ABSTRACT
The widespread deployment of wireless communication infrastructures is turning the dream of being always connected to reality. The remarkable growth of wireless communications owes much to the impressive reduction in mobile equipment costs brought about by the continuous advances in microelectronics. The Bluetooth technology asks for low-cost, low-power, moderate performance transceivers to allow a wide diffusion in portable electronic devices. Most of the Bluetooth commercial solutions employ inexpensive, fully integrated complimentary metal oxide semiconductor low- intermediate frequency receivers with an intermediate frequency of 1 or 2 MHz. Bluetooth technology can be used to provide ad hoc networks or data/voice access points. In the field of low power, low data rate wireless personal area networking, Bluetooth is the prevailing solution. The increasing demand for wireless services other than voice, such as high data rate Internet access and short-range radio connectivity, is raising the interest for a multistandard radio terminal, capable of satisfying both voice and data services.
