EM Microelectronic announces qualification of new CoolRF chip at the Bluetooth Technology Conference 2011

The true low voltage design of the EM9301, combined with its ultra-low current consumption, confirms EM Microlectronic's leadership in providing lowest power solutions on the market. Interfaced with a 8051-based application controller from the market, this CoolRF circuit offers the industry's most energy-efficient solution for a Bluetooth low energy application.



EM9301 Bluetooth low energy solutions are typically tailored for portable applications requiring both low voltage and low energy connection types. In receive mode, the circuit requires only 16.5mA peak current from physical layer to application layer. Under the same operating conditions, competing products consume up to 23mA peak current from physical layer to host interface only. With its integrated DC/DC converter, the circuit is capable of operating the RF functions while delivering up to 100mA to an external device. When the Bluetooth low energy connection is not required, the system power budget can be optimized by setting the sleep or idle mode in which the circuit itself consumes less than 1.0uA.



The EM9301 is fully compliant with Bluetooth V4.0 specification adopted by the Bluetooth SIG. It is a single-mode and master-slave Bluetooth low energy qualified solution, providing full Bluetooth low energy functionality from the radio up to the host controller interface (HCI).

Due to its state-of-the-art architecture, the EM9301 can be interfaced with any 8, 16 or 32bit host controller, which allows much better cost/performance optimized solutions than comparable products with fully integrated and often overpowered host controllers.



To fit the single-mode Bluetooth low energy applications, the EM9301 companion chip offer a system solution providing flexible power management, while running from a single supply. The total system cost remains low as the bill-of-material (BOM) can be limited to only few basic external passive components.