RF/Wireless/Microwave-2024 World Electronics Achievement Awards-EE Times

Product：Ultra-low-receiving current Sub-1GHz Wireless Transceiver for IoT application - A7149

Recommended reasons： AMICCOM's RF IC products stand out in the market due to their excellent performance and high integration, widely used in various wireless communication fields. Key Features and Specifications: - Frequency Range: Supports 169MHz to 960MHz, covering various application bands. - High Sensitivity: With a receiving sensitivity of up to -120dBm, ensuring long-distance communication and stable data transmission. - Low Power Consumption: Extremely low power consumption, with an Rx current of 1.65mA@433MHz, the lowest in the industry, making it ideal for battery-powered IoT devices. - High Integration: Built-in 20dBm RF power amplifier, PLL, and digital baseband processor, simplifying design and reducing system costs. - Various Modulation Modes: Supports DSSS, FSK, 4FSK, GFSK, 4GFSK, OOK, ASK, GMSK and other modulation methods, flexibly meeting different application needs. - Data Rate: Ranges from 0.25kbps to 2Mbps, covering various speed requirements from low to high. AMICCOM's RF IC products are widely used in the following fields: - Smart Home: Smart locks, smart lighting control, smart sockets, etc. - Industrial Automation: Wireless sensor networks, equipment status monitoring, remote control systems. - Healthcare: Wireless health monitoring devices, remote patient monitoring. - Agricultural IoT: Smart irrigation systems, crop monitoring, livestock management. Key Advantages: 1. Superior Performance: High sensitivity and low power consumption design ensure excellent performance in various application scenarios. 2. High Integration: Built-in multiple functional modules simplify design and reduce system costs, enhancing the product's market competitiveness. 3. Strong Flexibility: Supports various modulation methods and a wide frequency range, adapting to various application needs. 4. Stable and Reliable: Advanced anti-interference technology ensures stable performance even in complex RF environments. Features Compared to Competitors: Compared to other RF IC products in the market, AMICCOM's RF IC products have significant advantages in sensitivity, power consumption, and integration. Especially in terms of low power consumption and high integration, AMICCOM's products excel in battery-powered IoT devices, extending device life and reducing maintenance costs. Additionally, the support for various modulation methods and wide application fields also make AMICCOM's products highly competitive in the market.

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Qorvo

Product：QPF4702 : 5 - 7 GHz Wi-Fi 7 Medium Power Non-linear Front End Module

Recommended reasons： Performance of Qorvo’s QPF4702 is focused on optimizing the PA efficiency for a supply voltage range that minimizes power consumption to allow for systems that use digital pre-distortion to achieve the highest linear output power and leading edge throughput for the RF chain. This is done across a extreme wide bandwidth enabling operation in all channels from UNII 1-8 (5.1 to 7.1 GHz). A multimode RX is provided to ensure high throughput is maintained across a covered distance. A coupler with RF output as well as a broadrange, constant slope voltage logarithmic power detector is provided for application feedback.

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Silicon Labs

Product：EFR32BG26(BG26) Bluetooth SoC and EFR32MG26(MG26) Multi-protocol SoC

Recommended reasons： Silicon Labs’ highest-performance Wireless SoCs - EFR32xG26 are designed to take on your most complex IoT applications that demand the very best available processing capabilities, energy efficiency, and wireless performance. The new family consists of the multiprotocol MG26 SoC, the Bluetooth LE BG26 SoCs, ideally suited for demanding smart home, smart city, and industrial use cases, this powerhouse family represents the most advanced general-purpose devices available. To enable greater intelligence for not only Matter-enabled applications, but all applications, the MG26 and BG26 also use Silicon Labs' proprietary Matrix Vector AI/ML hardware accelerator. This dedicated core is optimized for machine learning and can process ML operations up to 8x faster using as little as 1/6th the energy as a traditional embedded CPU. The dedicated AI/ML core integrated in BG26 & MG26 SoCs is significantly improving energy efficiency because the device can offload ML-based activation or wake cues to the accelerator, allowing more power-hungry functions to sleep and minimize battery drain. This is ideal for smart home battery-operated devices like sensors or switches, where consumers look for them to fade into the background of their home and not draw their attention with the need for constant battery changes. MG26 Multiprotocol SoC designed to be most advanced SoC for Matter over Thread. On the other hand, BG26, the newest high-performance, energy-efficient Bluetooth LE SoC is ideal for IoT wireless connectivity using Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth mesh.

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UNISOC (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd.

