Cypress offers fully-certified, small-form-factor Bluetooth Smart module

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a Bluetooth Smart module that has been designed to provide an end-to-end Bluetooth Low Energy solution. The new, small-form-factor EZ-BLE PRoC module, based on Cypress’s PRoC BLE Programmable Radio-on-Chip solution, includes Bluetooth 4.1 qualification and worldwide regulatory certification, simplifying design and cutting time to market.

The EZ-BLE PRoC module integrates the programmability and ARM Cortex-M0 core of PRoC BLE, two crystals, an on-board chip antenna, metal shield and passive components, all in a compact 10-mm x 10-mm x 1.8-mm form factor. Customers designing with the module can apply to add the Bluetooth logo on their products by referring to Cypress's Qualification Design Identification (QDID) 67366, a unique serial number assigned by the Bluetooth SIG.

In addition, the module is compliant to wireless regulatory standards in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Korea and Europe.

Designers looking to create Bluetooth Smart products must often use software tools from multiple vendors and develop complex firmware to meet wireless specifications. Cypress has abstracted the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol stack and profile configuration into a royalty-free, GUI-based BLE component that can be dragged and dropped into designs using Cypress's PSoC Creator integrated design environment (IDE). PSoC Creator enables complete system design in a single tool.

Application details for Cypress's BLE Component are embedded in PSoC Creator with examples of all supported Bluetooth Low Energy profiles and hundreds of example projects for mixed-signal system designs.