Renesas expands its Bluetooth LE SoC leadership, rolls out the compact multi-core (Cortex-M33, Cortex-M0+), Bluetooth LE SoC device delivering the lowest power.
Renesas Electronics DA14592 Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) System-on-Chip (SoC) carefully balances tradeoffs between on-chip memory (RAM/ROM/Flash) and SoC die size (for cost).
The new Bluetooth LE SoC – DA14592 is touted to be well suited to a broad range of applications including connected medical, asset tracking, human interface devices, metering, PoS readers and ‘crowd-sourced location’ (CSL) tracking.
Continuing Renesas’ Bluetooth LE SoC leadership in lowest radio power consumption, the DA14592 utilizes:
- A new low-power mode to offer world-class, 2.3mA radio transmits current at 0dBm and 1.2mA radio receive current.
- Supports an ultra-low hibernation current of only 90nA.
- Extends shelf-life for end-products shipped with ‘battery connected’.
- Ultra-low active current at 34µA/MHz for products requiring significant application processing.
- The Bluetooth LE SoC typically only requires 6 external components, offering a best-in-class engineering bill of materials (eBOM).
- Operating from only a system clock and its highly accurate on-chip RCX.
- This device removes the need for a sleep mode crystal in the majority of applications.
Key Specs of the Latest Renesas’ Bluetooth LE SoC
- Reduced eBOM,
- Coupled with the DA14592’s small package (offered in WLCSP: 3.32mm x 2.48mm and FCQFN: 5.1mm x 4.3mm),
- Presents designers with an attractively small solution footprint.
- Includes a high-precision, sigma-delta ADC, up to 32 GPIOs and unlike other SoCs in its class.
- It offers a QSPI supporting external memory (Flash or RAM) expansion for applications requiring extra memory.
Renesas has integrated all external components required to implement a Bluetooth LE solution into the DA14592MOD module. It offers customers the fastest time-to-market and reduced overall project cost. Emphasis has been placed in the design of this module to ensure maximum design flexibility by comprehensively routing the DA14592’s functions to the outside of the module and using castellated pins for easy/low-cost module attachment during development.
Renesas is committed to providing best-in-class reference designs with industry-leading power, eBOM and solution footprint for both mobile operating systems as soon as Google’s Find My Device network becomes available. These reference designs will not only accelerate tag designs but will also enable manufacturers of products that may be lost or stolen to easily attach the DA14592 to their existing product to render their product globally locatable utilizing billions of smartphones, thereby differentiating their products and enhancing end-customer value. Using the DA14592MOD will also remove the need for worldwide regulatory certifications, reducing development costs and further accelerating time-to-market.
Customers interested in adding this functionality into their products can email Renesas at CSLinfo@dm.renesas.com.
“The DA14592 and DA14592MOD extend our leadership in Bluetooth LE SoCs with our trademark low power consumption and best-in-class eBOMs,” said Davin Lee, Sr. Vice President and General Manager of the Analog and Connectivity Product Group for Renesas. “In addition, we have listened to our customers and continue to expand our product support by offering reference designs for applications such as crowd-sourced locationing, helping our customers to more easily differentiate their products, delivering premium value while maintaining lowest costs.”
Winning Combinations of the New Bluetooth LE SoC
Renesas has combined the new DA14592 with numerous compatible devices from its portfolio to offer a wide array of Winning Combinations, including Instrument Panel for Light Electric Vehicles. These Winning Combinations are technically vetted system architectures from mutually compatible devices that work together seamlessly to bring an optimized, low-risk design for faster time to market. Renesas offers more than 400 Winning Combinations with a wide range of products from the Renesas portfolio to enable customers to speed up the design process and bring their products to market more quickly. They can be found at renesas.com/win.
Availability
The DA14592 is in mass production today with the DA14592MOD targeted for worldwide regulatory certifications in 2Q24. For information about Renesas’ comprehensive development kits and support, including its widely adopted, low-cost, no-licensing fees product line tester, contact Renesas or visit: renesas.com/DA14592.
