For battery-operated IoT products:
Power Bluetooth 5.2 applications for 10 years with a button cell
You can use the Blue Gecko 22 SoC from SILICON LABS to operate battery-operated IoT applications for up to 10 years with a button cell.
The energy-saving ARM® Cortex® M33 core offers outstanding energy efficiency of 27 µA/MHz (active mode) and 1.2 µA in the power saving mode.
The target applications include Bluetooth network nodes with low power consumption, intelligent door locks, lifestyle gadgets and fitness equipment. Asset tracking tags, beacons and indoor navigation are another application area for the energy-saving Geckos.
A new type of position determination in the room was defined with Bluetooth 5.1.
In contrast to the relatively rough determination of the distance via the received signal strength, the direction of the radio signal is now determined.
There are two different methods in this respect:
AoA – Angle of Arrival
The receiver has several antennas for this process. When the signal of a beacon is received, the angle of incidence of the signal can be determined from the different travel times and phase position of the various antennas.
AoD – Angle of Departure
This method functions more or less in reverse. A beacon transmits its signal via several antennas.
The receiver can then determine the angle at which the received signal was emitted from the transmitter based on the phase positions of the various partial signals.
Both processes can be used to determine the position of a mobile device in the room with several known reference points and the respective signal angles.
- Hardware-accelerated crypto unit
Faster, more energy efficient and better security as a pure software solution - True Random Number Generator (TRNG)
Conforms to NIST SP800-90 and AIS-31
Authentication of firmware updates
Prevents the loading of manipulated firmware or a rollback to old versions - Secure Debug with Lock/Unlock
Debug locked for standard devices
Authenticated access for extended error analysis - TrustZone
Cost-optimised hardware separation of security-related data
The Key Features at a glance:
Bluetooth 5.2
Dynamic transmission power
Position determination with AoA and AoD
Transmission power + 6dBm
Energy-saving
27 µA/MHz active
1.4 µA EM2 Sleep Mode with 32 KB RAM
0.5 µA EM4 Deep Sleep with RTC
ARM® Cortex® M33 with TrustZone
76.8 MHz
Up to 512 KB Flash and 32 KB RAM housing: QFN32 (4 x 4 mm), QFN40
(5 x 5 mm)
Starter kits for easy entry into the BLE world of SILICON LABS:
SLWSTK6021A
- 1x Wireless starter kit main board
- 1x SLWRB4182A +6 dBm QFN40 radio board
- 1x SLWRB4183A +6 dBm QFN32 radio board
Hardware in the form of SoC or modules, as well as the appropriate software stacks and tools.
You obtain everything from a single source at SILICON LABS.
Simplicity Studio 4 is the focal point for your development. Based on the Eclipse environment, all the information and tools are available here with just a few clicks.
You will receive expert compiler support from GCC and IAR.
We would be happy to provide you with more information on request.
Microcontroller
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