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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

STMicroelectronics and Qualcomm have agreed to integrate Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Thread wireless IC, which it describes as ‘AI-powered’, into STM32 development tools. Beyond this, ST said that it plans to introduce self-contained Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Thread wireless modules that including Qualcomm ICs – with initial products expected to be available to OEMs in the first quarter of next year. “We ...

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 ...

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 ...

u-blox has announced four stamp-sized wireless MCU modules that can run user code and support Bluetooth LE 5.4, Thread, Matter and PSA Certified Level 3 security. ALMA-B10x versions are built around Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF54H20 wireless microcontrollers and have dual 320MHz Arm Cortex-M33 cores, dual 320MHz RISC-V cores, plus 2Mbyte of non-volatile memory and 1Mbyte ram. They also support NFC-A. NORA-B20x ...

Nordic Semiconductor is aiming at Bluetooth, Thread and Matter with a secured wireless microcontroller built around a 128MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor with 1.5Mbyte of non-volatile memory and 256kbyte of ram, which it describes as “ample for concurrent running of multiple protocols” and providing “double the processing power of the nRF52840 SoC while reducing power consumption” – the claim includes halved ...