Single IC for cellular IoT and DECT NR+ includes RF front-end

Known as nRF9161, it's a globally pre-certified IC “that makes it doable to pick both mobile IoT connectivity utilizing the safe mobile infrastructure or use DECT NR+ to understand personal 5G networking”, based on the corporate. “The product additionally boasts enhanced GNSS and cell-based location efficiency.”

The variations in comparison with its predecessor (nRF9160), embrace 1.9GHz DECT NR+ help and 3GPP launch 14 LTE-M/NB-IoT help (700MHz – 2.2GHz LTE band).

On board is a 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 with 1Mbte flash and 256kbyte RAM. Safety comes by means of Arm’s TrustZone and CryptoCell.

“Reap the benefits of power-saving options like eDRX, PSM, and AS-RAI, together with IPv4/IPv6 help as much as the transport and safety [TCP/TLS] stage,” stated Nordic. “Guarantee your gadget stays updated with safe firmware over-the-air updates.”

Packaging is a ten x 16mm however, if that is too huge, the 11x7mm nRF9131 was additionally introduced, which is a “feature-compatible different to nRF9161”, stated Nordic. “nRF9131 is prefect for DECT NR+ purposes. It additionally helps mobile operations utilising the identical LTE stack as nRF9161.”

That stated, it's not feature-equivalent because the bodily shrink comes from leaving out the ability chip, which is able to have to be offered externally.

It additionally looses international certification.

In contrast with the bigger gadget, stated the corporate: “it’s necessary to notice that mobile finish product certification NRE [non-recurring expenses] will enhance relying on wanted geographical protection. This makes it a intriguing selection for international NR+ purposes as effectively high-volume mobile merchandise focusing on particular areas.”

Neither nRF9161 or nRF9131 are in manufacturing but, however they're sampling.

Growth sources for each embrace nRF Join SDK (software program growth package), for which a which a Visible Studio Code growth extension is out there. There are additionally mobile IoT instruments for optimising energy consumption and community debugging.

On high of the brand new {hardware}, Nordc has added a cloud safety service and cloud gadget administration for safe distant provisioning, cryptographic identification authentication, gadget state monitoring and protocol-agnostic connectivity, it stated.

The nRF9161 product web page will be discovered right here, however at present lacks a lot technical element.