Are there any shortcuts? The questions reach me by email. Your selected IC is a fully qualified Bluetooth v4.0 low energy design and combines the Radio, Link Layer, and Host into a single EPL (End Product Listing) enabling designers to easily create new Bluetooth end products without additional listing fees. Nevertheless for your radio device […]
Tag: Bluetooth LE
RS9113 wireless M2M combo
What is the RS9113? The RS9113 is a chip or wireless module (RS9113-11-3) that comes with: WIFI 2.4 WIFI 5.8 GHz ZigBee Classic Bluetooth BT 2.1+EDR, BT 3.0 Bluetooth 4.0 (Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth Low Energy) Calculation power on internal MCU for your own application Huge amount of interfaces for periphery like I2C, I2S, SPI, QSPI, […]
Internet of Things Around the Smartphone
Wednesday 10th of March 14:45 – 15:20 Droidcon 2013 in Berlin Mr. Klaus Starnberger, Starnberger Innovation & Technologie GmbH Ultra low power wireless technologies like Bluetooth 4.0 or ANT+ are about to revolutionize our daily life. The smartphone reaches out for sensing, controlling and utilizing its proximity and neighbourhood. New technologies enable proximity and find […]
How to become a Jedi?
With this new game controller childhood dreams come true. Everyone can now become a Jedi. In addition to video games, you can use it to control a home entertainment system or model air-plane. What’s missing in my opinion, are more new profiles in Bluetooth Smart. We need uniform interfaces and APIs. There is not just […]
Seven at on one stroke – WIFI 2.4, WIFI 5.8, Classic Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, ZigBee, MCU and periphery
A fairy tale comes true. Seven at one stroke. Besides WIFI 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz WIFI also ZigBee, Bluetooth Low Energy and Classic Bluetooth is integrated. In addition, the controller in the module can be used for an individual application. As interfaces for peripherals are I2C, I2S, SPI, QSPI, UART, GPIO, JTAG and analogue […]
50 ANT slaves talking to one ANT master – ANT vers BLE Part 1
How to connect 50 ultra low power slaves to one master? Bluetooth Low Energy is limited because each wireless slave connected to the master will charge RAM. Nevertheless, Bluetooth Low Energy is just one 2400 MHz technology out of several others. In comparison to Bluetooth Low Energy a technology called ANT charges much less RAM. […]
Comparsion of Bluetooth Low Energy – BLE – Bluetooth Smart ICs
BLE = Bluetooth Low Energy = Bluetooth Smart = a part of Bluetooth 4.0 Competitor vers. nRF51 (left side third party / right side nRF51 for my application) Switch Mode Power Supply & Linear regulators/ ditto Not supported / Individual power management for all peripherals inside the IC 1 x 10-bit ADC / 8/9/10 bit […]
Ultra small balun for Bluetooth Low Energy and ANT+
2 mm2 instead of 13,25 mm2 space for your Bluetooth Low Energy or ANT+ balun What does it mean? What will be the advantage? What will be the benefit? The dark regions shows the space for the balun. The PCB surface on left picture is 13,25 mm2. On the right picture the PCB surface is […]
PAN1026 Bluetooth Dual Mode Module with BT 2.1 SPP and BT 4.0 LE GATT/GAP
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a part of Bluetooth 4.0. BLE is also called Bluetooth Smart. Former it was called Bluetooth Ultra Low Power and in the beginning the name was WiBree. A lot of names and all mean the same. See also:What Do The iPhone 4S And The Lord Of The Rings Have In […]
Remote control for TV and set-up box on Bluetooth Low Energy made easy
Reference design with multi-touch touch-pad, 6-axis motion sensing, and full QWERTY keyboard The hardware and software reference design includes a multi-touch touch-pad, 6-axis motion sensing, and full QWERTY keyboard. The reference design contains a multi-protocol nRF51822 System on Chip (SoC) to offer simultaneous single chip Bluetooth low energy and a 2.4GHz proprietary RF protocol support. […]