Development kit addresses BLE IoT applications

The ON Semiconductor RSL10 SoC is said to be the industry’s lowest-power Bluetooth 5 certified radio, optimised for Bluetooth Low Energy applications.

Featuring an Arm Cortex-M3 core, and a low power DSP and a 2.4GHz transceiver, its peak receive power is 7mW and its “deep sleep” consumption when inactive is just 62.5nW.

Designed for use with 1.2 and 1.5V batteries, the SoC accepts a voltage supply range between 1.1 and 3.3 V without requiring a DC/DC converter.

The B-IDK is a modular node-to-cloud IoT platform for development of Bluetooth Low Energy applications.

It comprises an RSL10 baseboard (BDK-GEVK) and is supported by a range of modular sensor and actuator hardware options. The intuitive and easy-to-use Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and software featuring several examples enables rapid development of many IoT use cases. The BDK-GEVK comes with a configurable mobile app that controls the sensors and actuators.

The app also supports cloud connectivity, allowing MQTT publishing of and subscribing to sensor/actuator data via AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, or custom cloud services.

Sensor options for use with the BDK-GEVK include Ambient Light, Inertial and Environment (ALS/IMU/ENV), proximity and motion, and touch/level.

Higher-power control options come in the form of actuator daughter cards that plug into the baseboard via ON Semiconductor’s BDK-DCDC-GEVB DC power adaptor.

They include a power ballast with dual LED driver, a stepper motor controller, and a brushless DC motor controller.

The B-IDK software includes the CMSIS (Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard) vendor-independent development pack for the Arm Cortex-M processor series.

The package provides detailed documentation and ready-to-use sample code for several use cases.

The ON Semiconductor Bluetooth IoT Development Kit (B-IDK) is available now from RS in the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions.