Products of the Week: January 22, 2024

Jan. 22, 2024

Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.

Dual-Core Bluetooth LE SoC with Integrated Flash Supports Multiple Applications

Renesas Electronics introduced the DA14592 SoC, offering low power consumption in a small, multicore (Cortex-M33, Cortex-M0+), Bluetooth LE device. Well-suited for a broad range of applications, the DA14592 offers a new low-power mode for a 2.3-mA radio transmit current at 0 dBm and 1.2-mA radio receive current. It also has a hibernation current of just 90 nA, extending battery life, with an ultra-low active current at 34 µA/MHz for products requiring significant application processing.

The DA14592 typically only requires six external components, and operates from a system clock and a highly accurate on-chip RCX to remove the need for a sleep-mode crystal for most applications. Available in a WLCSP package measuring 3.32 x 2.48 mm and a 5.1- x 4.3-mm FCQFN, it also includes a high-precision, sigma-delta ADC, up to 32 GPIOs, and a QSPI supporting external memory (flash or RAM) expansion for applications requiring extra memory.

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.