SWRS309 September   2024 CC3501E

ADVANCE INFORMATION  

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  2. 1Features
  3. 2Applications
  4. 3Description
  5. 4Functional Block Diagram
  6. 5Pin Diagram
  7. 6Revision History
  8. 7Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable Information

Package Options

Mechanical Data (Package|Pins)
Thermal pad, mechanical data (Package|Pins)
Orderable Information

Features

Microcontroller

  • Powerful 160MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33 processor with FPU, TrustZone®, and AI acceleration
  • High-speed quad-SPI and octal-SPI for XiP flash with on-the-fly decryption
  • Flexible configuration of low-latency TCM (up to 32KB) and cache (32KB or 64KB) for improved code execution performance
  • Over 1MB embedded SRAM including 128KB TCM for Wi-Fi, BLE, networking, and application data
  • Support for additional external PSRAM

Peripherals

  • Up to 38 I/Os with flexible multiplexing options
  • 8 x general-purpose timers and pulse-width modulation (PWM)
  • 2 x universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART)
  • 2 x Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
  • 2 x inter-integrated circuit (I2C)
  • Inter-IC sound (I2S)
  • Pulse density modulation (PDM)
  • Secure digital and multimedia card (SD/MMC)
  • Secure digital input output (SDIO) 2.0
  • Controller area network (CAN) 2.0
  • 8-channel, 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC)

System Services

  • Direct memory access (DMA)
  • One-time-programmable memory (OTP)
  • Real-time clock (RTC) and watchdog timer (WDT)

Radio

  • Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)

    • Single-stream 20MHz channels with application throughput up to 20Mbps (UDP)

    • Compatible with IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ax

      • Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA)
      • Target wake time (TWT)
      • Trigger frames
      • Basic service set (BSS) color
    • Integrated PA for complete WLAN system with up to 20dBm output power at 1 DSSS
    • Role support: STA, softAP with up to 4 stations, Wi-Fi direct, multi-role AP + STA
    • Support for personal and enterprise Wi-Fi security: WPA and WPA2 PSK, WPA2 Enterprise, WPA3 personal or enterprise
    • Wi-Fi TX Power:
      • 20dBm at 1 DSSS
      • 16dBm at 54 OFDM
    • Wi-Fi RX Sensitivity:
      • –98.6dBm at 1 DSSS
      • –77.2dBm at 54 OFDM
  • Bluetooth® low energy

    • Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 certified stack
    • Supports long-range and high-speed PHYs (up to 2Mbps)

Security Features

  • ARM TrustZone
  • Hardware security module supporting all of the following:
    • ECC, RSA, AES, SHA2/3, MD5, CRC 16/32, and TRNG
    • Secure key storage
  • Initial secure programming
  • Secure boot
  • Software IP and cloning protection
  • Debug security through JTAG and debug port lock
  • OTP with the ability to program root-of-trust public key
  • Secure over-the-air (OTA) updates
  • Anti-rollback protection

Clock Source

  • 40.0MHz crystal or external clock
  • Internal 32.768kHz low-frequency oscillator, external XTAL, or slow clock options

Power Management

  • Support for 3.3V or 1.8V I/Os
  • Supplies: VPA: 3.3V, VMAIN: 1.8V, VIO: 1.8/3.3V

Key Benefits

  • Complete software development kit with open-source TCP/IP and TLS stacks
  • Operating temperature: –40°C to +105°C
  • Support for 3-wire PTA coexistence interface for use with external 2.4GHz radios (for example Thread or Zigbee®)
  • Antenna selection capability

Package

  • Easy to design with 56-pin, 7mm × 7mm quad flat no leaded (QFN) package