Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today announced the new SimpleLink™ ultra-low power wireless microcontroller (MCU) platform that helps customers go battery-less with energy harvesting or enjoy always-on, coin cell-powered operation for multiple years. With this industry-first technology, customers have the flexibility to develop products that support multiple wireless connectivity standards using a single-chip and identical RF design. The SimpleLink ultra-low power platform supports Bluetooth® low energy, ZigBee®, 6LoWPAN, Sub-1 GHz, ZigBee RF4CE™ and proprietary modes up to 5Mbps. This platform expands TI’s SimpleLink portfolio, the broadest, lowest power and easiest to use wireless connectivity offering in the industry for the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Extending TI’s low-power MCU leadership, the SimpleLink ultra-low power platform is the most integrated with an ARM® Cortex®-M3 MCU, Flash/RAM, analog-to-digital converter, peripherals, sensor controller and built-in robust security on chip. The platform is also the easiest to design with through ready-to-use protocol stacks, TI RTOS, Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment (IDE), development tools, online training and E2E™ community support. Minimal RF expertise is required with available reference designs, which simplify development and layout. Additionally, TI makes it easier for customers to connect to the cloud through the TI IoT cloud ecosystem.
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The new ultra-low power platform is designed for low power operation, which includes a unique integrated sensor controller that interfaces external sensors autonomously while the rest of the device sleeps. The platform includes radio peak currents below 6.2mA and MCU active current of less than 61uA/MHz. The complete chip can stay in standby at only 1 uA with memory retention and RTC (real time clock) running. This enables the platform to offer half the power of other MCUs according to EEMBC’s ULPBench™ with a score of 143.6.
The CC2640 is designed for a broad range of Bluetooth Smart applications including health, fitness and medical wearables, mobile accessories, beacons, industrial automation and more with: Easy development with comprehensive design support: Complete robust, royalty-free software stack with over-the-air (OTA) update capability, wiki guides, reference designs, low-cost tools and software starting points; Lowest power Flash-based Bluetooth 4.1 solution with multi-year operation on smaller coin cells; and Complete one-chip Bluetooth Smart system in a finger-tip, 4×4 mm size that integrates a Flash-based MCU, Bluetooth Smart radio.
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The SimpleLink ultra-low power wireless MCU devices will be available in 4×4, 5×5 and 7x7mm QFN packages. The 7×7 mm package is available now as part of TI’s sample program, the other devices will follow in the coming month. Pricing for the 7×7 devices are as follows: SimpleLink Bluetooth Smart CC2640 wireless MCU for $3.00 in 1,000 unit volumes; and SimpleLink 6LoWPAN and ZigBee CC2630 wireless MCU for $5.10 in 1,000 unit volumes.
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