and design documents
  • Interface Express profile abstraction software supports the following: SDAP, SPP, OPP, Sync, FTP, BPP, BIP, DU, LAN, HSP, HFP, HCRP, CTP, Intercom, FAX, and more
  • Modular, extensible, scalable architecture at both profile and protocol levels, with either profile or protocol level APIs

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Using Interface Express Software
This diagram shows the components typically required to add Bluetooth to
a mobile telephone. The consistent approach to integration
with the software makes it very easy to support many profiles.

Simplified Integration
The toolkit provides reference applications to enable developers to get started quickly. Examples include:

The Interface Express toolkit provides the following benefits to developers:

  • CTP access point
  • Printer interface
  • In-car Hands-free with phonebook download
  • Advanced headset
  • Phone access data acquisition
  • Storage device access
  • Serial Port remote control and data transfer

Software with an Impressive Pedigree
Cambridge Consultants has been developing standards-based on-chip radio software for many years. As a member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, Cambridge Consultants has been involved from the early days of the development of the Bluetooth standard. Today, their software forms the basis of over 65% of all qualified Bluetooth designs including mobile telephones from Samsung, NEC and Alcatel.

Their qualified Bluetooth profiles include (alphabetically):
AVRCP - A2DP - BIP - BPP - CTP - DUN - FAX - FTP - GAP - GOEP - HFP - HCRP - HSP - HID - ICP - OPP - PAN - SAP - SDAP - SPP - SYN