JN5179/001K

ZigBee and IEEE802.15.4 Wireless Microcontroller with 512KB Flash, 32KB RAM

Overview

The JN5179 device is an ultra-low-power, high-performance wireless microcontroller, optimized as a platform for ZigBee 3.0 applications in Smart Home and Smart Lighting networks. It features an ARM Cortex-M3 processor with debug and programmable clock speeds. The JN5179 device has 512 kB of embedded Flash memory as well as 32 kB of RAM and 4 kB of EEPROM. The embedded Flash can support "Over-The-Air" firmware updates. The device also includes a 2.4 GHz "IEEE802.15.4 compliant" transceiver and a comprehensive mix of on-chip analog and digital peripherals.

The radio transmit power is configurable up to +10 dBm output. The very-low receive operating current down to 12.7 mA in normal operation and 0.6 µA in sleep mode results in long battery life, allowing operation directly from a coin cell. Through its power-saving modes, the device is therefore ideal for battery-powered nodes. The on-chip peripherals include a fail-safe I2C-bus, SPI-bus ports both master and slave and a 6-channel analog-to-digital converter, directly supporting a wide range of applications without the need for extra hardware.

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## Features

### Benefits

* Very low current solution for long battery life: over 10 years

* Very low receive current for low standby power of ‘receiver always on’ nodes

* Integrated power amplifier for long range and robust communication

* Large embedded Flash memory to enable Over-The-Air OTA firmware updates without external Flash memory

* Single-chip device to run communication stack and application

* Supports multiple network stacks

* Peripherals customized for lighting applications

* System BOM is low in component count and cost

* Flexible sensor interfacing

* Package

* 6 x 6 mm HVQFN40, 0.5 mm pitch

* lead-free and RoHS compliant

* Temperature range: -40 °C to +125 °C

### Radio Features

* 2.4 GHz IEEE802.15.4 compliant

* Receive current 14.8 mA, in low-power receive mode 12.7 mA

* Receiver sensitivity -96 dBm

* Configurable transmit power for reduced current consumption, for example:

* 10 dBm, 22.5 mA

* 8.5 dBm, 19.6 mA

* 3 dBm, 14mA

* Radio link budget 106 dB

* Maximum input level of +10 dBm

* Compensation for temperature drift of crystal oscillator frequency

* 2.0 V to 3.6 V battery operation

* Antenna diversity Auto RX

* Integrated ultra-low-power sleep oscillator 0.6 µA

* 100 nA deep sleep current with wake-up from external event

* 128-bit AES security processor

* MAC accelerator with packet formatting, CRCs, address check, auto-acks, timers

### Microcontroller Features

* ARM Cortex-M3 CPU with debug support

* 512kB Flash, 32kB RAM, 4kB EEPROM

* OTA firmware upgrade capability

* 32 MHz clock selectable down to 1 MHz for low-power operation

* Dual PAN ID support

* Fail-safe I2C-bus interface, operates as either master or slave

* 8 Timers 6 x PWM and 2 timer/counters

* 2 low-power sleep counters

* 2 UARTs, one with flow control

* SPI-bus master and slave port, 2 simultaneous selects

* Variable instruction width for high coding efficiency

* Multi-stage instruction pipeline

* Data EEPROM with guaranteed 100k write operations

* Supply voltage monitor with 8 programmable thresholds

* Battery voltage and temperature sensors

* 6-input 10-bit ADC

* Analog comparator

* Digital monitor for ADC

* Watchdog timer and POR

* Low-power modes controller

* Up to 18 Digital IO DIO and 2 digital outputs pins

## Features