Fanstel Compact BC15 BLUETOOTH® 6.0 Modules

Fanstel Compact BC15 BLUETOOTH^® 6.0 Modules are robust, highly flexible, ultra-low-power Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices utilizing a Nordic nRF54L15 SoC. The BC15 combines an Arm^® Cortex^®-M33 MCU, 1.524MB flash, 256KB RAM, an embedded 2.4GHz multiprotocol transceiver, and an integrated chip antenna or a u.FL for an external antenna.

The Fanstel Compact BC15 Bluetooth 6.0 Modules enable a faster time to market with decreased development costs. No external components are required. The devices embed both 32KHz crystals and DC-DC converter inductors into a 6.0mm x 6.3mm size.

Features

BLE 5.4, IEEE 802.15.4-2006 transceiver
- Complete RF solution with integrated antenna
  - BLE: 2Mbps, 1Mbps (-98dBm sensitivity), 500kbps, 125kbps (-106dBm sensitivity)
  - IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250kbps (-102dBm sensitivity)
  - Proprietary - 4Mbps, 2Mbps, 1Mbps
- Programmable TX power, -8dBm +8dBm
- AoA and AoD direction finding using BLE
- 128-bit AES/ECB/CCM/AAR co-processor (on-the-fly operation)
- 12.0mW TX current at 0dBm, 1Mbps, 1.8V V_DD
- 7.5mW RX current, 1Mbps, 1.8V V_DD
- RSSI, 1dB resolution
MCU
- Nordic nRF54L with Arm Cortex M33, 128MHz
- Flash/RAM of 1524KB/256KB
- 505 EEMAC CoreMark score running from non-volatile memory, 3.95 CoreMark per MHz
- Single precision floating point unit (FPU)
- Memory protection unit (MPU)
- Digital signal processing (DSP) instructions
- Data watchpoint and trace (DWT), embedded trace macrocell (ETM), instrumentation trace macrocell (ITM), and cross trigger interface (CTI)
- Serial Wire Debug (SWD)
- Trace port interface unit (TPIU), 4-bit parallel trace of ITM and ETM trace data; Serial wire output (SWO) trace of ITM data

Platform security
- Secure/non-secure memory protection
- Symmetric and asymmetric key crypto accelerator
- Secure key management
- Tamper detection
- Immutable boot partition
- Debug access port protection
- Two watchdog timers for secure and non-secure context
Peripherals
- Two real-time counters (RTC), and one global RTC (GRTC) that can run in System OFF mode and implement a shared system timer
- Seven 32-bit timers with counter mode
- Five fully featured serial interfaces with EasyDMA, supporting I²C, SPI controller/peripheral, and UART
- Three pulse width modulator (PWM) units with Easy DMA
- 12S two-channel inter-IC sound interface
- 14-bit at 20KS/s, 12-bit at 250KS/s, or 10-bit at 2MS/s ADC with up to eight programmable gain channels
- Near field communication (NFC)
- Two quadrature decoders (QDEC)
- 36 LGA pins
- 31 GPIOs
- Embedded inductors for a DC-DC converter
- 1 7V to 3.6V supply voltage with up to 2.6V I/O voltage
- -40°C to +105°C operation temperature

Specifications

BC15C
- Uses an nRF54L15 SoC
- Cortex-M33 MCU at 128MHz, 1524KB flash, 256KB RAM
- Integrated chip antenna
- 6.0mm x 11.0mm size
BC15E
- Uses an nRF54L15 SoC
- Cortex-M33 MCU at 128MHz, 1524KB flash, 256KB RAM
- An u.FL connector for external antenna
- 6.0mm x 10.5mm size

BC15M
- Uses an nRF54L15 SoC
- Cortex-M33 MCU at 128MHz, 1524KB flash, 256KB RAM
- Integrated PCB trace antenna
- 6.0mm x 9.6mm size
BC15P
- Uses an nRF54L15 SoC
- Cortex-M33 MCU at 128MHz, 1524KB flash, 256KB RAM
- Pads for external antenna connection
- 6.0mm x 6.3mm size