Wireless MCU with Integrated Tri-radio: 1x1 Wi-Fi® 6 + Bluetooth® Low Energy 5.4 / 802.15.4

RW612

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The RW612 is a highly integrated, low-power tri-radio wireless MCU with an integrated MCU and Wi-Fi® 6 + Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) 5.4 / 802.15.4 radios designed for a broad array of applications, including connected smart home devices, enterprise and industrial automation, smart accessories and smart energy.

The RW612 MCU subsystem includes a 260 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33 core with Trustzone™-M, 1.2 MB on-chip SRAM and a high-bandwidth Quad SPI interface with an on-the-fly decryption engine for securely accessing off-chip XIP flash.

The RW612 includes a full-featured 1x1 dual-band (2.4 GHz/5 GHz) 20 MHz Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) subsystem bringing higher throughput, better network efficiency, lower latency and improved range over previous generation Wi-Fi standards. The Bluetooth LE radio supports 2 Mbit/s high-speed data rate, long range and extended advertising. The on-chip 802.15.4 radio can support the latest Thread mesh networking protocol. In addition, the RW612 can support Matter over Wi-Fi or Matter over Thread offering a common, interoperable application layer across ecosystems and products.

EdgeLock® security technology is incorporated, offering secure boot, secure debug, secure firmware updates and secure life cycle management as well as hardware cryptography and physically unclonable function (PUF) for secure key management.

The advanced design of the RW612 delivers tight integration, low power and highly secure operation in a space- and cost-efficient wireless MCU requiring only a single 3.3 V power supply.

Wireless modules based on the NXP RW612 are offered by leading module manufacturers.

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Features

Wi-Fi 6 Radio

  • 1x1, 20 MHz, IEEE 802.11ax, 2.4 GHz/5 GHz
  • Target wake time, dual carrier modulation and extended range
  • Integrated Wi-Fi PA, LNA, and T/R switch, up to +21 dBm Tx power
  • WPA 3 security
  • Matter over Wi-Fi

Bluetooth Low Energy / 802.15.4 Radio

  • Supports Bluetooth 5.2 features
  • Bluetooth 5.4 certified
  • Bluetooth LE 2 Mbps high-speed mode, long range and advertising extensions
  • I2S and PCM audio interfaces
  • 802.15.4 supporting Thread
  • Matter over Thread
  • Integrated PA / LNA with up to +15 dBm Tx output

MCU

  • 260 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 with TrustZone-M
  • On-chip 1.2 MB PSRAM
  • Quad FlexSPI Flash XIP with on-the-fly decryption
  • PSRAM interface for memory expansion
  • Up to 5 Flexcomm (configurable as SPI/I2C/I2S/UART)
  • IEEE 1588 RMII/Fast Ethernet interface
  • LCD interface

Security

  • NXP EdgeLock™ Assurance program
  • Hardware root of trust
  • Trusted Execution Environment based on Arm TrustZone-M
  • NXP EdgeLock 2GO Trust Provisioning
  • Secure boot, debug and software update
  • Hardware cryptography
  • Physical unclonable function (PUF) secure key management

SDK, Tool-Kits and Middleware

  • MCUXpresso SDK
  • FreeRTOS open-source kernel and libraries
  • lwIP and mbedTLS security middleware
  • Integration with IAR
  • TF-M firmware support

Power Management

  • Ability to power the entire RW612 using a single 3.3 V external supply
  • Integrated Buck regulators and LDOs supplying internal power domains
  • Independent power modes across applications and radio subsystems
  • Individual subsystem wake-up through dedicated GPIO, IRQ and RTC
  • Low-leakage always-on power domain enabling fast wake-up

Part numbers include: RW612ET, RW612HN, RW612UK.

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    IRIS-W10

    Tri-radio wireless MCU module Dual-band Wi-Fi 6, BLE 5.3, Thread Powerful MCU for advanced applications Full set of security features Matter over Wi-Fi or Thread Antenna ...
    IRIS-W10 By u-blox AG Gold Partner

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