Introduction; Casira Overview - CSR BlueCore Casira User Manual

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Introduction

The Casira User Guide is intended to help you set up your Casira and to quickly familiarise yourself with its
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development tools. This document will guide you through the installation of software and provide you with
instruction on how to use Casira's features.
This guide provides a brief overview of CSR's BlueSuite
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utilities. BlueSuite includes BlueChat2, BlueFlash, PSTools, BlueTest and BTCLI. These utilities will
help you with your own Bluetooth
Section 7, Other Applications, describes additional useful applications. It introduces the Device Firmware
Upgrade (DFU) software and tools to upgrade Casira's flash memory, the BlueLab
Kit (SDK) for embedded application development, the Bluetooth for Windows
TesEngine and TestFlash to develop test applications.
Section 8, Technical Support, provides contact information for technical assistance.
In addition to the firmware and documentation provided with your Casira Development Kit, more information and
updates are available on the CSR support website at www.csrsupport.com.
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Casira Overview

The Casira unit features the following:
Motherboard containing host I/O and man-machine interface elements including RS232 and USB drivers
and external connector, audio codec and external audio socket for a headset, plus internal connectors
for PIO lines, audio PCM stream and synchronous serial interfaces.
Module, which includes the following items:
BlueCore chip (an advanced single-chip Bluetooth device)
Flash memory device (which stores BlueCore's firmware and Persistent Store)
Antenna (which allows communication with other Bluetooth devices)
Casira ships with BlueCore2-External devices. The BlueCore2-External module design is a Class 2 device (see
the BlueCore2 Class 2 module design BC2MOD2C on the CSR support website). Datasheets for
BlueCore2-External are available on the CSR support website.
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