With the acquisition of Chipcon, TI now provides you with industry leading ZigBee™-compliant solutions and a broad range of proprietary RF-ICs that enable innovative low-power wireless applications.
And, Chipcon’s software, development kits and reference designs will speed your time to market.
TI’s portfolio of high-performance analog and ultra-low-power MCUs combined with Chipcon’s low-power RF-ICs give you an immediate low-power RF offering and a strong roadmap for future integrated solutions.
In addition, Chipcon has included a powerful 5-channel DMA (direct memory access) controller that can handle data transfers between peripherals and memory without CPU intervention to avoid the traditional weakness of the 8051 core in moving data.
A significant advantage is reduced development time, as Chipcon provides a wide range of examples, libraries and tools to lessen the software development burden.
Chipcon will offer a ROM version of the CC2510 to high-volume customers, pricing for this will be approximately 30% lower than for the Flash version.