onsemi’s RSL15 is an ultra-low-power secure Arm® Cortex®-M33 processor-based Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.2 wireless MCU designed for connected smart devices in industrial and medical applications.
With built-in power management, a wide supply voltage range, flexible GPIO and clocking scheme, and an extensive set of peripherals, the RSL15 offers maximum design flexibility for high-performance and ultra-low-power applications. The RSL15 includes 80 kB RAM and is available in 284 kB or 512 kB Flash options.
- Industry leading general-purpose microcontroller (MCU)
- Industry’s lowest power Flash-based secure Bluetooth low energy MCU
- Latest in embedded security with root of trust
- Bluetooth low energy 5.2 with long range and localization
The comprehensive yet easy-to-use software development kit (SDK) contains drivers, libraries, sample code, development tools, and mobile apps RSL15 central for iOS® and Android™ and RSL FOTA for iOSand Android.
To get started with RSL15, download the SDK components: RSL15 documentation package, onsemi IDE installer, and RSL15 firmware package.
Resources
- Bluetooth 5.2 wireless MCU RSL15 product overview
Features
- BLE 5.2 certified with key features
- Up to 10 simultaneous connections
- Long range (coded PHY)
- 2 Mbit PHY (high-speed)
- Angle of arrival (AoA) and angle of departure (AoD)
- Extended advertising
- Backward compatibility and support for earlier BLE specifications, including 5.1, 5.0, 4.2, 4.1, and 4.0
- Ultra-low-power operation
- Sleep mode (GPIO wakeup) @ 3 V VBAT: 36 nA
- Sleep mode (crystal oscillator, RTC timer wakeup) @ 3 V VBAT: 81 nA
- Smart sense mode allows some digital and analog peripherals to remain active to monitor and acquire data from external sensors at a very low system-level power consumption
- Continuous ADC operation in smart sense mode with wakeup on ADC threshold @ 3 V VBAT: 186 nA
- Peak Rx current 1 Mbps @ 3 V VBAT: 2.7 mA
- Peak Tx current 0 dBm output power @ 3 V VBAT: 4.3 mA
- Non-connectable advertising at 5 s intervals @ 3 V VBAT: 1.1 A (average)
- Connectable advertising at 5 s intervals @ 3 V VBAT: 1.3 A (average)
- Rx sensitivity (BLE Mode, 1 Mbps): -96 dBm
- Rx sensitivity (BLE Mode, 2 Mbps): -94 dBm
- Configurable Tx power: -17 dBm to +6 dBm
- Data rate of 62.5 kbps to 2000 kpbs
- Arm Cortex-M33 processor clocked up to 48 MHz
- Cybersecurity platform with Arm CryptoCell™-312 for end-to-end product security with secure boot, root of trust, lifecycle management, secure key management, and application and data security
- Arm TrustZone® to enable secure execution zones
- Two Flash memory sizes available: 284 kB Flash (NCH−RSL15-284-101Q40-ACG) or 512 kB Flash (NCH-RSL15-512-101Q40-ACG)
- 80 kB RAM (64 kB user RAM, 16 kB RAM for baseband)
- Flexible power management: 1.2 V to 3.6 V VBAT directly connect 1.5 V silver-oxide or 3 V coin cells without any external active components
- Two SPI ports with QSPI capability
Applications
- Industrial automation and sensing
- Connected medical sensors
- Wearables
- Asset tracking
- Electronic tags and access control
- Electronic labels
- Data loggers
- Smart appliances
- Energy harvesting switches