Overview
The Silicon BLE5.1/15.4 chip with internal Flash and audio support combines the features and functions needed for all 2.4GHz IoT standards. It supports standards and industrial alliance specifications including BLE 5.0 with up to 8 antenna indoor positioning support, BLE Mesh, Zigbee, RF4CE, HomeKit, 6LoWPAN, Thread, ANT and 2.4GHz proprietary standard. For some use cases, the 8258 supports concurrent multi-standards.
The chip integrates strong 32-bit MCU, BLE/802.15.4/2.4GHz Radio, 64kB SRAM, 512kB Flash, 14bit ADC with PGA, Analog and Digital Microphone input, stereo audio output, 6-channel PWM, one quadrature decoder (QDEC), flexible IO interfaces, and other peripheral blocks required for IoT (Internet of Things) applications. The 8258 also includes multi-stage power management design allowing ultra-low power operation and making it the ideal candidate for wearable and power-constraint applications.
This is available as the white label chip or any custom modification as per your requirement.
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The adoption of the Bluetooth low energy (Bluetooth LE) specifications v4.0/v4.2 standards is being driven by adoption in several markets such as the Health and Fitness devices, Beacons, Asset tracking, Home automation, PC Peripherals etc. Bluetooth low energy 5, together with the Bluetooth LE Mesh specifications are set to make Bluetooth the ‘Connectivity of Choice’ in IoT markets such as Connected Home, Commercial Lighting and Industrial Wireless Sensor Network markets.
Wireless audio (wireless earbuds, headphones and speakers) introduced us to a completely new level of listening convenience and freedom, prompting the rapid growth we are already seeing in this consumer segment (30% CAGR for wireless earbuds and 14% for wireless headphones). Now the race is on to further improve audio quality and capability in these devices.
Franz Dugand, Ceva
Navot Goren, Ceva
Laura Moore
Synopsys is now shipping support for Bluetooth® 5.4, the latest specification from the Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group). The enhancements in Bluetooth 5.4 will open additional markets and use cases. This is one of the many inflection points in the Bluetooth Low Energy market that will be discussed in this paper.