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Design and Implementation of a Bluetooth Baseband Module with DMA Interface  

Cheon, Ik-Jae (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Chungnam National University)
O, Jong-Hwan (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Im, Ji-Suk (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Bo-Gwan (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Park, In-Cheol (Dept. of Electronic Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Publication Information
Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD / v.39, no.3, 2002 , pp. 98-109 More about this Journal
Abstract
Bluetooth technology is a publicly available specification proposed for Radio Frequency (RF) communication for short-range :1nd point-to-multipoint voice and data transfer. It operates in the 2.4㎓ ISM(Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band and offers the potential for low-cost, broadband wireless access for various mobile and portable devices at range of about 10 meters. In this paper, we describe the structure and the test results of the bluetooth baseband module with direct memory access method we have developed. This module consists of three blocks; link controller, UART interface, and audio CODEC. This module has a bus interface for data communication between this module and main processor and a RF interface for the transmission of bit-stream between this module and RF module. The bus interface includes DMA interface. Compared with the link controller with FIFOs, The module with DMA has a wide difference in size of module and speed of data processing. The small size module supplies lorr cost and various applications. In addition, this supports a firmware upgrade capability through UART. An FPGA and an ASIC implementation of this module, designed as soft If, are tested for file and bit-stream transfers between PCs.
Keywords
Bluetooth; baseband; link controller;
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