Industry’s most integrated Bluetooth smart module

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a Bluetooth Smart module that it claims is the market’s first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) solution to integrate programmable analogue and digital blocks in a fully-certified module. The small-form-factor EZ-BLE PSoC module includes Bluetooth 4.1 qualification and worldwide regulatory certification.

Based on Cypress’s PSoC 4 BLE Programmable SoC with an ARM Cortex-M0 core, the EZ-BLE PSoC module integrates all of the building blocks of a sensor-based system, along with Cypress’s CapSense capacitive touch-sensing functionality, two crystals, an on-board trace antenna, metal shield and passive components, all in an 11 x 11 x 1.8mm form factor.

The EZ-BLE PSoC module enables designers to create custom AFEs for sensor interfaces using programmable analogue blocks such as opamps, comparators, ADCs and DACs. Designers can integrate digital logic with the programmable digital blocks, which include Timers, Counters, Pulse-Width Modulators, Serial Communication Blocks and Universal Digital Blocks.

EZ-BLE PSoC joins Cypress’s EZ-BLE PRoC module, which is based on Cypress’s PRoC BLE Programmable Radio-on-Chip solution and is now in production in a 10 x 10 x 1.8mm form factor. EZ-BLE PRoC targets remote controls, health and fitness equipment, home appliances, toys and other wireless applications.