Cypress Semiconductor introduced the Bluetooth Smart Module, the first programmable analog and digital module on the market to integrate a Bluetooth low energy solution into a fully certified module. The company said that the new small-sized EZ-BLE PSoC module has Bluetooth 4.1 certification and global regulatory certification, which greatly simplifies design and shortens time to market.
Cypress is a single supplier of chip, software, firmware and module hardware that streamlines the customer support needed for customer support to develop sensor-based, low-power systems for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, including motion Fitness monitors, medical devices, wearable electronics, home automation solutions and game controllers.
Sensor-based systems require an analog front end (AFE) for sensing, digital control logic, BLE radio, and microcontrollers, while products with complex user interfaces require additional touch or display ICs. The EZ-BLE PSoC module is based on the Cypress PSoC 4 BLE programmable system-on-chip with ARM Cortex-M0 core, integrating all building blocks of a sensor-based system, and Cypress's industry-leading CapSense capacitive touch sensing function , Two crystals, one on-board tracking antenna, metal shield and passive components, all of which are available in a compact 11mm x 11mm x 1.8mm size.
Users who use this module to design can refer to Cypress's Qualification Design Identification (QDID) (a unique serial number assigned by the Bluetooth SIG) to apply for the Bluetooth logo on their products. The EZ-BLE PSoC module complies with wireless regulatory standards and is fully certified in major markets including the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, and Japan, thereby greatly saving hardware development, testing, manufacturing and certification costs.
Dave Solda, director of Cypress's module business unit, said: "Sensor-based systems that connect the real world to the Internet of Things must use low-power wireless communications and run on batteries, interactively, autonomous "These system designs traditionally require multiple ICs, but Cypress's EZ-BLE PSoC enables designers to maximize system integration in easy-to-use modules, reducing the solution's BOM cost, board space required and cycle time required to meet that requirement. Market. "
Designers seeking to create Bluetooth Smart products must often use software tools from multiple vendors and develop complex firmware to meet wireless specifications. Cypress has abstracted the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol stack and configuration files as royalty-free, GUI-based BLE components that can be dragged and dropped into the design using Cypress's PSoC Creator Integrated Design Environment (IDE). PSoC Creator implements a complete system design in a single tool. Application details for Cypress BLE components are embedded in PSoC Creator, which contains examples of all supported Bluetooth low energy profiles and hundreds of example projects for mixed-signal system design.
The EZ-BLE PSoC module enables designers to create custom AFEs for sensor interfaces using programmable analog modules such as operational amplifiers, comparators, ADCs, and DACs. Designers can integrate digital logic with programmable digital blocks including timers, counters, pulse width modulators (TCPWM), serial communication blocks (SCB), and universal digital blocks (UDB). The programmable architecture reduces the power consumption of battery-powered applications by offloading CPU tasks to the UDB, and it allows runtime reconfiguration of blocks, allowing the design to serve multiple functions.
EZ-BLE PSoC joins Cypress's EZ-BLE PRoC module, which is based on Cypress's PRoC BLE programmable on-chip radio solution and is now in production in a small size of 10mm x 10mm x 1.8mm. EZ-BLE PRoC's target products are remote controls, health and fitness equipment, home appliances, toys and other wireless applications.
Cypress also offers the BLE Pioneer Development Kit, which allows users to easily access Cypress Bluetooth low energy devices while maintaining the design size of the popular PSoC 4 Pioneer kit.
