Spreadtrum Communications selects CSR connection positioning technology as the reference design for smartphones

CSR plc (London Stock Exchange code: CSR; Nasdaq Stock Exchange code: CSRE) has announced that China's fabless semiconductor manufacturer Spreadtrum Communications Limited (Nasdaq Stock Exchange code: SPRD) has chosen CSR as Its Spreadtrum SC8805G TD-SCDMA and SC6810 EDGE / WIFI low-cost smart phone reference designs provide connectivity and positioning technologies to meet the market demands of China and emerging markets for Internet access, data transfer and location functions. Specifically, CSR will provide Spreadtrum with CSR6027 â„¢ Wi-Fi solution, SiRFstarIV â„¢ positioning platform and Bluetooth technology. This decision is a continuation of the partnership between CSR and Spreadtrum on the feature phone platform. The connection, positioning and Bluetooth technologies provided by CSR on the feature phone platform are now shipping in large quantities.

Ahmet Alpdemir, Senior Vice President of CSR ’s Mobile Business Unit, said: “Spreadtrum has played an important role in helping Chinese manufacturers take advantage of the smartphone revolution, providing them with low-cost, easy-to-integrate processors and reference designs to accelerate the development of their wireless communications products. Time to market. We believe that this cooperation is a good way to continue to expand our participation in China and other emerging markets of smart phones in the economy. "

CSR6027 / 6030 is part of CSR's UniFi® product line. It is also a WAPI certified version of the CSR6026 ™ single-chip solution for the Chinese market, providing Wi-Fi 802.11n support for mobile embedded devices such as smartphones. This product can provide manufacturers with low-cost, high-performance Wi-Fi support with high power consumption and a small PCB footprint. CSR6027 has PowerSave (power saving) function to ensure that mobile devices reach the best battery life, achieve a very small system footprint and extremely low eBom (electronic bill of materials), easy to integrate into mobile devices.

SiRFstarIV is a market-leading positioning platform that has been deployed in hundreds of consumer electronics products worldwide, providing it with excellent search and tracking performance and high accuracy, low power consumption, and active interference cancellation. These features will help consumers with SC8805G and SC6810 devices to achieve the lowest power consumption and best positioning speed, whether in dense jungle or urban canyons.

About SC8805G and SC6810

The SC8805G for TD-SCDMA and the SC6810 for EDGE / Wi-Fi both have hardware reference designs and reference software that pass the test standards, which helps shorten time to market. Both chips are based on the ARM-9 600MHz processor, support Android 2.2, 2D images, up to five megapixel camera, MPEG4 decoder and encoder, HVGA touch screen LCD display and a series of connection options, including Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth.

About CSR

CSR is a global provider of innovative chips and software solutions for location awareness, multimedia, and cloud connectivity. CSR's platform is specifically optimized for car navigation and entertainment information systems, digital cameras and imaging technologies, home-connected entertainment information systems, and wireless audio markets. CSR provides solutions to the complex problems in the audio-visual, interconnection and location technology fields that span multiple different markets. The technical product series include GPS / GNSS systems, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, FM, NFC, aptX and CVC audio codecs JPEG, MPEG, H.264 imaging, IPS printing, microcontroller, DSP and broadband receiver. CSR's technical solutions and market platforms help customers provide superior user experience and are adopted by leading manufacturers in the automotive, computer, home and mobile markets.