The babyboard enables customers to develop their upper layer software in a safe test environment.
Applications range from communications and computing to automotive and home appliances.
It will also be useful to distributors wanting to demonstrate Philips Semiconductors' chips in action. Blueberry is a second generation IC that provides an integrated one-chip baseband solution for Bluetooth wireless technology. Another key component on the babyboard is the UAA3558 BiCMOS IC, which is a single chip transceiver IC with a high sensitivity. It features a fully integrated receiver, from antenna filter output to the demodulated data output, an integrated VCO, a synthesizer to implement Bluetooth channel frequencies and a transmitter pre-amplifier to drive either the switch diode to an antenna or a power amplifier. It also underlines Philips Semiconductors' ability to offer total system solutions for Bluetooth wireless technology.