The SB1001 Scalable RF Transceiver IP is designed to maximise Performance per μW across the full range of BLE applications, enabling active Receiver power consumption as low as 3mW for medical devices, whilst delivering up to +10dBm for Transmit when needed for industrial applications. It is optimised for applications such as BLE, 802.15.4 (Zigbee, Matter) and proprietary standards operating at 2.4GHz.
By focussing on Performance per μW, the SB1001-RF22 will enable any SoC to dominate its market on these metrics. In turn, fabless semiconductor companies need only support one BLE subsystem platform, massively reducing their associated R&D costs.
If used with our SB1001-series Controller and Modem IP’s, BLE sensitivity of -101dBm is achievable at 1Mbps, whilst Transmit total power consumption lower than 9mW is achieved at +0dBm. The Scalable RFIP operates from voltages as low as 1.05V, with higher voltages needed to achieve Transmit powers above +6dBm.
SB1001-RF22 works best with a single variable voltage, as it includes built-in LDO’s to simplify its integration with third-party Basebands. SiliconBlu can support customers with both Controller and Modem BLE 6.0 IP when needed.
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS INCLUDE:
- Single RFIP to enable class-leading Performance per μW across multiple applications
- Modulation is GFSK, which is compatible with multiple modulation formats, including 802.15.4
- Excellent Receiver linearity which is necessary for high performance wireless sensing networks
- Programmable Noise Figure – this enables one to trade performance for lower power consumption
- Transmitter output is programmable from -20dBm to +0dBm in 1dB steps, and 0.5dB steps above +0dBm
- Operation to specification from -20°C to +105°C, with full functionality maintained from -40°C to +125°C
- Noise Figure < 4.5dB (1Mbps), no external filter on the Receiver – a pi-filter will reduce NF by 0.4dB, if needed
- Single voltage supply: 1.05V to 2.0V; RX to -101dBm and TX to +6dBm at 1.05V. V IN > 1.05V for TX to +6dBm
- Integrated PA with Tx to +8.5dBm for QFN, and +10dBm for BGA
- High performance, ultra efficient BLE radio
- Supports BLE 6.0: Isochronous Channels, PAwR, Direction Finding, BLE Mesh and Channel Sounding
- Supports 802.15.4, Matter, Thread, Zigbee
- Single-ended RF pin to reduce eBOM
- TX current (from 3.0V): 2.85mA at +0dBm, 4.5mA at +5.5dBm, 11.5mA at +8.5dBm
- RX current (from 3.0V, 1Mbps): 2.1mA at -101dBm, 0.9mA at -93dBm
