SimpleLink Bluetooth 5 MCU designed for a broad array of wireless IoT applications

Mouser now stocks the CC2640R2F SimpleLink ultra-low-power wireless microcontroller from Texas Instruments. Part of their CC26xx SimpleLink family of 2.4GHz devices, the microcontroller features a small, single-chip system that integrates a flash-based microcontroller and Bluetooth Smart radio to target Bluetooth 4.2 and Bluetooth 5 low-energy applications. The microcontroller combines a 61µA/MHz ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller and a rich peripheral set that includes an 8.2µA/MHz sensor controller. The 48MHz ARM microcontroller offers 128kBytes of flash and 28kBytes of SRAM and supports OTA updates. The sensor controller is ideal for interfacing external sensors and for collecting analog and digital data autonomously while the rest of the system is in sleep mode. The device includes a 12-bit analog-to-digital converter, up to 31 GPIOs, and built-in robust security on chip with one of the simplest radio frequency (RF) and antenna designs available. Minimal RF expertise is required to implement the device, which helps make development and layout extremely easy. The wireless microcontroller is available in 2.7mm × 2.7mm WCSP and 4mm × 4mm, 5mm × 5mm and 7mm × 7mm QFN packages, and is designed for a broad array of wireless IoT applications, including health and fitness, industrial, and home and building automation. With ready-to-use protocol stacks (including the SIMPLELINK-CC2640R2-SDK software development kit for Bluetooth 5), the SimpleLink portfolio of wireless connectivity solutions not only offers designers maximum flexibility and support but also delivers the industry’s only multi-standard capabilities with code- and pin-compatibility across Bluetooth Smart, 6LoWPAN, ZigBee and ZigBee RF4CE.