Cypress Semiconductor EZ-BLE and EZ-BT WICED Bluetooth modules

Cypress Semiconductor has released its fully integrated Bluetooth Smart Ready EZ-BT and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) EZ-BLE Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices (WICED) modules, with the aim of simplifying the design and development of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, home automation, medical devices and industrial applications.

The modules feature an onboard crystal oscillator, flash memory, passive components and a Cypress CYW207xx system-on-chip (SoC) with a 32-bit Arm Cortex-M3 processor. The low-power devices support pulse-width modulation (PWM) and analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) as well as UART, SPI and I²C serial communication. The EZ-BT module also includes a PCM/I²S audio interface and 512 KB of serial flash memory. The EZ-BLE module is available in a version with 128 KB of flash and 60 KB SRAM memory for over-the-air updates and self-sufficient operation.

The EZ-BT module includes a royalty-free Bluetooth stack compatible with Bluetooth 5.0, while the EZ-BLE modules ship with a royalty-free BLE stack compatible with Bluetooth 4.1. The EZ-BLE modules offer pre-programmed EZ-Serial firmware platform for immediate, easy-to-use BLE connectivity.

The modules are supported by Cypress’s WICED Studio software development kit (SDK), combining Wi-Fi and Bluetooth into a single integrated development environment (IDE). The IDE allows for the rapid configuration, development and programming of Bluetooth applications.