Silicon Labs' BGM13P is a PCB module for Bluetooth 5 LE and Bluetooth Mesh connectivity built around the EFR32BG13 Blue Gecko SoC. It delivers robust RF performance, low energy consumption, regulatory compliance certifications, a wide selection of MCU peripherals, and a simplified development experience, all in a small 12.9 mm x 15 mm form factor.
Minimizing the engineering efforts and development costs associated with adding Bluetooth connectivity to any design, the BGM13P helps accelerate the time-to-market of products for end applications like IoT end-node devices and gateways, sports and wellness, home and building automation, beacons, industrial automation, and others.
Resources
- Bluetooth 5 Learning Center
- Bluetooth Mesh
Module Benefits
- Quickly and easily adds Bluetooth 5 LE or Bluetooth Mesh connectivity to any design
- Supports high throughput, long range, and regular Bluetooth LE PHYs
- Eliminates need for RF design expertise
- Contains all necessary external components, including antenna
- Comes with regulatory RF compliance certifications
- Works with industry-proven, certified stacks and development tools from Silicon Labs
- Supports stand-alone and network co-processor (NCP) operation
- Provides easy migration path to discrete Blue Gecko SoC if applicable
- Enables rapid time-to-market
- Achieves 200 m line-of-sight range at +8 dBm TX and 700 m at +19 dBm TX
Features
- Rich analog and digital peripherals
- Up to 25 GPIO
- 12-bit ADC
- Voltage DACs
- Operational amplifiers
- Low energy sensor interface
- Multi-channel capacitive sense interface
- Analog comparators
- Low energy UART
- USARTs (UART, SPI, IrDA, I2S)
- I2C
- Timers
- Dimensions
- MCU and memory options
- 40 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M4
- Low active mode current: 70 µA/MHz
- 512 kB Flash
- 64 kB RAM
- Security
- AES256/128 hardware crypto accelerator with ECC, SHA-1, SHA-2
- TRNG
- Bluetooth 5 radio
- 2.4 GHz GFSK
- Up to +8 dBm programmable output power
- 9.5 mA RX current
- 9.5 mA active mode TX at 0 dBm
Applications
- Consumer applications
- Smart watches, garage door openers, smart tags, and baby monitors
- Commercial applications
- Beacons, electronic shelf labels, proximity sensors, and asset management
- Home CE devices
- Remote controls, gaming controllers, and 3D glasses
- Sports and fitness
- Activity monitors, heart rate monitors, and pedometers
- Industrial applications
- Environment monitoring, public venues, and public transportation