Texas Instruments recently launched two development kits based on the CC2340R5 and the CC1314R10 wireless microcontrollers. These Launchpads support protocols such as Bluetooth 5 Low Energy, Sub-1 GHz, Wi-SUN, etc.

The Launchpad based on the CC2340R5 microcontroller provides support for protocols such as Bluetooth 5.3 Low Energy, Zigbee, SimpleLink TI 15.4 stack (Sub 1GHz) and support for Over-The-Air-Update (OTA).

• CC2340R5 – Arm Cortex-M0+ (up to 48MHz); 512kB Flash; 36kB SRAM; -102 dBm for BLE @125kbps; -96.5 dBm for BLE @1Mbps

 
RK3588S block diagram
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Some of the interfaces supported include 1x SPI, 1x I2C, 1x UART, 6x Analog pins, 1x 24-bit timer, 3x 16-bit timers, 1x ADC with 12x channel, 1x comparators and real time clock support. Additionally, the CC2340R5 chip integrates an AES 128-bit cryptographic accelerator, RNG and an on-chip buck DC/DC converter.

   
Indiedroid Nova top and bottom view
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The other LaunchPad is based on the CC1314R106 microcontroller supporting protocols such as IEEE 802.15.4g, Wi-SUN, Wireless M-Bus, MIOTY, Amazon Sidewalk, SimpleLink TI 15.4 stack (Sub 1GHz) and also it offers OTA support.

• CC1314R106 – Arm Cortex-M33 (up to 48MHz) w/ FPU and DSP; 1MB Flash; 256kB SRAM; 121 dBm @2.5kbps long-range mode; 10 dBm @50kbps, 802.15.4, 868MHz

Indiedroid Nova pinout
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The LP-EM-CC1314R10 LaunchPad provides access to 34x Digital pins, 8x Analog pins, 1x UART, 1x SPI, 1x I2C, RTC, etc. This development board also includes 4x 32-bit or 8x 16-bit timers, 12-bit SAR ADC (200ksps, 8-channels), 8-bit DAC.

Security features of the CC1314R10 chip include secure boot, secure key storage, Arm TrustZone, AES 128-bit/256-bit cryptographic accelerator, Public key accelerator, SHA2 accelerator and TRNG.