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Silicon Labs has announced an Arm Cortex-M33 based family of secured wireless microcontrollers covering Matter, OpenThread, Zigbee and Bluetooth LE. Called xG26, it consists of MG26 devices for Matter, OpenThread and Zigbee, BG26 devices for Bluetooth LE and Bluetooth Mesh, and PG26 devices for the same processing power without wireless transceivers. “As users from consumer to industrial sectors extract more ...

NXP has finally revealed the wireless versions of its MCX microcontrollers, first announced in mid-2022. “Featuring the industry’s first MCU with Bluetooth Channel Sounding, NXP’s MCX W series enables edge devices with secure multi-protocol wireless for Matter, Thread, Zigbee and Bluetooth Low Energy,” according to the company, which explained: “Bluetooth Channel Sounding standard improves the accuracy and security of distance ...

u-blox has announced four stamp-sized wireless MCU modules that can run user code and support Bluetooth LE 5.4, Thread, Matter and PSA Certified Level 3 security. ALMA-B10x versions are built around Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF54H20 wireless microcontrollers and have dual 320MHz Arm Cortex-M33 cores, dual 320MHz RISC-V cores, plus 2Mbyte of non-volatile memory and 1Mbyte ram. They also support NFC-A. NORA-B20x ...

Nordic Semiconductor is aiming at Bluetooth, Thread and Matter with a secured wireless microcontroller built around a 128MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor with 1.5Mbyte of non-volatile memory and 256kbyte of ram, which it describes as “ample for concurrent running of multiple protocols” and providing “double the processing power of the nRF52840 SoC while reducing power consumption” – the claim includes halved ...

Nordic Semiconductor has announced an SoCs for Bluetooth Low Energy, LE Audio, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Matter with “multiple Arm Cortex-M33 processors, clocked up to 320MHz” and “multiple RISC-V coprocessors”, it said. Part of a forthcoming nRF54 series, the new IC, nRF54H20, will be fabricated on GlobalFoundries’ 22FDX process and “capable of supporting Bluetooth 5.4 and future Bluetooth specifications, plus ...

With Matter communication in mind, Murata has combined Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPAN radios in a single module – LBES5PL2EL, which it described in detail at Embedded World in Nuremberg today. “There are still only a few Matter-compliant solutions on the market, yet the potential for it to deliver convenience and comfort to the places in which we ...

Texas Instruments has introduced Matter-enabled software development kits for  its Wi-Fi and Thread wireless microcontrollers. “Engineers can use the software and wireless MCUs, such as the CC3235SF and CC2652R7, to create low-power secure battery-powered smart home and industrial automation IoT applications that connect with devices across proprietary ecosystems,” according to the company. Matter is a royalty-free connectivity protocol developed by ...

Nordic Semiconductor supports the 1.0 version of Matter over Thread with the latest issue (2.1.0) of its nRF Connect software development kit (SDK). “This support is related to the Connectivity Standard Alliance’s formal adoption of Matter specification version 1.0,” according to the company. “This support allows developers to get started immediately on Matter over Thread development using Nordic’s nRF52840 and ...

Nordic’s Thingy:53 is a development board that supports Bluetooth LE, Thread, Matter, Zigbee, IEEE 802.15.4, NFC and Bluetooth Mesh RF protocols, and is capable of running embedded machine learning models. It is based on the company’s nRF5340 IC which has a 128 MHz dual-core Arm Cortex-M33 SoC for network and application processing, backed by 1Mbyte of flash and a 512kbyte ram. ...

U-blox has announced a radio module supporting Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth low energy 5.2 and IEEE 802.15.4 (Thread and Zigbee) that occupies only 10.4 x 14.3 x 1.9mm. “Wi-Fi 6, also referred to as 802.11ax, offers better network efficiency – especially in congested areas, lower latency and improved range over previous Wi-Fi standards,” said U-blox. “Thread paves the way for low-power IP-based mesh ...