Suitable for Wearables, Tablets, Toys, and Medical Monitoring Devices

Nordic Semiconductor has launched the latest product in the nRF52 series, a state-of-the-art high-performance Bluetooth^® low-energy SoC (System-on-Chip) product line.

The nRF52810 is an optimized product in terms of input/output ports and memory, and is the most accessible single-chip solution among Bluetooth 5 solutions currently available in the market.

The nRF52810 SoC provides twice the data bandwidth (2Mbps) compared to existing Bluetooth low-energy solutions based on Bluetooth 4.2, and particularly for beacon applications, it features an extended capability to increase the advertising packet payload size up to 251 bytes for more efficient data transmission, resulting in an 8-fold improvement in broadcasting performance.

Key target applications include network-connected sensors and beacon building blocks for IoT (Internet of Things), low-cost wearable devices, wireless mice and keyboards for computers and tablets, toys, disposable medical monitoring devices, and basic RF remote controls.

The SoC uses the same 100dBm link budget 2.4GHz multiprotocol wireless functionality as the nRF52832 SoC and features a 64MHz, 32-bit ARM Cortex M4 MCU, providing comparable RF performance and computational capability while consuming only 4.6mA each at 1Mbps Rx and 0dBm Tx power consumption.

Although the nRF52810 is the lowest-specification Bluetooth 5 SoC, it supports all commonly used input/output ports. Additionally, the nRF52810 SoC integrates 196kB flash and 24kB RAM (compared to 512kByte flash and 64kB RAM in the nRF52832 SoC), enabling it to execute typical application code for mass-production low-cost applications. OTA-DFU (Over-the-Air Device Firmware Update) functionality for target applications is also supported.

Geir Langeland, Sales and Marketing Director at Nordic Semiconductor, stated, "Even for the simplest applications, all wireless connectivity devices can gain significant benefits from the performance improvements offered by Bluetooth 5. However, initial Bluetooth 5 SoCs were not suitable for lower-tier applications due to their high price." He added, "Nordic has addressed this issue by launching the nRF52810 SoC. This low-cost product expands the application range of the nRF52 series, opening new possibilities for simple yet cost-constrained Bluetooth low-energy applications."