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Easy-to-Use Bluetooth Modules and SoCs


Adding Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) to your application can enhance your product’s capabilities and improve user experience. Unfortunately, working with wireless can be complex, costly and time-consuming.

If Bluetooth LE products were easier to use, you would feel confident about adding them to your application.

Our approach to wireless is simple—we remove as many barriers as possible so that you can focus on your design. This includes offering a robust selection of Bluetooth products and the supporting tools that help you move seamlessly from concept to prototype. Some of these tools include:

  • A large selection of easy-to-follow application examples
  • Mobile app source code for iOS® and Android™
  • Building block modules that walk you through creating a Bluetooth application

Why Choose Microchip for Bluetooth Products?


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Bluetooth Made Easy

When you choose one of our products, you get more than hardware. We also provide a comprehensive support including demos and design check services.

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Robust Performance

Our Bluetooth LE products are built to thrive in tough environments. They are temperature tolerant and provide stable RF performance regardless of the conditions.

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Interoperability

Unlike most of our competitors, we build our multi-protocol modules in-house, streamlining purchasing and support.

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Security

We continuously improve our firmware with additional features and functions while keeping your designs protected from the latest security threats.

Is Bluetooth Right for Your Project?


Bluetooth LE Benefits

To determine if Bluetooth is right for your application, consider the following benefits.

Wide Adoption

Every modern smartphone supports Bluetooth LE. If your application needs to connect to a phone, Bluetooth is the way to go. Example applications include smart home devices, garage door openers and smart sensors.

Range

Although most applications require a shorter range, Bluetooth LE can maintain connections up to around 200 meters. This makes it a good choice for IoT applications.

Maturity

Bluetooth is a mature and well-defined specification, which makes it relatively easy to implement. Building a Bluetooth application from scratch is easy with our building blocks, even if you have no experience with wireless development.

Bluetooth's combination of smartphone connectivity, range and ease of development makes it a popular choice for application designers.

Bluetooth LE Phone Interface and Applications Illustration

Demo and Evaluation Boards


Part Number: Quantity: Price per Unit (in USD): Total Amt:
EV79Y91A

The WBZ451HPE Curiosity board is an all-in-one development platform that you can use to evaluate WBZ451H high-power modules. 

EV25F14A

Use the RNBD451 Add-on Board to evaluate the performance of our RNBD451PE plug-and-play, Bluetooth LE modules.

EV65D15A

Use the RNBD350 Add-on Board to evaluate the performance of our RNBD350 plug-and-play, Bluetooth LE modules.

Design Resources


Smart Warehouse Demo

Smart Warehouse

This project showcases the potential of smart environments. Follow this example to build an end-to-end solution including a Thread gateway that connects various IoT devices to the cloud.

AIoT for Industry 4.0 Demo

AIoT Solutions for Industry 4.0

Harness the power of AI and IoT for industrial environments. The demo collects data via a mesh-based sensor network while controlling a robot arm and reporting data to the cloud.

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And Many More

Explore our growing library of application examples, documentation and videos available through MPLAB® Discover.

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Bluetooth for Beginners

Build your first Bluetooth application with building blocks, our step-by-step Bluetooth development guide. No wireless experience is required.

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MCPRT3 Radio Test Tool

Use this Windows®-based software to test your RF configuration during development, certification and production.

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Design Check Service

Our MicroCHECK design service is available at no charge to customers who have selected our wireless devices for their applications.

Mobile Apps


Most Bluetooth applications rely on a smartphone for interface functionality, so mobile apps have become an essential building block in these solutions. To reduce your application development time, we provide the Microchip Bluetooth Data (MBD) application and source code. Use as they are for rapid prototyping or build your own app using our source code as a starting point.

Prototype and Debug

The MBD app is a versatile tool that simplifies developing, testing and debugging Bluetooth LE applications. Its features such as data reading/writing, real-time visualization, Over-The-Air (OTA) firmware updates and detailed logging help ensure your Bluetooth application is working as intended and ready for deployment.

MBD App for Protoyping and Debugging

Build Your Own

Jumpstart your mobile app development using our free source code. These compressed packages include code that provides a foundational framework for developing Bluetooth LE mobile apps. Each package contains installers for Linux®, Mac and Windows® operating systems and includes detailed documentation.

Bluetooth Mobile App Source Code