Texas Instruments CC2642R/CC2642R-Q1 SimpleLink™ BLUETOOTH® LE MCU

Texas Instruments CC2642R/CC2642R-Q1 SimpleLink™ BLUETOOTH® Low Energy Microcontroller (MCU) is a wireless MCU that targets Bluetooth 4 and 5 Low Energy applications. The CC2642R/CC2642R-Q1 device is a member of the SimpleLink™ MCU platform of cost-effective, ultra-low power, 2.4GHz, and Sub-1GHz RF devices. These devices have a very low active RF and microcontroller (MCU) current and sub-µA sleep current with up to 80KB of parity-protected RAM retention. This device also provides excellent battery life and allows for operation on small coin-cell batteries and in energy-harvesting applications.

The CC2642R/CC2642R-Q1 device combines a flexible, very low-power RF transceiver with a powerful 48MHz Arm® Cortex®-M4F CPU in a platform supporting multiple physical layers and RF standards. A dedicated Radio Controller (Arm Cortex-M0) handles low-level RF protocol commands stored in ROM or RAM, thus ensuring ultra-low power and great flexibility. The low power consumption of the CC2642R/CC2642R-Q1 device does not come at the expense of RF performance; the CC2642R/CC2642R-Q1 device has excellent sensitivity and robustness (selectivity and blocking) performance. The CC2642R/CC2642R-Q1 device is a highly integrated, true single-chip solution incorporating a complete RF system and an on-chip DC/DC converter. The Texas Instruments CC2642R-Q1 devices are AEC-Q100 qualified for automotive applications.

Features

  • Microcontroller
    • Powerful 48MHz Arm Cortex-M4F processor
    • EEMBC CoreMark® score: 148
    • 352KB of in-system programmable Flash
    • 256KB of ROM for protocols and firmware
    • 8KB of cache SRAM (alternatively available as general-purpose RAM)
    • 80KB of ultra-low leakage SRAM with parity
    • 2-Pin cJTAG and JTAG debugging
    • Supports Over-the-Air upgrade (OTA)
  • Ultra-low power sensor controller with 4KB of SRAM
  • TI-RTOS, drivers, bootloader, Bluetooth 5 low-energy controller, and IEEE 802.15.4 MAC in ROM for optimized application size
  • RoHS-compliant package
    • 7mm × 7mm RGZ VQFN48 (31 GPIOs)
  • Peripherals
    • Digital peripherals can be routed to any GPIO
    • 4× 32-bit or 8× 16-bit general-purpose timers
    • 12-bit ADC, 200kSamples/s, 8 channels
    • 2× comparators with internal reference DAC (1× continuous time, 1× ultra-low power)
    • Programmable current source
    • 2× UART
    • 2× SSI (SPI, MICROWIRE, TI)
    • I2C
    • I2S
    • Real-Time Clock (RTC)
    • AES 128 and 256-bit crypto accelerator
    • ECC and RSA public key hardware accelerator
    • SHA2 accelerator (full suite up to SHA-512)
    • True Random Number Generator (TRNG)
    • Capacitive sensing, up to 8 channels
    • Integrated temperature and battery monitor
  • External system
    • On-chip buck DC/DC converter
  • Low power
    • 1.8V to 3.8V wide supply voltage range 
    • Active-mode RX: 6.9mA
    • Active-mode TX 0dBm: 7.3mA
    • Active-mode TX 5dBm: 9.6mA
    • Active-mode MCU 48MHz (CoreMark): 3.4mA (71µA/MHz)
    • Sensor controller, low power-mode, 2MHz, running infinite loop: 30.8µA
    • Sensor controller, active-mode, 24MHz, running infinite loop: 808µA
    • Standby: 0.94µA (RTC on, 80KB RAM and CPU retention)
    • Shutdown: 150nA (wakeup on external events)
  • Radio section
    • 2.4GHz RF transceiver compatible with Bluetooth 5 low-energy
    • Excellent receiver sensitivity
      • –105dBm for Bluetooth 125kbps (LE coded PHY)
      • –97dBm for 1Mbps PHY
    • Output power up to +5dBm with temperature compensation
    • Suitable for systems targeting compliance with worldwide radio frequency regulations
      • EN 300 328, (Europe)
      • EN 300 440 Class 2 (Europe)
      • FCC CFR47 Part 15 (US)
      • ARIB STD-T66 (Japan)

Applications

  • Consumer electronics
  • Mobile phone accessories
  • Sports and fitness equipment
  • HID applications
  • Medical
  • Smart grid and automatic meter reading
  • Home and building automation
  • Wireless alarm and security systems
  • Industrial monitoring and control
  • Wireless healthcare applications
  • Wireless sensor networks
  • Active RFID
  • Energy harvesting applications
  • Electronic Shelf Label (ESL)
  • Long-range sensor applications

Functional Block Diagram

Block Diagram - Texas Instruments CC2642R/CC2642R-Q1 SimpleLink™ BLUETOOTH® LE MCU
Published: 2019-04-29 | Updated: 2023-08-29