Bluetooth 5 IP Powers Radio SoC for Connected Health and Wellness Devices

CEVA, Inc. announces that ON Semiconductor has licensed and deployed the RivieraWaves Bluetooth 5 low energy technology in its new RSL10 radio System-on-Chip (SoC).

Capable of supporting the advanced wireless functionalities emerging in IoT and Connected Health and Wellness markets, RSL10 is one of the first Bluetooth low energy 5.0 chips to achieve certification from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group.

CEVA’s RivieraWaves Bluetooth 5 IP platforms, with Bluetooth low energy and Bluetooth dual mode flavors, consist of a hardware baseband controller, plus a feature-rich software protocol stack. A flexible radio interface allows the platforms to be deployed with either RivieraWaves RF or various partners’ RF IP, enabling optimal selection of foundry and process node. All the Bluetooth 5 features are supported, including LE 2Mbps data rate, Long Range and LE Advertising Extension.. With more than 1 billion devices shipped to date and dozens of licensees, the RivieraWaves Bluetooth IP is widely deployed in consumer and IoT devices with many of the world’s leading semiconductors companies and OEMs, including smartphones, tablets, wireless headsets, wireless speakers, wearables, and hearing aids.