Renesas launches its first dual-core Bluetooth low energy SoC with integrated flash memory and achieves lowest power consumption

The new DA14592 SoC and DA14592MOD modules support a wide range of applications such as crowdsourcing positioning.

Also brings the lowest eBoM

January 18, 2024, Beijing, China - Renesas Electronics, a global semiconductor solutions provider, today announced the launch of the DA14592 Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) system-on-chip (SoC), becoming Renesas's lowest power consumption and smallest multi-core ( Cortex-M33, Cortex-M0+) low-power Bluetooth products . Thanks to careful trade-offs between on-chip memory (RAM/ROM/Flash) and SoC chip size (which determines cost), the DA14592 is ideally suited for applications including connected healthcare, asset tracking, human interface devices, metering, PoS readers, and " Crowdsourced location (CSL) tracking, etc.

The DA14592 continues Renesas' low-power Bluetooth SoC's leadership in the lowest radio power consumption and adopts a new low-power mode to provide industry-leading 2.3mA radio transmit current and 1.2mA radio receive current at 0dBm . In addition, it supports ultra-low sleep current of only 90nA, extending the operation and life of end products that rely on battery power, and supports ultra-low operating current of 34µA/MHz for products that need to handle high-volume applications.

From a solution cost perspective, the DA14592 typically requires only 6 external components, resulting in an ideal engineering bill of materials (eBOM) in its class. This product uses only the system clock and high-precision on-chip RCX, eliminating the need for a sleep mode crystal in most applications . The lower eBOM, coupled with the DA14592's small package (WLCSP: 3.32mm x 2.48mm, and FCQFN: 5.1mm x 4.3mm), also provides designers with an attractive small footprint solution. The DA14592 also includes a high-precision, sigma-delta ADC and up to 32 GPIOs. Unlike other SoCs in its class, it also provides a QSPI that supports external memory (flash or RAM) expansion to meet applications that require additional memory.

Renesas has integrated all external components required to implement Bluetooth low energy solutions into the DA14592MOD module, achieving the fastest time to market and lower overall project cost for customers. The module's design focused on ensuring maximum design flexibility: fully routing the functionality of the DA14592 outside the module and using toothed pins to allow for easy/low-cost mounting of the module during development.

"Crowdsourcing" positioning is a key application demonstrated by Renesas based on DA14592 and DA14592MOD. It is expected that by 2031, Apple AirTag sales in the North American market alone will reach more than 29 billion US dollars (note). Google also recently announced plans to build a crowdsourced location network called "Find My Device." Renesas is committed to providing best-in-class reference designs for these two mobile operating systems immediately after the launch of Google's "Find My Device" network, bringing industry-leading power consumption, eBOM and solution footprint. These reference designs will not only accelerate label design, but also allow manufacturers to easily attach the DA14592 to their products that are easily lost or stolen, allowing them to differentiate their products by enabling global positioning with billions of smartphones. and enhance value to end customers. Using the DA14592MOD will also eliminate the need for global regulatory certification, reducing development costs and further accelerating time to market.

Davin Lee, Sr. Vice President and General Manager of the Analog and Connectivity Product Group for Renesas said: “With Renesas’ signature low-power features and best-in-class eBOM, the DA14592 and DA14592MOD expand our portfolio of Bluetooth low energy SoCs. An outstanding position in the field. In addition, we actively listen to customer feedback, continuously expand the scope of product support, and bring reference designs for applications such as crowdsourcing positioning to help customers achieve product differentiation more easily and create high-quality value while maintaining the lowest cost. "

Successful product portfolio

Renesas combines the new DA14592 with the many compatible devices in its portfolio to provide a broad "winner portfolio" including lightweight electric vehicle instrument panels. These "win portfolios" are based on devices that are compatible and work seamlessly together, with technically proven system architectures, resulting in optimized, low-risk designs to accelerate time to market. Renesas has now launched more than 400 "successful product portfolios" based on various products in its product lineup, enabling customers to accelerate the design process and bring products to market faster. For more information, visit: renesas.com/win.

Supply information

DA14592 is now in mass production, and DA14592MOD is expected to pass global regulatory certification in the second quarter of 2024. For information about Renesas' comprehensive development kits and support, including its broad range of low-cost, license-free product line test tools, please contact Renesas or visit renesas.com/DA14592.

(Note) Source: IMIR® Market Research Pvt Ltd.