Matter

Silicon Labs has moved to 22nm for its latest series of wireless MCUs for IoT nodes. Announced today, there are parts for Zigbee, Bluetooth and Matter-over-Thread, and for mains or battery power. SixG301 is the mains-powered (line-powered) family, where ‘x’ becomes ‘B’ for the Bluetooth LE (and Bluetooth mesh) focussed variant, or ‘M’ for multi-protocol types. Concurrent multi-protocol operation will ...

Must admit I'm not up to speed with Matter, a way to standardise IoT elements. So it's welcome to see a basic introductory tutorial on using the wireless protocol on the Arduino website.

ST is aiming at secured Bluetooth, Zigbee and other 2.4GHz comms with a wireless MCU family. Called STM32WBA6x, the controllers have a 100MHz Arm Cortex-M33 core with floating-point and DSP extensions, backed by up to 2Mbyte of flash and 512kbyte of ram. The flash memory is dual-bank. “Thread, Zigbee, Matter and Bluetooth are naturally low-bandwidth protocols, [which] means that downloading the ...

Panasonic has picked Nordic’s nRF54L15 around which to build its latest Bluetooth and Matter module: the 10.35 x 9.8 x 1.9mm PAN B511-1C. Equipped for Bluetooth 6 and 802.15.4, its embedded microcontroller is a 128MHz Arm Cortex-M33, backed by 1.5Mbyte of non-volatile Rram and 256kbyte of ram, and the module has a built-in antenna. Scheduled for production in Jun, output ...

Ceva has added Bluetooth High Data Throughput (HDT) to IEEE 802.15.4 for Zigbee, Thread and Matter in radio intellectual property aimed at TSMC’s FFC+ 12nm finfet semiconductor process. “Ceva-Waves Links200 [is] the first turn-key multi-protocol platform IP to support next generation Bluetooth HDT,” claimed Ceva. “High Data Throughput mode more than doubles the speed of traditional Bluetooth, delivering up to ...

Qorvo has announced a system-on-chip for smart home devices with multi-network support for Matter, Zigbee and Bluetooth Low Energy. “QPG6200L supports multiple protocols on separate channels simultaneously for consumer IoT applications including smart lighting, sensors and home hubs. It also leverages a built-in secure element and is PSA Certified Level 2 for enhanced IoT security,” according to the company, whihc ...

Ceva has introduced a multi-radio intellectual property package for IoT IC designers that combines Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4 and 802.15.4 modems with a 2.4GHz transceiver aimed at TSMC’s 22nm process. Called Links100 (diagram right), it is the first of a series of IP products (diagram below) that will also include transceivers for Wi-Fi 7 with MLO (multi-link operation), and UWB ...

Silicon Labs has announced an Arm Cortex-M33 based family of secured wireless microcontrollers covering Matter, OpenThread, Zigbee and Bluetooth LE. Called xG26, it consists of MG26 devices for Matter, OpenThread and Zigbee, BG26 devices for Bluetooth LE and Bluetooth Mesh, and PG26 devices for the same processing power without wireless transceivers. “As users from consumer to industrial sectors extract more ...

Alif Semiconductor has put an Arm Ethos-U55 neural processor alongside a Bluetooth Low Energy radio in a microcontroller for AI and machine learning workloads – all in a tine WLCSP package. It is called Balletto. “Balletto gives manufacturers the opportunity to implement AI/ML functions such as speech recognition, adaptive noise cancellation, vocal targeting and beam forming in true wireless stereo ...

NXP has finally revealed the wireless versions of its MCX microcontrollers, first announced in mid-2022. “Featuring the industry’s first MCU with Bluetooth Channel Sounding, NXP’s MCX W series enables edge devices with secure multi-protocol wireless for Matter, Thread, Zigbee and Bluetooth Low Energy,” according to the company, which explained: “Bluetooth Channel Sounding standard improves the accuracy and security of distance ...