Nordic Launches Low-Cost Wi-Fi 6 Solution for Optimal Cost Design
Published2023.06.19 10:34
▲The nRF7001 functions as a secure, low-power Wi-Fi 6 companion IC for end products requiring 2.4GHz connectivity.
A low-cost Wi-Fi 6 solution for low-power Wi-Fi IoT products that require only a 2.4GHz single-band connection is expected to ease the burden on developers developing low-cost products.
Nordic Semiconductor today announced the launch of its new Wi-Fi 6 companion IC, the nRF7001™, expanding its nRF70® series.
Complementing the 2.4GHz and 5GHz capable nRF7002™, the nRF7001 provides a secure, low-power Wi-Fi 6 companion IC for end products requiring only 2.4GHz connectivity.
The nRF7001 reduces the bill of materials (BoM) of single-band designs in smart homes, smart cities, industrial automation, and other low-power Wi-Fi IoT applications.
The nRF70 series Wi-Fi 6 companion ICs provide low-power, robust, and secure Wi-Fi connectivity, as well as Wi-Fi positioning capabilities based on SSID (Service Set Identifier) scanning.
nRF700As with the nRF7001, the nRF7001 companion IC can be used with Nordic’s award-winning nRF52® and nRF53® Series multiprotocol Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) and the nRF9160™ cellular IoT (LTE-M/NB-IoT) System-in-Package (SiP). It can also be used with non-Nordic host devices.
“The nRF7001 perfectly complements the nRF7002 as a drop-in single-band solution that can replace a dual-band companion IC for products that only operate in the 2.4GHz band,” says Ioannis Glaropoulos, Technical Product Manager at Nordic Semiconductor. “Designed to provide highly reliable 2.4GHz connections, the nRF7001 brings all the Wi-Fi features of the nRF7002, including the latest standards compliance and power-saving features, at a lower cost. “The nRF7001, when paired with Nordic’s nRF52840 as the host processor, provides a cost-effective yet high-performance Wi-Fi solution,” he said.
The nRF7001 companion IC supports Station (STA), Software Emulated Access Point (SoftAP), and Wi-Fi Direct operation, and is compliant with the IEEE 802.11b, a, g, n (Wi-Fi 4), and ax (Wi-Fi 6) standards.
Additionally, this product provides excellent coexistence with Bluetooth® Low Energy (Bluetooth LE), Thread, and Zigbee, as well as supporting Target Wake Time (TWT), a key power-saving feature of Wi-Fi 6.
Interfacing with the nRF52840 or other host processor is via SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) or QSPI (Quad SPI).
Additionally, the nRF7001 provides a single spatial stream, 20MHz channel bandwidth, 64 QAM (MCS7), OFDMA, PHY rates up to 86Mbps, and BSS Coloring.
Developers can quickly and easily get started with nRF7001-based designs using the nRF Connect SDK, a scalable, integrated software development kit for building Nordic's wireless device-based products.
Additionally, the nRF Connect SDK supports emulating the nRF7001 IC in the nRF7002 Development Kit (DK), so you can also use this DK to develop nRF7001 applications.
Therefore, product designers have chosen the nRF7001 companion IC and the nRF7002 DK and nRF Connect Using the SDK, you can easily add 2.4GHz Wi-Fi capabilities to your product, and connect to the nRF Cloud Service to easily support communication with other devices based on a Wi-Fi network.
The nRF7001 companion IC and nRF7002 DK are available now through Nordic distribution partners.
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