Bluing-MS Low Power Bluetooth Smart IC Evaluation Board

The BlueNRG-MS is a very low power Bluetooth low energy (BLE) single-mode network processor, compliant with Bluetooth specification v4.1. The BlueNRG-MS supports multiple roles simultaneously, and can act at the same time as Bluetooth Smart sensor and hub device.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-MS 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-MS offers the option of interfacing with external microcontrollers using SPI transport layer.

Bluetooth specification v4.1 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 1.7 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

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