User's Manual
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1 DEFINITIONS
Bluetooth A set of technologies providing short range audio and data transfer over
radio connections.
BlueCore
Single chip Bluetooth System from CSR.
1.1 Acronyms and Abbreviations
ADC Analogue to Digital Converter
AGC Automatic Gain Control – part of the radio
API Application Program Interface
bc01 BlueCore
TM
01 – CSR Bluetooth chip
BCSP BlueCore
TM
Serial Protocol
BIST Built-in Self Test
CCL Cambridge Consultants Ltd
CVSD Continuously Variable Slope Delta (modulation)
DAC Digital to Analogue Converter
DLL Win32 Dynamic Link Library.
EXE Win32 executable
GUI Graphical User Interface
HCI Host Controller Interface
ISM Industrial, Scientific and Medical – unlicensed radio band at 2.4 GHz
L2CAP Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol – a Bluetooth protocol
stack layer
LM Link Manager – a Bluetooth protocol stack
LNA Low Noise Amplifier
PA Power Amplifier
PCM Pulse Coded Modulation – digitised audio sample stream
PIO Parallel input/output
RF Radio Frequency
RFCOMM Serial cable emulation protocol – a Bluetooth protocol stack layer
Scheduler
The BlueCore01 operating kernel. A simple co-operative multi-
tasking scheduler with event queues and memory pool management.
SCO Synchronous Connection Oriented