• New! CC2540 Bluetooth low energy
• TI Bluetooth® connectivity available for your MSP430™ microcontroller design

• New! CC-Antenna Development Kit
• SmartRF™ Studio 7 version 1.3.1
• SmartRF™ Packet Sniffer ver. 2.13.1
• SmartRF™ Flash Programmer version 1.9.0

• White Paper: Coin cells and peak current draw
• DN035 Antenna Selection Quick Guide
• AN058 Antenna Selection Guide
• AN092 Measuring Bluetooth Low Energy Power Consumption
• AN093 Modifying Radio Register Parameters for SimpliciTI™ Applications
• AN082 One way and two way audio communications using the CC1110 or CC2510 and the TLV320AIC26 Codec

• Radiocrafts releases new KNX-RF radio module

• TI extends its lead in wireless connectivity with industry’s first complete Bluetooth® low energy solution and highest integrated ANT™ network processor
• Article: Accelerating mobile health systems through technology
• Bluetooth Innovation World Cup finalists

• electronica 2010 – meet with TI’s RF and wireless experts
• Bluetooth low energy Panel Discussion @ electronica 2010
• Experience TI’s PurePath™ Wireless Audio at the AES San Francisco, Nov 4 – 7 2010
• Texas Instruments Technology Days 2010

• CC2431 x CC430FF5133 Range
• PCB width and layers’ quantity
• CC2591 Range

The CC2540 Bluetooth® low energy single-mode system-on-chip is an ultra-low power, short-range wireless connectivity solution for consumer medical, mobile accessories, sports and wellness applications. The CC2540 is the industry’s first complete single-mode Bluetooth low energy solution.
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Add Bluetooth connectivity to your new and existing MSP430 designs with a pre-integrated MSP430BT5190 + CC2560 Bluetooth solution that enables fast and easy application development on MSP430 platform with TI’s industry-proven Bluetooth technology.

• Support for CC2540 added.
• The RSSI value will be shown as part of the packet content in the “Packet RX” panel.
• The registers OBSSEL0 – OBSSEL5 added to the register view of CC253x
• Packet TX/RX for CC430 enhanced to enable the use of data rate < 1.2 kBaud.

• Support for the Bluetooth low energy protocol (CC2540 USB Dongle or CC2540EM + SmartRF05EB as capturing device).
• Improved stability of firmware for the capturing devices. CCxx10/CCxx11 now also supports fixed packet length protocols.
• Problem with display of encrypted payload for RF4CE solved.
• Some of the panels (tabs at the bottom of the UI) have been changed to make the input more intuitive for the user.

• Support for read/write of IEEE Mac address (48 bit) for CC2540 added. Both GUI and console programmer.
• Reading of both primary and secondary IEEE addresses added to the console programmer.

Designers of portable equipment using coin cell batteries are challenged by system level energy budget considerations, mainly driven by MCU and RF current consumption, as well as by the capacity and specification limits battery manufacturers provide. This report shows that adding a capacitor in parallel with a CR2032 coin cell is the most effective choice a designer can make to maximize battery capacity utilization in low power RF applications (more than 40% improvement with poor quality CR2032s). The test results also show that using 30mA peak current versus 15mA peak current only slightly reduce the effective capacity of a CR2032 (9% on average depending on vendor). These observations are valid across all six coin cell vendors tested, and implies that minimizing average current is the key to achieving long battery life with CR2032s

This one page document gives a complete overview of the antenna support documentation available. The Quick Guide also provides a summary of the frequency of operation, typical efficiency, bandwidth @VSWR 2.0, and dimensions for the antenna reference designs available.

The antenna selection guide has been updated with new antenna reference designs, more antenna theory, and more resources such as literature, applicable EM simulation tools, and a list of antenna manufacturers and consultants.

The Bluetooth® low energy standard was developed with long battery life in mind, allowing for devices that can last anywhere from several months to several years while operating on a single coin-cell battery. This application note describes the setup and procedures to measure power consumption on the CC2540 device operating as a GAP “Peripheral” in a BLE connection.

This document shows how to modify the radio parameters used by a SimpliciTI application using the SmartRF Studio development tool to generate updated parameters automatically.

This application note has been updated to fully detail the possible sample-rate and ADC resolution options for one-way and two-way voice-quality wireless audio communications using CC2510 or CC1110 system-on-chip devices and external codecs. The example software included with the application note can support up to a 16-kHz sampling rate with 16 bits resolution (compressed) or 12-kHz/16-bits uncompressed for two-way communication and 24-kHz sampling with 16 bits resolution for one-way communication.

Radiocrafts has launched the new compact KNX-RF module, named RC1180-KNX1. The RC1180-KNX1 is the market’s smallest module based on the worldwide KNX standard for home and building control, and represents the first module in Radiocrafts’ KNX-RF series. As a member of the KNX association, Radiocrafts is working closely with the association to enable manufacturers of wired KNX products to develop wireless products compliant with the KNX-RF standard. Radiocrafts’ KNX-RF module conforms to the EN 50090 (ISO/IEC 14543-3) standard and uses a chipset solution from Texas Instruments that has already been successfully implemented in Radiocrafts’ wireless MBUS product series.
Meet with the Radiocrafts team at electronica 2010, stand # A4.565.

TI has introduced two ultra-low power, short-range wireless connectivity solutions for consumer medical, mobile accessories, sports and wellness applications. The CC2540 single-mode Bluetooth® low energy system-on-chip and the CC257x ANT™ network processor can enable target applications to operate on a coin cell for more than a year.

Hall A3, electronica Forum
Tuesday, 9 November, 2010, 13.30 – 15.25
Low Energy – High Connectivity?
Experts discuss the upcoming standard Bluetooth low energy technology with regard to healthcare, sports & fitness, home automation.

Come visit TI’s audio team (booth # 938 ) at AES San Francisco 2010. Meet with TI’s audio experts and check out the latest devices, resources and tools available to support your design needs and help keep you ahead of the competition. Experience the perfect wireless sound of our PurePath™ Wireless audio solution and see how our industry-leading software and scalable silicon solutions can help you get the sound you want from your audio systems.

Coming up next

Americas: Orlando November 11, Austin, November 30, Buenos Aires (date TBD)
Europe: Paris, France November 4, Bochum, Germany December 1