IAR PreQual Interoperability tester now listed as a Qualified Bluetooth® product

IAR Systems announced today that IAR PreQual-the Bluetooth interoperability debug and test tool-has now been approved as a qualified test instrument for interoperability tests of the following Bluetooth profiles: Handsfree (HFP), Headset (HSP), File transfer (FTP), Object push (OPP), Synchronization (SYP) and Dial-up networking (DUN).

(PRWEB) November 22, 2003 --Bluetooth is a wireless technology that is implemented into more than 50 million devices of about 300 products throughout the whole world. To secure that these products can communicate/interoperate with each other, there is an urgent need for interoperability test instruments like IAR PreQual.

Announcing the IAR PreQual qualification, Mr Anumeet Singh, PreQual Product Manager, IAR Systems, said, We are very happy to see that IAR PreQual, that has been used for several years now to qualify Bluetooth interoperability in mobile phones, finally has obtained an official Bluetooth qualification. PreQual deserves this official recognition of the job it does to secure Bluetooth interoperability. PreQual represents a new class of test instruments that is a very strong alternative to the current DPIT process that has failed completely so far."

About IAR PreQual

PreQual is addressing the urgent need from the manufacturers of Bluetooth enabled products for a combined debug and test instrument that helps them to secure that their products are fully interoperable with other Bluetooth products. IAR PreQual is an instrumented implementation of the Bluetooth test specifications made for the Bluetooth development engineers. Other instrumented Bluetooth test specifications in the IAR PreQual product suite are: LAN Access Profile, Personal Area Network (PAN), Human Interface Device (HID),Generic Audio Video Profile (GAVDP), Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP), Audio Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP). All of these are also due for qualification shortly.

IAR PreQual has been on the market since 1999. It started as a reference test instrument with the mobile phone manufacturers but is today widely used all across the Bluetooth industry.

About IAR Systems
By focusing on the embedded systems industry, IAR Systems has reached the position of leading supplier of software development tools. Since the company was founded in 1983, IAR has worked in close cooperation with the worlds major chip manufacturers to develop a wide range of programming tools supporting a large number of chip architectures. The current tool chain comprises: IAR Embedded Workbench highly efficient C and EC++ compilers, IAR MakeApp, the device driver wizard for graphical configuration and initialization of device drivers, IAR visualSTATE graphic programming tool with a patented technology to generate validated and small production-ready code, IAR Embedded Bluetooth stack, a host stack optimized for memory critical applications and IAR PreQual a test and debug instrument for Bluetooth engineering. IARs mission is to reduce the development time for embedded systems and accelerate time-to-market. IAR Systems is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange and has offices in the US, UK, Japan, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. More information is available at www.iar.com.
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For further information, please contact:
USA:
Rachelle Siskin, Sales & Marketing, IAR Systems INC
Phone no: +1 650 287 4250
E-mail: rachelle@iar.com

EUROPE:
Lars Sjöberg, Bluetooth Sales Mgr, IAR Systems AB
Phone no: +46 8 506 024 22
E-mail: lars.sjoberg@iar.se

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