STMicroelectronics: BlueNRG
The Bluetooth® low energy network processor enables superior battery life and excellent wireless-link performances. ST’s BlueNRG IC provides all the functions needed to link a Bluetooth smart device that operates in a peripheral role, and for which BlueNRG has been specifically designed, to a Bluetooth smart ready host such as a smartphone or a tablet.
The BlueNRG can act as master or slave. The entire Bluetooth low energy stack runs on the embedded Cortex M0 core. The non-volatile Flash memory allows on-field stack upgrading. The BlueNRG allows applications to meet of the tight advisable peak current requirements imposed with the use of standard coin cell batteries. The maximum peak current is only 10 mA at 1 dBm of output power.
Ultra low-power sleep modes and very short transition times between operating modes allow very low average current consumption, resulting in longer battery life. The BlueNRG offers the option of interfacing with external microcontrollers using SPI transport layer.
Key Features:
- Bluetooth specification v4.0 compliant master and slave single-mode Bluetooth low energy network processor
- Embedded Bluetooth low energy protocol stack: GAP, GATT, SM, L2CAP, LL, RF-PHY
- Bluetooth low energy profiles provided separately
- Operating supply voltage: from 2.0 to 3.6 V
- 8.2 mA maximum TX current (@0 dBm, 3.0 V)
- Down to 1.7 μA current consumption with active BLE stack
- Integrated linear regulator and DC-DC step-down converter
- Up to +8 dBm available output power (at antenna connector)
- Excellent RF link budget (up to 96 dB)
- Accurate RSSI to allow power control
- Proprietary application controller interface (ACI), SPI based, allows interfacing with an external host application microcontroller
- Full link controller and host security
- High performance, ultra-low power Cortex-M0 32-bit based architecture core · On-chip non-volatile Flash memory
- AES security co-processor
- Low power modes
- 16 or 32 MHz crystal oscillator
- 12 MHz ring oscillator
- 32 kHz crystal oscillator
- 32 kHz ring oscillator
- Battery voltage monitor and temperature sensor
- Compliant with the following radio frequency regulations: ETSI EN 300 328, EN 300 440, FCC CFR47 Part 15, ARIB STD-T66
- Available in QFN32 (5 x 5 mm) and WLCSP34 (2.66 x 2.56 mm) packages – Operating temperature range: -40 °C to 85 °C
