Date: 06/03/2011

ISM band RF transceiver ICs featuring range beyond 10 km

Texas Instruments has unveiled narrowband RF transceiver chips featuring range beyond 10 km (137-dB link budget) and more than 60-dB adjacent channel rejection. The CC112x family operates in the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency bands at 169, 433, 868, 915 and 950 MHz. The CC112x is suggested for low-power wireless applications design in alarm and security, automatic meter reading, industrial monitoring and control, and home and building automation.

"By working closely with TI during the specification of the CC112x family, Radiocrafts will shortly launch the first complete module based on the CC112x with revolutionary RF narrowband performance and high output power in an extremely small form factor," said Peder Martin Evjen, CEO at Radiocrafts, a leading radio module manufacturer for wireless short-range applications.

The other key features of CC112x family include:

First fully-integrated RF transceiver targeting ETSI EN 300-220 Category 1 compliance provides >60-dB channel rejection in 12.5-kHz channels and >84-dB blocking at 2 MHz.
Low power: 3-mA Rx "sniff mode" allows systems to listen for RF packets using very low power consumption while maintaining full RF performance.
CC112x family development kit is available for fast development.

Package: 5-mm x 5-mm QFN-32 package
Availability: Sampling in second quarter 2011 and volume production in third quarter 2011