Blue Star

Monday, 21 September 2020 21:55

Renesas Extends Bluetooth 5.0 Connectivity to RA Family of 32-Bit MCUs with Arm Cortex-M Core

Enhanced Security and Privacy for Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy Connections Supported with Flexible Software Package and Comprehensive Arm Ecosystem.

Renesas Electronics Corporation introduced the first RA microcontroller (MCU) with an integrated Bluetooth® 5.0 Low Energy radio on 07 May 2020. The single-chip RA4W1 MCU includes a 48 MHz, 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M4 core and Bluetooth 5.0 core delivered in a 56-pin QFN package. Together, the RA4W1 MCU and easy-to-use Flexible Software Package (FSP) enables engineers to immediately begin development with Arm ecosystem software and hardware building blocks that work out-of-the-box with RA MCUs.

The RA4W1 MCU makes it easy for embedded designers to develop safe and secure IoT endpoint devices for Industry 4.0, building automation, metering, healthcare, consumer wearable, and home appliance applications. The MCU is also ideal for developing IoT edge devices for wireless sensor networks, IoT hubs, an add-on to gateways, and an aggregator to IoT cloud applications.

Published in Bluetooth chips

Sunday, 20 September 2020 13:37

Ti LAUNCHXL-CC2640R2:CC2640R2F wireless MCU LaunchPad™ development kit

This LaunchPad™ speeds development with a Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) connection using the CC2640R2F or CC2640R2L devices. The compatible SDK offers a fully qualified Bluetooth 5 protocol stack for single-mode BLE applications supporting high speed mode and example Bluetooth 5 coded physical layers (PHY) for long range mode testing. A Bluetooth 4.2 stack is also available.

Price：?29.00

Published in Development Board

Sunday, 20 September 2020 11:04

Ti SimpleLink™ CC2640R2 SDK_Software Development Kit

The SimpleLink CC2640R2 Software Development Kit (SDK) delivers components that enable engineers to develop applications on the Texas Instruments SimpleLink Bluetooth Low Energy CC2640R2F wireless MCU. This powerful software toolkit provides a cohesive and consistent software experience for all SimpleLink CC2640R2F users by packaging essential software components such as the Bluetooth low energy (BLE) protocol stack, TI-RTOS kernel and TI Drivers in one easy-to-use software package along with exhaustive documentation.

Published in Bluetooth 5 (BLE5) Stack

Saturday, 19 September 2020 12:51

Ti SimpleLink Bluetooth® Low Energy wireless MCUs

Low-power wireless standard to easily connect any product to smartphones or tablets

Published in Bluetooth modules

Saturday, 19 September 2020 11:27

What's new with Bluetooth 5

Double the speed,Four times the range,Eight times the broadcasting capacity

High speed mode

2x data throughput
Faster over-the-air downloads
Reduce battery consumption

Long range mode

4x the range with coded PHY rates of 125 kbps
Same TX and RX current consumption
Whole-house coverage

Advertising extension

Reduce load on advertising channels
Initiate long-range connections

Published in Popular Science

Friday, 18 September 2020 23:17

STMicroelectronics Bluetooth low energy expansion board based on the BlueNRG-M0 module for STM32 Nucleo X-NUCLEO-IDB05A2

The X-NUCLEO-IDB05A2 Bluetooth low energy expansion board is based on the BlueNRG-M0 BLE network processor module.

The BlueNRG-M0 is Bluetooth v4.2 compliant, FCC and IC certified (FCC ID: S9NBNRGM0AL; IC: 8976C-BNRGM0AL). It supports simultaneous master/slave roles and can behave as a Bluetooth low energy sensor and hub device at the same time.

The BlueNRG-M0 provides a complete RF platform in a tiny form factor, with integrated radio, antenna, high frequency and LPO oscillators.

The X-NUCLEO-IDB05A2 is compatible with the ST morpho (not mounted) and Arduino UNO R3 connector layout.

The X-NUCLEO-IDB05A2 interfaces with the STM32 microcontroller via the SPI pin and allows changing the default SPI clock, SPI chip select and SPI IRQ by replacing a resistor on the expansion board.

Published in Development Board

Friday, 18 September 2020 22:31

2020 STMicroelectronics STM32 China Roadshow 13-25 Sep

Make your applications more secure and connected with the STM32

Published in Conference

Thursday, 17 September 2020 23:05

Nordic nRF52805 adds Bluetooth 5.2 SoC in WLCSP optimized for compact, two-layer PCB wireless products to proven nRF52 Series

The nRF52805 SoC offers Bluetooth LE high-throughput 2 Mbps and enhanced Channel Selection Algorithm #2, and 2.4 GHz proprietary protocols for cost-constrained applications such as disposable medical products, styluses, sensors, and beacons.

Published in Bluetooth chips

Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:56