(PRWEB) November 30, 2002
Fujitsu and IAR Systems form partnership for Bluetooth products
Frankfurt, November 28 2002 – Fujitsu Microelectronics and IAR Systems announced today a partnership covering the Bluetooth wireless technology. IAR Systems has adapted and optimised its Embedded Bluetooth Protocol Stack software for Fujitsus Bluetooth modules used in Bluetooth products worldwide. Fujitsu customers will also benefit from the partnership, which covers customer support and engineering services.
The co-operation will focus on the most important areas of Bluetooth wireless technology for mutual customers, in order to decrease development and production costs by providing superior tools and services. In addition, customers will receive increased connectivity of applications developed with software tools from IAR Systems. The IAR Embedded Bluetooth Protocol Stack and the IAR MakeApp configuration and optimisation tool will have added support for the Fujitsu Bluetooth modules.
The Embedded Bluetooth Protocol Stack from IAR Systems is one of the most compact in the world, bringing down manufacturing costs in serial production due to reduced consumption of CPU and ROM/RAM memory resources (
IAR Systems is the only company in the world that can provide a complete set of development and test tools for Bluetooth products. These include compilers, debug tools, Bluetooth Starter Kits, Bluetooth protocol stacks and a test and pre-qualification tool, IAR PreQual, that tests whether a Bluetooth product conforms to the Bluetooth specification.
Our long-term goal is to provide complete solutions and support, which meet all the very demanding requirements of our Bluetooth module customers, said Arno Rudolph, Strategic Marketing Manager Mobile at Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe. With IAR Systems as our approved software partner, customers are assured of smooth and cost-effective system integration of the Fujitsu modules.
The Bluetooth partnership with Fujitsu strengthens IAR Systems position as the leading supplier of development tools for Bluetooth products, says Lars-Erik Stenkil, Business Development Manager at IAR Systems in Sweden. At the same time, Fujitsu customers get a highly compact Bluetooth protocol stack which in turn reduces the development and production costs for the complete Bluetooth product.
About Fujitsu Microelectronics
Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe is a major supplier of semiconductor products to the European and global market. The company’s main business focus is on providing systems solutions to the networking/telecommunications, mobile communications, automotive and multimedia markets.
Fujitsu offers a broad range of semiconductor devices, including telecommunications ICs, RF devices, MPEG encoders and decoders, microcontrollers and microprocessors, FCRAMs and Flash memory. The company is also a leader in colour plasma display panels. For more information visit Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe’s website at http://www.fme.fujitsu.com
About IAR Systems
By focusing on the embedded systems industry, IAR Systems has reached the position of leading supplier of software development tools for embedded microcontrollers. Since the company was founded in 1983, it has worked in close co-operation with the worlds major chip manufacturers to develop a wide range of programming tools supporting a large number of chip architectures.
The tools today consist of highly efficient C and EC++ compilers in the IAR Embedded Workbench development environment, the device driver wizard IAR MakeApp for graphical configuration and initialisation of the chip and creation of complete device drivers, and the IAR visualSTATE® graphic programming tool with a patented technology to generate validated and small production-ready code.
IAR Systems also provides a total solution for Bluetooth protocol stacks and applications, from development of Bluetooth devices to qualification, using IAR PreQual. IAR Design Services injects engineering expertise and experience into embedded system projects. It contributes to IARs mission to reduce the development time for embedded systems and accelerate time-to-market. IAR Systems has offices in the US, UK, Japan, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. More information is available at http://www.iar.com.
IAR Embedded Workbench, IAR C-SPY, IAR MakeApp, IAR visualSTATE and IAR PreQual are trademarks owned by IAR Systems. The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., U.S.A. and licensed to IAR Systems AB. All other products are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners
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