The Bluetooth® SIG recently announced Bluetooth 5, which is a significant upgrade from the existing Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2. The big improvements in range, speed and connection-less broadcasting capacity will propel Bluetooth into the home and building automation markets as well as other Internet of Things (IoT) application areas. Combined with the security and privacy upgrades delivered with Bluetooth 4.2, Bluetooth 5 will become the perfect wireless RF protocol for low-power mobile personal networks as well as longer range building and IoT networks.
At TI, we have long anticipated these upgrades. Our new and highly flexible SimpleLink™ ultra-low power CC2640R2F wireless microcontroller (MCU), released in December 2016 to mass production, was designed with Bluetooth 5 in mind and can already transmit and receive the new longer range and higher speed physical RF modulation formats. TI has released the first fully qualified Bluetooth 5 solution and will continue to introduce software updates to support all the new features of the Bluetooth 5 core specification. Developers who would like to build flexible solutions with an easy upgrade path to Bluetooth 5 are encouraged to start developing on the CC2640R2F wireless MCU today
What will Bluetooth 5 bring to the table?
The Bluetooth 5-ready SimpleLink Bluetooth low energy CC2640R2F wireless MCU family will be accompanied by software development kit (SDK) releases supporting Bluetooth 5 in the first half of 2017.
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