Texas Instruments CC1350 SimpleLink™ Dual Band Wireless MCUs

Texas Instruments CC1350 SimpleLink™ Dual Band Wireless Microcontrollers (MCUs) are cost-effective, ultra-low-power, wireless MCUs capable of handling both Sub-1GHz and 2.4GHz RF frequencies. These MCUs have very low active RF and microcontroller (MCU) current consumption. These include flexible low-power modes that provide an excellent battery life. The MCUs allow long-range operation on small coin-cell batteries and in energy-harvesting applications. The Texas Instruments CC1350 combines a flexible, very low-power RF transceiver with a powerful 48MHz Cortex-M3 microcontroller in a platform supporting multiple physical layers and RF standards. A dedicated Radio Controller (Cortex-M0) handles low-level RF protocol commands stored in ROM or RAM. This Radio Controller ensures ultra-low power and gives the flexibility to handle both Sub-1GHz protocols and 2.4GHz protocols. This flexibility enables combining a Sub-1GHz communication solution that offers the best possible RF range and a BLUETOOTH® low energy smartphone connection that allows excellent user experience through a phone application.

Features

  • Dual-band (sub-1GHz and 2.4GHz) wireless microcontroller
  • Microcontroller
    • Powerful Arm® Cortex®-M3
    • EEMBC CoreMark® Score: 142
    • EEMBC ULPBench™ Score: 158
    • Clock speed up to 48MHz
    • 128KB of in-system programmable Flash
    • 8KB of SRAM for Cache (or as general-purpose RAM)
    • 20KB of ultra-low-leakage SRAM
    • 2-Pin cJTAG and JTAG debugging
    • Supports Over-the-Air (OTA) update
  • Ultra-low-power sensor controller
    • Can run autonomously from the rest of the system
    • 16-Bit architecture
    • 2KB of ultra-low-leakage SRAM for code and data
  • Efficient code-size architecture, placing parts of TI-RTOS, drivers, Bluetooth low energy controller, and bootloader in ROM
  • RoHS-compliant package
    • 7mm×7mm RGZ VQFN48 (30 GPIOs)
  • Peripherals
    • All digital peripheral pins can be routed to any GPIO
    • Four general-purpose timer modules (eight 16-Bit or four 32-bit timers, PWM each)
    • 12-Bit ADC, 200ksamples/s, 8-channel analog MUX
    • Continuous-time comparator
    • Ultra-low-power clocked comparator
    • Programmable current source
    • UART
    • 2× SSI (SPI, MICROWIRE, TI)
    • I2C, I2S
    • Real-Time Clock (RTC)
    • AES-128 security module
    • True Random Number Generator (TRNG)
    • Support for eight capacitive sensing buttons
    • Integrated temperature sensor
  • External system
    • On-chip internal DC-DC converter
    • Seamless integration with the SimpleLink™ CC1190 and CC2592 range extenders
  • Low power
    • 1.8V to 3.8V wide supply voltage range 
    • RX: 5.4mA (Sub-1GHz), 6.4mA (Bluetooth low energy, 2.4GHz)
    • TX at +10dBm: 13.4mA (sub-1GHz)
    • TX at +9dBm: 22.3mA (Bluetooth low energy, 2.4GHz)
    • TX at +0dBm: 10.5mA (Bluetooth low energy, 2.4GHz)
    • Active-mode MCU 48MHz running Coremark: 2.5mA (51µA/MHz)
    • Active-mode MCU: 48.5 CoreMark/mA
    • Active-mode sensor controller at 24MHz: 0.4mA + 8.2µA/MHz
    • Sensor controller, one wakeup every second performing one 12-Bit ADC sampling: 0.95µA
    • Standby: 0.7µA (RTC running and RAM and CPU retention)
    • Shutdown: 185nA (wakeup on external events)
  • RF section
    • 2.4GHz RF transceiver compatible with Bluetooth low energy 4.2 specification
    • Excellent receiver sensitivity –124dBm using long-range mode, –110dBm at 50kbps (sub-1GHz), –87dBm at Bluetooth low energy
    • Excellent selectivity (±100kHz): 56dB
    • Excellent blocking performance (±10MHz) 90dB
    • Programmable output power up to +14dBm Sub-1GHz and +9dBm at 2.4GHz (Bluetooth low energy)
    • Single-ended or differential RF interface
    • Suitable for systems targeting compliance with worldwide radio frequency regulations
    • ETSI EN 300 220, EN 303 204 (Europe)
    • EN 300 440 Class 2 (Europe)
    • EN 300 328 (Europe)
    • FCC CFR47 Part 15 (US)
    • ARIB STD-T66 (Japan)
    • ARIB STD-T108 (Japan)
    • Wireless M-Bus and selected IEEE 802.15.4g PHY
  • Tools and development environment
    • Full-feature and low-cost development kits
    • Multiple reference designs for different RF configurations
    • Packet sniffer PC software
    • Sensor controller studio
    • SmartRF™ Studio
    • SmartRF Flash programmer 2
    • IAR embedded Workbench® for Arm
    • Code Composer Studio™
    • CCS UniFlash

Applications

  • 315, 433, 470, 500, 779, 868, 915, 920MHz and 2.4GHz ISM and SRD systems
  • Low-power wireless systems with 50kHz to 5MHz channel spacing
  • Home and building automation
  • Wireless alarm and security systems
  • Industrial monitoring and control
  • Bluetooth low energy beacon management
  • Bluetooth low energy commissioning
  • Smart grid and automatic meter reading
  • Wireless healthcare applications
  • Wireless sensor networks
  • Active RFID
  • IEEE 802.15.4g, IP-enabled smart objects (6LoWPAN), wireless M-bus, KNX systems, Wi-SUN™, and proprietary systems
  • Energy-harvesting applications
  • Electronic Shelf Label (ESL)
  • Long-range sensor applications
  • Heat-cost allocators

Videos

Functional Block Diagram

Block Diagram - Texas Instruments CC1350 SimpleLink™ Dual Band Wireless MCUs
Published: 2016-08-15 | Updated: 2024-02-09