Product：UNISOC first 5G IoT-NTN satellite communication SoC V8821

Recommended reasons： UNISOC first 5G IoT-NTN satellite communication SoC V8821, is based on the 3GPP NTN R17 standard and leverages the IoT NTN network as its infrastructure, facilitating seamless integration with terrestrial core networks. By utilizing L-band maritime satellites and S-band Tiantong satellites, V8821 offers functionalities such as data transmission, text messaging, voice calls, and location sharing. It also supports expansion to access other high-orbit satellite systems, making it ideally suited for communication needs in areas with limited cellular network coverage, including oceans, urban fringes, remote mountainous regions, and more. V8821 supports the TCP/IP protocol, enabling compatibility with various upper-layer services and inheriting common IoT protocols for quick integration into existing data platforms. In terms of hardware configuration, V8821 flexibly supports customers in reusing hardware resources from existing solutions, enhancing deployment efficiency and avoiding issues like high hardware costs and lengthy timelines. UNISOC participated in and completed China's first 5G NTN mobile phone direct-to-satellite field validation. By adopting vivo's highly integrated RF antenna solution and a vivo satellite communication terminal prototype embedded with UNISOC's V8821 chip, the team achieved 5G NTN mobile phone direct-to-satellite uplink and downlink connections under the Tiantong satellite environment. This demonstration successfully enabled intercommunication between vivo phones, showcasing the transmission and reception of text messages via satellite communication, with functionality and performance meeting expectations. IoT based on satellite communication addresses pain points such as the inability to transmit information monitoring data in areas with no cellular communication signal coverage. UNISOC participated in and completed multiple field tests of IoT application scenarios based on Tiantong satellites in regions like Yanqing, Beijing, and Dianshan Lake, Suzhou. These scenarios included water surface buoys, satellite messengers, and satellite-terrestrial dual-mode trackers. By leveraging the satellite communication chip V8821 embedded in the terminals and Quectel's latest satellite communication module CC950U-LS, the collected sensor data, emergency messages, and terminal location data were successfully transmitted to cloud platforms in real-time via satellite, achieving satisfactory results.

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Chongqing WUQI Microelectronics Co., Ltd.

Product：2x2 dual-band high-performance Wi-Fi 6+BT Combo chip

Recommended reasons： Key features: Adopting WUQI-proprietary RF dual-band architecture and WUQI's original low-power CMOS PA technology, WQ9201 supports dual-band concurrency (DBDC) at 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz and provides the leading RF and baseband performance at extremely low power consumption, achieving high throughput and stable wireless transmission. Applications: This chip has been widely applied to products featuring in fast data transmission, such as smart phones, tablets, PCs, TVs, and set-top-boxes. Specifications: Highly-integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functions. WQ9201 conforms to Wi-Fi protocols of IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, is compatible with Bluetooth 5.4 protocol stack, as well as supports BT/BLE dual-mode and BLE audio. At the same time, the chip supports flexible Wi-Fi/BT coexistence. With self-developed RISC-V CPU, WQ9201 adopts WUQI-designed dual-frequency RF circuits, and is integrated with high-performance PA/LNA, supporting up to 80 MHz bandwidth, 1024QAM modulation mode, and a maximum PHY rate of 1.2 Gbps. WQ9201 supports OFDMA, 2x2 UL&DL MU-MIMO, and OFDMA+MU-MIMO, greatly increasing the number of terminals allowed for simultaneous access, effectively reducing communication delay, and improving access experience. WQ9201 supports DBDC at 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Taking advantages of WUQI-designed DBDC architecture, the chip supports high-performance concurrency modes of STA+AP, STA+P2P GO, and STA+P2P GC, improving user experience. Key Benefits: As a high-end data transmission 2x2 Wi-Fi + BT dual-mode chip, WQ9201 is on a par with chips of international first-tier manufacturers. Particularly, this chip is in a world-leading place in terms of power consumption performance, reducing PA power consumption by 30%~40% than mainstream products in markets.

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Nordic Semiconductor

Product：nRF54H20 ultra-low power SoC

Recommended reasons： nRF54H20 System-on-Chip (SoC) is a compact ultra-low power SoC with superior processing power, a generous amount of memory, and excellent efficiency. It has a new best-in-class multiprotocol radio and state-of-the-art security features. Superior processing power and a generous amount of memory nRF54H20 integrates multiple Arm Cortex-M33 processors and RISC-V coprocessors, clocked up to 320 MHz. Each processor is optimized for a specific type of workload. It has a generous amount of integrated memory with 2 MB of non-volatile memory and 1 MB of RAM, consuming significantly less power than external memory. The processing power and amount of memory make it perfect for running machine learning (ML) models and sensor fusion at the edge. World-leading processing efficiency nRF54H20 offers a unique combination of processing efficiency and performance. Processing efficiency of nRF54H20's application processor has been proven with the EEMBC ULPMark^®-CoreMark. The nRF54H20’s application processor achieved the following scores: ULPMark-CM score of 170 with 515 CoreMark (configured for maximum processing efficiency), and ULPMark-CM score of 132 with 1290 CoreMark (configured for maximum processing performance). New exciting digital and analog interfaces The SoC has several new exciting digital and analog interfaces, including a high-speed USB (480 Mbps), two I3C interfaces, a CAN FD controller, and a 14-bit ADC. This is in addition to numerous other analog and digital interfaces. Best-in-class multiprotocol radio with record-breaking rx sensitivity The new best-in-class multiprotocol radio is the first in the world to break the triple-digit barrier on RX sensitivity for 1 Mbps Bluetooth Low Energy, with -100 dBm. It also provides -104 dBm for 802.15.4 protocols. Combined with up to 10 dBm TX power, it offers improved robustness and longer range. nRF54H20 supports all Bluetooth 5.4 features and is designed to support upcoming Bluetooth specifications. It supports Bluetooth Low Energy, LE Audio, Bluetooth mesh, Thread, Matter, and more. State-of-the-art security nRF54H20 offers state-of-the-art security. It is designed for PSA Certified Level 3, the highest level in the PSA Certified IoT security standard. It supports security services such as Secure Boot, Secure Firmware Update, and Secure Storage. The cryptographic accelerators are hardened against side-channel attacks, while tamper sensors can detect an attack in progress and take appropriate action. Summary nRF54H20 is a compact all-in-one solution that can replace multiple components on the PCB, reducing design size. For example, an application MCU, an external flash, and a wireless SoC can be replaced with a single compact nRF54H20. In addition, its excellent energy efficiency enables smaller batteries to be used, further reducing both the design size and cost. Its unique combination of features, all integrated into a compact SoC, will enable developers to build innovative IoT products that haven't been possible before.

