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New Integrated RF Solutions Include ZigBee and ISM-Band Products

With its acquisition of Chipcon, Texas Instruments has added to its portfolio a range of industry-leading ZigBee™-compliant solutions, as well as proprietary RF ICs that enable innovative low-power RF applications. These will provide customers with complete solutions for applications as diverse as RFID, consumer electronics and building automation.

The new family includes what TI believes is the market’s most competitive ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 solution with location estimation capability, the CC2431 with Location Engine. The device combines the excellent performance of the industry-leading CC2420 RF transceiver with an enhanced 8051 MCU, 128Kbyte Flash memory, 8Kbyte RAM and a radio location hardware core.



The radio location feature is designed for use in active RFID areas such as asset tracking, inventory control, container/pallet tracking, security, and access and control systems.

For use in the 2.4GHz band, the CC2510 device combines a UHF RF transceiver and a high performance, low-power 8051-based microcontroller with integrated Flash memory and SRAM. Peripherals include an AES security co-processor and 8-14 bits ADC with up to eight inputs.

The device includes a wide range of power-down modes with fast wake-up, for use in systems where ultra-low power consumption is required. A highly-configurable baseband modem supports various modulation formats, including 2-FSK, GFSK and MSK, and has a configurable data rate up to 500kbit/s.

The CC2510 is aimed at applications in consumer electronics, wireless keyboard and mouse, wireless audio, remote controls and sports and leisure equipment. It is supplied in an RoHS-compliant 6mm x 6mm QLP36 package.

The CC1010 is a true System-on-Chip (SoC) solution, combining a 300MHz to 1GHz CMOS RF transceiver with an industry-standard 8051 microcontroller core. The device includes in-system programmable Flash memory, hardware DES encryption/decryption and a three channel 10-bit ADC.

It requires a minimal number of external passive components to make a powerful embedded system with wireless communication capabilities, sensor interfacing possibilities and ample processing power.

The transceiver exhibits high sensitivity (typically -107dBm), and provides data rates of up to 76.8kBit/s. A fast-settling PLL allows the implementation of frequency hopping protocols. Supported by easy to use development tools, the CC1010 operates from a 2.7V to 3.6V supply voltage, and is supplied in a 64-lead TQFP.

Features: CC2431

• ZigBee SoC with integrated location estimation
• IEEE 802.15.4-compliant
• Integrated RF transceiver and enhanced 8051 MCU
• 128Kbyte Flash memory, 8Kbyte RAM
• Radio location hardware core
  • Resolution of 0.5m
  • Time to estimate node location less than 40µs
  • Location range 64m x 64m
  • Location accuracy of 3m

Features: CC2510

• High-performance, low-power RF transceiver and enhanced 8051 cores
• 32Kbyte in-system programmable Flash
• 4Kbyte SRAM (with data retention in all power modes)
• Powerful DMA functionality
• Four flexible power modes
• High sensitivity
• Excellent receiver selectivity and blocking performance
• Programmable data rate up to 500Kbit/s
• 2-FSK, GFSK and MSK supported
• RoHS compliant 6mm x 6mm QLP36 package

Features: CC1010

• 300MHz to 1GHz CMOS RF transceiver integrated with 8051 microcontroller core
• 32Kbyte in-system programmable Flash
• Hardware DES encryption/decryption
• Three-channel 10-bit ADC
• Very low current consumption
• High sensitivity (typically -107dBm)
• Programmable output power up to +10dBm
• Data rate up to 76.8kbit/s
• Fast-settling PLL for setting frequency hopping
• 64-lead TQFP

Applications

• Consumer electronics
• Wireless computer peripherals
• Wireless audio
• Remote controls
• Sports and leisure equipment
• RFID
  • Asset tracking
  • Inventory control
  • Container/pallet tracking
• Security and access control

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