BLUETOOTH (WIRELESS) 17 January, 2003
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6.14 BLUETOOTH (WIRELESS)
6.14.1 SPECIFICATIONS
Bluetooth wireless provides radio links between mobile computers, mobile phones
and other portable handheld devices.
Bluetooth contains the following features.
• Cheaper compared to the IEEE802.11b wireless LAN.
• Many protocols for infrared transmission (IrDA) can be used with Bluetooth.
• A Bluetooth device can connect to other Bluetooth devices without any settings.
Standard applied: Bluetooth 1.1 (Bluetooth Special Interest Group)
Data transfer rates: 1 Mbps
Bandwidth: 2.4GHz Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS)
6.14.2 BLOCK DIAGRAM
Controller Board
Parallel I/F
Interface Board
PCMCIA
Card Bus
Controller
Bluetooth
PCMCIA Card
CN3
CN4
G080D981.WMF