Texas Instruments CC1310 SimpleLink™ Ultra-Low Power Wireless Microcontroller is a cost-effective, ultra-low power sub-1 GHz RF device. It integrates a flexible, very low-power RF transceiver and a powerful 48MHz Cortex-M3 microcontroller on a platform supporting several physical layer and RF standards. It has a dedicated radio controller (Cortex-M0) responsible for low-level RF protocol commands stored in ROM or RAM, ensuring ultra-low power consumption and flexibility. The low power consumption of the CC1310 device does not sacrifice its RF performance; the CC1310 device has excellent sensitivity and robustness (selectivity and blocking). Very low RF and MCU active current, low power mode current consumption provide excellent battery life and enable operation from small coin cell batteries and in energy harvesting applications.

CHARACTERISTIC

Microcontroller

Powerful ARM® Cortex®-M3
EEMBC CoreMark® score: 142
EEMBC ULPBench™ score: 158
Up to 48MHz clock speed
128KB of In-system programmable flash
8KB of SRAM for cache (or as general-purpose RAM)
20KB of ultralow leakage SRAM
2-Pin cJTAG and JTAG debugging
Supports Over-the-Air Upgrade (OTA)

Ultralow power sensor controller

Can run autonomous from the rest of the system
16-Bit Architecture
2KB of Ultralow leakage SRAM for code and data

Efficient code-size architecture, placing TI-RTOS, drivers and bootloader in ROM
RoHS-compliant package

7mm×7mm RGZ VQFN48 (30 GPIOs)
5mm×5mm RHB VQFN48 (15 GPIOs)
4mm×4mm RSM VQFN48 (10 GPIOs)

Peripherals

All digital peripheral pins can be routed to any GPIO
Four general-purpose timer modules (eight 16-Bit or four 32-Bit timers, PWM each)
12-Bit ADC, 200 ksamples/s, 8-channel analog MUX
Continuous time comparator
Ultra-low power clocked comparator
Programmable current source
UART
2× SSI (SPI, MICROWIRE, TI)
I 2 C
I 2 S
Real-Time Clock (RTC)
AES-128 Security module
True Random Number Generator (TRNG)
Support for eight capacitive sensing buttons
Integrated Temperature Sensor

External system on-chip internal DC-DC converter

Very few external components
Seamless integration with the simpleLink CC1190 range extender

Low Power

1.8 to 3.8V Wide supply voltage range
5.5mA Active-Mode RX
12.9mA Active-Mode TX at +10dBm
2.5mA (51µA/MHz) Active-mode MCU 48MHz running coremark
48.5CoreMark/mA Active-Mode MCU
Active-mode sensor controller at 24MHz: 0.4mA + 8.2µA/MHz
0.85µA Sensor controller, one wake up every second performing one 12-Bit ADC sampling
0.6µA Standby (RTC running and RAM and CPU retention)
185nA Shutdown (wakeup on external events)

RF Section

Excellent receiver sensitivity -124dBm using long-range mode, -110dBm at 50kbps
52dBExcellent selectivity
90dBExcellent blocking performance
Programmable output power up to +14dBm
Single-ended or differential RF interface
Suitable for systems targeting compliance with worldwide radio frequency regulations

ETSI EN 300 220, EN 303 131, EN 303 204 (Europe)
FCC CFR47 Part 15 (US)
ARIB STD-T108 (Japan)

Wireless M-Bus and IEEE 802.15.4g PHY

Tools and development environment

Full-feature and low-cost development kits
Multiple reference designs for different RF configurations
Packet Sniffer PC Software
Sensor Controller Studio
SmartRF™ Studio
SmartRF Flash Programmer 2
IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM
Code Composer Studio™

APPLICATION

315, 433, 470, 500, 779, 868, 915, and 920MHz ISM and SRD systems
Low-power wireless systems with 50kHz to 5MHz channel spacing
SmartGrid and automatic meter reading
Home and building automation
Wireless alarm and security systems
Industrial monitoring and control
Wireless healthcare applications

Wireless sensor networks
Active RFID
IEEE 802.15.4g, IP-enabled smart objects (6LoWPAN), wireless M-Bus, KNX systems, Wi-SUN, ZigBee and proprietary systems
Energy harvesting applications
ESL (Electronic Shelf Label)
Long-range sensor applications
Heat cost allocators