RFMD has announced a wireless connectivity platform that enables the integration and coexistence of complementary wireless technologies in mobile phones. The wireless connectivity platform provides a common system architecture for a new family of RFMD wireless connectivity products. The platform expands the capabilities available to mobile phone OEMs and ODMs by enabling new Bluetooth features while also facilitating the integration of complementary technologies such as near field communication (NFC), GPS, FM radio and wireless LAN (WLAN).

Highlights of the platform include open software framework using a 32 MHz or 64 MHz ARM RISC microprocessor core with resources available for software customization, common software API and development environment to enable efficient integration and porting of new software features and protocol stacks, and dynamic allocation of memory to allow optimal space sharing between multiple software functions.

The platform uses active power management logic and multiple voltage domains for low active and standby current consumption. The platform is the basis of a new family of products starting with the RF4020 system-on-chip (SoC) for Bluetooth technology.

The RF4020 implements all mandatory and optional features of the Bluetooth version 2.0 + EDR specification with the capability to support the upcoming version 2.1 (Lisbon) specification.

RFMD also provides a Bluetooth mobile phone software development kit (SDK) to accelerate customers' product development. The SDK integrates the Bluetooth protocol stack and profiles with middleware that facilitates porting into the mobile phone platform.

For more information, visit www.rfmd.com.