San Jose, CAC June 1, 2001. . . - Atmel Corporation
(NASDAQ: ATML) released today, in a joint announcement with IVT,
the two companies have agreed to work together to offer total
Bluetooth solutions.Atmel and IVT have signed an Agreement that
allows Atmel to market and sell IVT Bluetooth stacks and profiles
that run on top of Atmel's Bluetooth V1.1 certified
baseband.
IVT currently offers Bluetooth Host Protocol Stack ,
and all the Bluetooth User Profiles running on top of the Atmel
baseband. IVT Bluetooth protocol stacks and profiles have very
small code size, and can be further integrated with Atmel baseband
onto a single chip.This is extremely attractive for customers
developing embedded applications because it allows the elimination
of the host processor.
Dr. Qiang GAO, IVT CEO said, "We are very pleased to work
closely with Atmel in the Bluetooth arena. With IVT Europe, IVT
USA and our R&D center in Asia, we are well placed to support
our customer base globally.After considerable testing by both IVT
and Atmel, the IVT Bluetooth Stack is running well in conjunction
with Atmel's Bluetooth Module. With the addition of the first
commercially released Conformance and Interoperability Tester, IVT
can offer Atmel's customers a turn-key solution of stacks,
profiles, and tester"
Richard Bisset, Atmel's Product Marketing Director further
commented, "Working with IVT now allows Atmel to offer our
customers a complete Bluetooth solution. What is especially
attractive is our customers can design in an Atmel based solution
today and be in the market in a very short time. Based on our
recently 1.1 certified baseband, a 1.1 certified RF transceiver
from Silicon Wave and software from IVT, Atmel has a very powerful
solution."
Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San
Jose, California with principal manufacturing facilities in North
America and Europe. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets
worldwide, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and RF
semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system-level
integration semiconductor solutions using CMOS, BiCMOS, bipolar
SiGe, and high-voltage BCDMOS process technologies.
Atmel, the Atmel logo and combinations thereof and others
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Press Contacts:
Bob Henderson, Director of Marketing
Communications bhenderson@atmel.com Tel: (408) 451-2855 Richard
Bisset, Product Marketing Director rbisset@atmel.com Tel: (919)
462-6540 About IVT
IVT is a worldwide leader in providing a full range of
Bluetooth? Solutions, including protocol stack source code,
profiles source code, protocol analyzer, interoperability &
conformance testers and a variety of reference designs. IVT was
the first to release the Bluetooth Protocol Stack SDL/C source
code (Bluelet™ ) in November 1999, followed by the first Bluetooth
Conformance Tester (BlueTester™) in September 2000. IVT is a
Bluetooth SIG Associate Member.
IVT has sales offices in Canada, Europe, USA, Korea, Taiwan, an
R&D center in China, and a worldwide customer base. For more
information, please visit www.ivtcorporation.com
Communications Contact:
For Asia/Pacific - Jack Yang
- Jack.Yang@ivtcorporation.com
For Europe - Joe
Amodio-joeamodio@aol.com
For USA - Arnold Lingwall -
arnielingwall@msn.com
The Bluetooth trademarks are owned by
Bluetooth SIG, Inc. USA , and licensed to IVT and Atmel.
