Head Start in Bluetooth Product Design with DEVA

Cambridge Consultants, a leading technology product design and development firm, has today launched DEVA, the most comprehensive development platform for the rapid development of highly differentiated Bluetooth™ products and mobile accessories.  This general-purpose and highly-flexible platform allows electronics and software engineers to rapidly prototype and test accessory products that deliver new features for users before committing to final product hardware.  By accessing the full power of the BlueCore-5-Multimedia device from Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR), it enables the development of highly differentiated products that maintain very low product cost.

DEVA can be used to develop a range of novel Bluetooth products - from mobile phone accessories and headsets, including for Apple’s iPhone, to wireless payment systems, industrial remote control devices, sports activity monitors or telehealth sensors that can be compliant with the Continua Health Alliance’s guidelines.

The DEVA platform has been optimized to work with all of Cambridge Consultants’ existing software tools and libraries, including their generic Bluetooth tool, xIDE for Interface Express, their Continua Compliant wireless health platform, VENA, and their Internet service accessory platform, CatchNet.  DEVA can also be used with CSR’s BlueLab development suite.

DEVA provides developers with access to the comprehensive features and processing power of CSR’s market leading BlueCore-5-multimedia chip.  DEVA includes a 128x128 monochrome LCD display, three user-interface buttons and LEDs allowing rich user interfaces to be developed for the product.  With USB, Serial and MicroSD interfaces for data integration, a range of GPIO, and both digital and analog stereo audio connection, DEVA can support development of complex products that have the lowest possible cost in their final manufactured form.  Being battery powered, DEVA provides a completely wireless experience. 

“DEVA has been designed to provide a comprehensive environment for development of sophisticated Bluetooth products,” said Tim Fowler, Commercial Director at Cambridge Consultants. “Not only does it speed the development of new versions of established Bluetooth products such as headsets with added capabilities, but it is also enabling the rapid development of new devices in many more diverse markets - medical applications are one example.  We have utilized our extensive experience in this market to deliver a development platform that gives designers a real head start in creating truly differentiated products.”