Bluetooth 5 SoC serves wide range of wearable applications

NORDIC SEMICONDUCTOR nRF52810 Bluetooth low energy SoCs provides the key performance benefits of Bluetooth 5 to wearable applications. Device provides 2x the data bandwidth (2Mbps) compared with the Bluetooth low energy implementation of Bluetooth 4.2; and 8x the broadcasting ability. Device is a ‘subset’ device of firm’s high-performance nRF52 Series, using 100dBm link budget 2.4GHz multiprotocol radio and has a 64MHz, 32-bit ARM Cortex M4 MCU. Device comes in either a 6x6mm 48-pin QFN package with 32 GPIOs, or a 5x5mm 32-pin QFN with 16 GPIOs. http://www.nordicsemi.com