Embedded electronics specialist Renesas has introduced what it claims is its “lowest energy consumption” system-on-chip to incorporate a dual-core processor, Bluetooth 5.2 Low Vitality (BLE) connectivity, and built-in flash reminiscence: the DA14592, additionally out there because the DA14592MOD system-on-module.
“The DA14592 and DA14592MOD lengthen our management in Bluetooth LE SoCs with our trademark low energy consumption and best-in-class eBOMs [engineering Bills of Materials],” claims Renesas’ Davin Lee of the corporate’s newest launch. “As well as, now we have listened to our prospects and proceed to develop our product help by providing reference designs for functions akin to crowd-sourced locationing, serving to our prospects to extra simply differentiate their merchandise, delivering premium worth whereas sustaining lowest prices.”
Renesas has introduced what it claims is its lowest-power dual-core BLE system-on-chip but, the DA14592. (📷: Renesas)
That promise of “best-in-class eBOMs” comes from a declare that in a typical design the DA14592 can be utilized with solely six exterior parts, whereas the corporate’s claims of low energy draw are supported by measurements demonstrating a 2.3mA present draw whereas transmitting at 0dBm, 1.2mA whereas receiving, a 90nA hibernation mode, and an lively present measured at 34µA per megahertz of CPU clock.
The chip consists of three processor cores: a dual-core Arm Cortex-M33F as its major cores and a Cortex-M0+ core as a configurable MAC. There’s 96kB of static RAM, 256kB of on-chip flash, 288kB of ROM, and a quad-SPI bus for exterior flash or RAM growth. There are as much as 32 general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) pins, a sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a Bluetooth 5.2 Low Vitality (BLE) radio.
The corporate has additionally introduced a growth package design, dubbed the DA14592 DEVKIT-PRO, to hurry experimentation. (📷: Renesas)
This latter function is utilized by Rensas in a reference design for crowdsourced location monitoring, as present in merchandise like Apple’s AirTag household. “These reference designs won’t solely speed up tag designs,” the corporate claims, “however will even allow producers of merchandise which may be misplaced or stolen to simply connect the DA14592 to their current product to render their product globally locatable using billions of smartphones, thereby differentiating their merchandise and enhancing end-customer worth.”
The DA14592 is now out there to order from the Renesas web site, with pricing beginning at $4.35 per chip earlier than quantity reductions; the DA14592MOD is awaiting regulatory certification, Renesas has mentioned, with approval anticipated within the second quarter of the yr. A growth package, the DA1459 DEVKIT-PRO, will even be made out there.