Description
EMBEL iBeacon module is a powerful, highly flexible, ultra-low power BLE 5.0x
using Nordic nRF52xx SoC solution. It has an ARM Cortex M4 Processor ....
available 512kB
Flash/64kB RAM, and 256kB/32kB RAM embedded 2.4GHz multiprotocol transceiver
and an integrated chip antenna.
The module incorporates: GPIO, SPI, UART, I2C, I2S, PMD, PWM, and ADC
interfaces for connecting peripherals.
Features
- Nordic Soft Device ready
- for concurrent multi-protocol
- Type 2 near field communication (NFC-A) tag with wakeup-on-field and touch to-pair
capabilities
- 12-bit, 200 ksps ADC - 8 configurable channels with programmable gain
- 64 level comparator
- 15 level low power comparator with wakeup from System OFF mode
- On board 20 GPIO’s( General purpose I/O pins )
- 3x 4-channel pulse width modulator (PWM) unit with Easy-DMA
- Digital microphone interface (PDM)
- 5x 32-bit timer with counter mode
- Up to 3x SPI master/slave with Easy-DMA
- Up to 2x I2C compatible 2-wire master/slave
- I2S with Easy-DMA
- UART (CTS/RTS) with Easy-DMA
- Programmable peripheral interconnect (PPI)
- Quadrature decoder (QDEC)
2.4GHz transceiver
- -96dBm sensitivity in Bluetooth low energy mode
- Supported data rates: 1Mbps, 2Mbps Bluetooth low energy mode
- -20 to +4dBm TX power, configurable in 4 dB steps
- Onchip balun (single-ended RF)
- 5.3mA peak current in TX (0dBm)
- 5.4mA peak current in RX
- RSSI(1dB resolution)
ARM® Cortex®-M4 32-bit processor With FPU, 64 MHz
- 215 EEMBC CoreMark® score running from flash memory
- 58 μA/MHz running from flash memory
- 51.6 μA/MHz running from RAM
- Data watch point and trace (DWT), embedded trace macrocell (ETM), and instrumentation
trace macrocell (ITM)
- Serial wire debug (SWD)
- Trace port
Flexible power management
- 1.7 V-3.6 V supply voltage range
- Fully automatic LDO and DC/DC regulator system
- Fast wake-up using 64 MHz internal oscillator
- 0.3 μA at 3 V in System OFF mode
- 0.7 μA at 3 V in System OFF mode with full 64 kB RAM retention
- 1.9 μA at 3 V in System ON mode, no RAM retention, wake on RTC
Memory on board.
- On board 8MB Flash (Can be configured from 4MB to 16MB)
- 512 kB flash/64 kB RAM on microcontroller
- 256 kB flash/32 kB RAM on microcontroller
- External Memory also can be interfaced with up to 8GB memory card. ∙
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Applications
Due to varied support of protocols and stacks, the iBeacon module nRF528x can supported
applications. A brief of the applications are as below.
Internet of Things
- Smart Home products
- Industrial mesh networks
- Smart city infrastructure
Advanced Wearables
- Connected watches
- Advanced personal fitness devices
- Wearables with wireless payment
- Connected Health
Interactive Entertainment Devices
- Advanced remote controls
- Gaming controller
Personal Area Networks