CC2640R2L: SimpleLink™ Bluetooth® 5.1 Low Energy wireless MCU

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The CC2640R2L device is a 2.4 GHz wireless microcontroller (MCU) supporting Bluetooth ® 5.1 Low Energy and Proprietary 2.4 GHz applications. The device is optimized for low-power wireless communication and advanced sensing in medicalasset tracking, personal electronics, retail automation, and building automation markets, and applications where industrial performance is required.

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  • Microcontroller
    • Powerful Arm Cortex-M3
    • EEMBC CoreMark score: 142
    • Up to 48-MHz clock speed
    • 275KB of nonvolatile memory including 128KB of in-system programmable flash
    • Up to 28KB of system SRAM, of which 20KB is ultra-low leakage SRAM
    • 8KB of SRAM for cache or system RAM use
    • 2-pin cJTAG and JTAG debugging
    • Supports over-the-air upgrade (OTA)
  • Efficient code size architecture, placing drivers, TI-RTOS, and Bluetooth software in ROM to make more Flash available for the application
  • RoHS-compliant packages
    • 5‑mm × 5‑mm RHB VQFN32 (15 GPIOs)
    • 7‑mm × 7‑mm RGZ VQFN48 (31 GPIOs)
  • Peripherals
    • All digital peripheral pins can be routed to any GPIO
    • Four general-purpose timer modules (eight 16-bit or four 32-bit timers, PWM each)
    • 12-bit ADC, 200-ksamples/s, 8-channel analog MUX
    • UART, I2C, and I2S
    • 2× SSI (SPI, MICROWIRE, TI)
    • Real-time clock (RTC)
    • AES-128 security module
    • True random number generator (TRNG)
    • Integrated temperature sensor
  • External system
    • On-chip internal DC/DC converter
    • Seamless integration with CC2590 and CC2592 range extenders
    • Very few external components
    • Pin compatible with the SimpleLink™ CC2640, CC2640R2F, and CC2650 devices in 5‑mm × 5‑mm and 7‑mm x 7‑mm VQFN packages
    • Pin compatible with the SimpleLink™ CC2642R and CC2652R devices in 7‑mm x 7‑mm VQFN packages
    • Pin compatible with the SimpleLink™ CC1350 device in 5‑mm × 5‑mm VQFN packages
  • Low power
    • Wide supply voltage range
      • Normal operation: 1.8 to 3.8 V
      • External regulator mode: 1.7 to 1.95 V
    • Active-mode RX: 5.9 mA
    • Active-mode TX at 0 dBm: 6.1 mA
    • Active-mode TX at +5 dBm: 9.1 mA
    • Active-mode MCU: 61 µA/MHz
    • Active-mode MCU: 48.5 CoreMark/mA
    • Standby: 1.5 µA (RTC running and RAM/CPU retention)
    • Shutdown: 100 nA (wake up on external events)
  • RF section
    • 2.4-GHz RF transceiver compatible with Bluetooth low energy 5.1 and earlier LE specifications
    • Excellent receiver sensitivity (–97 dBm for BLE), selectivity, and blocking performance
    • Link budget of 102 dB for BLE
    • Programmable output power up to +5 dBm
    • Single-ended or differential RF interface
    • Suitable for systems targeting compliance with worldwide radio frequency regulations
      • ETSI EN 300 328 (Europe)
      • EN 300 440 Class 2 (Europe)
      • FCC CFR47 Part 15 (US)
      • ARIB STD-T66 (Japan)
  • Development Tools and Software

Farees Ahmed

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