Bluetooth
Bluetooth is one of the most common wireless technologies in the market, propelled into the consumer world by the smartphone, as well as increased demand for fitness, health, and entertainment devices.
And Bluetooth Industrial applications are growing fast.
The newest Bluetooth version is 6.0, which offers Bluetooth Channel Sounding, Decision-Based Advertising Filtering, Monitoring Advertisers, ISOAL enhancements, LL Extended Feature Set, Frame Space updates, and more.
The stack support is most often driven via the Chip Vendor and whilst it is common for the stack to be implemented in the chip or module, some are still supporting HCI interfacing capabilities, which can provide increased flexibility.
Our Bluetooth linecard, below, will help guide you to the right solution, and if you need to talk to one of experts about your design, you can reach them here.
| Bluetooth | Chips & SoC | Modules | Multi-protocol | Mesh & Direction finding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplier | ||||
| AzureWave Technologies | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Digi | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Insight-SIP | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Microchip | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Nordic | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| NXP | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| onsemi | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Panasonic | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Raytac | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Renesas | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| STMicroelectronics | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| u-blox | ✔ | ✔ | ||
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