Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced its easy to use, single-mode PSoC 4 BLE Programmable System on Chip and PRoCBLE Programmable Radio on Chip solutions are the world's first to achieve full-featured Bluetooth 4.2 qualification, which includes three key benefits for the Internet of Things (IoT). The benefits include: Data-Length Extension A maximum data rate of 800 Kbps, 2.5 times faster than Bluetooth 4.1. LE Privacy: Upgraded privacy that allows a user to designate trusted transmission sources and prevent tracking.

LE Secure Connections: Enhanced user security during connection setup to avoid eavesdropping attacks. These features enable the company's Bluetooth Low Energy solutions to address a broader range of applications for the IoT. PRoC BLE is a low-power Bluetooth Smart microcontroller with Cypress's CapSense capacitive touch-sensing functionality, while PSoC 4 BLE offers expanded design flexibility by adding intelligent analog and programmable digital blocks that enable simplified integration with sensors and actuators.

Both solutions integrate a Bluetooth Smart radio, a high-performance 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 core with ultra-low-power modes, 256KB flash memory, 32KB of SRAM, direct memory access (DMA) capability, 36 GPIOs, and customizable serial communication blocks, timers and counters. Customers designing with the solutions can apply to add the Bluetooth logo on their products by referring to Cypress's qualification identification number. Cypress has simplified the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol stack and profile configuration into a new royalty-free, GUI-based BLE Component "a free embedded IC within PSoC represented by an icon "that can be dragged and dropped into designs using the company's PSoC Creator integrated design environment (IDE).

Application details for the company's BLE Component are embedded in PSoC Creator with examples of all supported Bluetooth Low Energy profiles and hundreds of example projects for mixed-signal system designs. PSoC Creator enables complete system design in a single tool, accelerating time-to-market. The company provides additional design support with multiple development kits.