STMicroelectronics BlueNRG-LPS

The BlueNRG-LPS is an ultra-low power programmable Bluetooth^® low energy wireless SoC solution. It embeds STMicroelectronics’s state-of-the-art 2.4 GHz radio IPs, optimized for ultra-low-power consumption and excellent radio performance, for unparalleled battery lifetime. It is compliant with Bluetooth^® low energy SIG core specification version 5.3 addressing point-to-point connectivity and Bluetooth Mesh networking and allows large-scale device networks to be established in a reliable way. The BlueNRG-LPS is also suitable for 2.4 GHz proprietary radio wireless communication to address ultra-low latency applications.

Key features

• Bluetooth low energy system-on-chip supporting Bluetooth 5.3 specifications
• Ultra-low power radio performance
• High performance and ultra-low power Arm^® Cortex^®-M0+ 32-bit, running up to 64 MHz
• -40 ºC to 105 ºC temperature range 

Additional features

• BLE 5.3 radio: 2Mbps / long-range / direction finding
• RX sensitivity level: -97 dBm @ 1Mbps / -104 dBm @ 125kbps
• Up to +8 dBm programmable output power
• ARM Cortex-M0+ @ 64MHz (14 μA/MHz dynamic consumption)
• Embedded memories: 192KB Flash / 24KB SRAM
• 4.3 mA TX current (@ 0dBm, 3.3 V)
• 3.4 mA RX current (@ sensitivity level, 3.3V)
• Up to 20 GPIOs and featured peripheral set (I2C, SPI, UART)
• Suitable for 2-layer PCB design
• Reduced BOM for cost optimized design:
  • Integrated RF BALUN / tunable capacitor-less 32MHz crystal
  • Embedded 32KHz low-power ring-oscillator
  • Integrated DC/DC step-down converter and LDO regulators 

Applications

• Industrial
• Home and industrial automation
• Asset tracking, ID location, real-time locating system
• Smart lighting
• Fitness,wellness and sports
• Healthcare, consumer medical
• Security/proximity
• Remote control
• Assisted living
• Mobile phone peripherals
• PC peripherals 

Webinar

Connect on https://distribution.st.com/s/ and discover more presentations about BlueNRG-LPS: https://distribution.st.com/s/contentdocument/0693W00000NrQwPQAV

Register for this On-demand webinar about Simple, cost-effective Bluetooth direction finding solutions with BlueNRG-LPS : https://content.st.com/bluetooth-direction-finding-solutions-with-bluenrg-lps-webinar.html?ecmp=tt28134_gl_social_aug2022 

Available tools 

STEVAL-IDB012V1: Evaluation platform based on the BlueNRG-LPS system-on-chip