Microchip Partners with CSR to Offer Easy Access to Bluetooth® Smart Technology

San Jose, CA and Cambridge, UK, July 31, 2014 (Newswire.com) - CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) today announces that Microchip Technology Inc. has launched its new Bluetooth® Smart module based on the CSR1012™ solution. Microchip is a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions and has developed the BLE RN4020 module, an easy and complete turnkey solution, which takes CSR’s industry proven and highly flexible Bluetooth Smart ICs to a wider range of customers.

The FCC and ETSI compliant module gives developers access to CSR’s market-leading Bluetooth Smart technology. The module is supported by Microchip’s MPLAB® X Integrated Development Environment, which provides developers with access to a large library of example Bluetooth Smart development code. This eases and accelerates prototype production and enables developers to get their products to market quicker.

CSR is helping fuel innovation and the growth of new consumer products by making its Bluetooth Smart solutions accessible to as wide a developer base as possible. This module makes Bluetooth Smart incredibly simple to use. It will enable both starter and more experienced developers to easily and quickly develop a range of devices from health and fitness monitors to retail beacons and smart home appliances that will power the fast growing Internet of Things.

Anthony Murray, Senior Vice President, Business Group at CSR

Microchip chose CSR as a Bluetooth Smart chip supplier due to CSR’s strong reputation for Bluetooth technology and because the two companies share an established history of supporting customers through to the end of a product’s lifecycle.

“CSR is helping fuel innovation and the growth of new consumer products by making its Bluetooth Smart solutions accessible to as wide a developer base as possible,” said Anthony Murray, Senior Vice President, Business Group at CSR. “This module makes Bluetooth Smart incredibly simple to use. It will enable both starter and more experienced developers to easily and quickly develop a range of devices from health and fitness monitors to retail beacons and smart home appliances that will power the fast growing Internet of Things.”

CSR1012 provides a smaller form factor package ensuring that the module has minimal impact on size constrained designs. Measuring 11.5 x 19.5 x 2.5mm, the RN4020 module has a built-in PCB antenna with 7 dBm transmit power and a receive sensitivity of -92.5 dBm, enabling operation over 100 metres.

BLE RN4020 is available now and can be purchased from Microchip's website.

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This press release contains certain statements (including statements concerning plans and objectives of management for future operations or performance, or assumptions related thereto) that are not historical facts and constitute ‘forward looking statements’ within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 in relation to CSR’s Bluetooth® Smart platforms, including the CSR1012™ solution, and their performance characteristics in consumer electronic products, and other future events and their potential effects on CSR. These forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as ‘will,’ ‘can deliver,’ offers', 'allows', 'to enhance,’ ‘enables,’ 'designed to' and other similar expressions regarding the performance characteristics of CSR’s Bluetooth® Smart platforms, including the CSR1012™ solution , and their performance characteristics in consumer electronics products, and their potential effects on CSR. Any future release of CSR’s Bluetooth® Smart platforms, including the CSR1012™ solution or consumer electronics products containing such technology, related products or modifications to such products’ capability, functionality or features are subject to ongoing evaluation by CSR and its customers, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments by CSR or its customers and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. Such forward-looking statements represent the current expectations and beliefs of management of CSR, and are based upon numerous assumptions regarding CSR’s business strategies and the environment in which CSR will operate and therefore involve a number of known and unknown risks, contingencies, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of CSR, including, but not limited to, those detailed from time to time in CSR’s periodic reports (whether under the caption Risk Factors or Forward Looking Statements or elsewhere), which are available at the SEC’s web site http://www.sec.gov. Each forward looking statement speaks only as of the date hereof. CSR does not undertake to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward looking statements contained herein, otherwise than required by law.

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