Delivering more available memory, Bluetooth 5-ready hardware, automotive qualification and a new ultra-small wafer-chip-scale package (WCSP) option, Texas Instruments (TI) announced two new devices in its scalable SimpleLink Bluetooth low energy wireless microcontroller (MCU) family.
The new devices continue to feature advanced integration including a complete single-chip hardware and unified software solution with an ARM Cortex-M3 based MCU, automatic power management, highly flexible full-featured Bluetooth-compliant radio and a low-power sensor controller.
Enhance your Internet of Things (IoT) applications with the new SimpleLink CC2640R2F wireless MCU which offers more available memory for richer, more responsive and high-performance applications.
The device comes in a tiny 2.7x2.7 mm chip-scale package (WCSP) option that is less than half the size of TI's smallest 4x4 mm QFN package, yet still delivers the longest range with the lowest power consumption. The new CC2640R2F is ready for the Bluetooth 5 core specification which offers longer range, higher speed and more data for enhanced connection-less applications in building automation, medical, commercial and industrial automation.
Hit the road with the SimpleLink CC2640R2F-Q1 wireless MCU that enables smartphone connectivity for car access including passive entry passive start (PEPS) and remote keyless entry (RKE), as well as emerging automotive use cases with AEC-Q100 qualification and Grade 2 temperature rating. Additionally, the CC2640R2F-Q1 device is the industry's first solution to be offered in a wettable flank QFN package which helps reduce production line cost and increases reliability enabled by optical inspection of solder points.
These additions – along with more processing power, more security and even more memory coming later in 2017 – will allow developers to quickly and easily reuse their project across pin- and code-compatible ultra-low-power CC264x wireless MCUs as application demands grow and change. The scalable SimpleLink CC264x wireless MCU family will enable product optimizations based on size, system cost and application requirements rather than using a one-size fits all solution.
Additionally, the CC264x family is supported by a unified software and application development environment, royalty-free BLE-Stack software, Code Composer Studio integrated development environment (IDE), system software and interactive training materials.