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Picocom

Product：PC805 RF Frontend SoC for Small Cell Basestation

Recommended reasons： In November 2023, Picocom announced a new, fully optimized PC805 system-on-chip (SoC) to help the industry further improve the performance of 5G small cell Open RAN radio units (O-RUs). Designing an O-RU with PC805 is greatly simplified and delivers a significantly reduced bill of materials compared to current designs. The PC805 is a highly integrated, small-footprint, and low-power SoC with a forward speed of up to 25Gbps. It is designed to simplify the design and production of 5G NR/LTE small cell O-RUs. PC805 can support both CPRI and eCPRI interfaces and the world's major 5G NR/LTE frequency bands, including China, further facilitating the deployment of small cell in various application scenarios, including enterprise, industrial, neutral host and private networks. The PC805 SoC is more powerful, aggregating four or more 4T4R carriers in a 200 MHz instantaneous bandwidth (IBW) for relevant frequency bands in multiple countries/regions. A single PC805 can also support multiple frequency bands, including both TDD and FDD for both 5G NR and LTE, with a cascade of two PC805 SoCs doubling the bandwidth supported.

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Telink Semiconductor（Shanghai） Co., Ltd.

Product：Telink TL721x（TLSR925x） Series SoC

Recommended reasons： TL721x（TLSR925x）series SoC is the latest generation of Telink's high-performance, low-power, multi-protocol, and highly integrated wireless connectivity chip family, which is capable of meeting the more stringent demands of future high-performance IoT end-products in terms of low carbon, convergence, security, and intelligence. This chip is the first multi-protocol IoT wireless SoC in China to realize an operating current as low as 1mA (actual test result), a milestone breakthrough among similar products in the market. Adhering to Telink's deep technical accumulation in multi-protocol convergence technology, the TL721x（TLSR925x） supports both Bluetooth@ LE and IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless communication technologies on a single chip and the latest versions of various upper-layer protocol standards. In addition, the chip supports advanced security features to help end products comply with the increasing security access requirements of global target markets. This chip is suitable for all kinds of high-performance IoT terminal applications, including smart home, smart medical, smart remote control, wearable devices, industrial sensing, location services, and so on.

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ACTIONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

Product：Low-latency high-quality wireless audio SoC ATS3031X

Recommended reasons： ATS3031X is Actions Technology’s new generation high-quality, low-latency, low-power wireless audio SoC. With audio specifications reaching up to 120dB and a noise floor below 2uV, it can be widely used in Bluetooth transceivers, wireless microphones, low-latency gaming headsets, and wireless cascading high-definition conference systems. Compared to mainstream wireless audio solutions on the market that typically use three or two chips, Actions ATS3031X is a truly high-integrated single-chip SoC solution. It integrates high-quality audio codec, ultra-low latency wireless transmission path, and ultra-wideband 32K dual-mic AI intelligent noise reduction, providing a high-quality audio experience while achieving stable low-latency wireless audio transmission, offering exceptional overall competitiveness. ATS3031X is based on Actions’ 2.4G proprietary protocol technology paired with a high-performance dual-core heterogeneous architecture. In the 2.4G proprietary protocol mode, the end-to-end link latency can be as low as 10ms, with a transmission distance of up to 300 meters, reaching industry-leading levels. It breakthroughly achieves high-quality audio long-distance transmission under ultra-low latency and supports Auracast audio broadcasting. The continuously optimized frequency hopping communication and anti-interference algorithms greatly enhance the stability of wireless transmission. Additionally, it features Actions’ latest 32K ultra-wideband high-fidelity and low-latency dual-mic AI noise reduction algorithm, with noise reduction latency as low as 3ms, reaching industry-leading levels and significantly improving audio quality. Its unique low-power design architecture reduces power consumption and improves battery life, providing an ultra-low power solution for portable products. It is one of the most competitive 2.4G+Bluetooth dual-mode wireless audio SoC chips in the industry. Actions Technology ATS3031X solution has already been adopted by many well-known brands in the industry, providing localized, fast, and timely technical support and services to customers. The end products have quickly entered mass production and have been widely praised by users.

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Beken Corporation

Product：Wi-Fi 6 MCU BK7236

Recommended reasons： The BK7236 is a highly integrated 1x1 single-band 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 6 (802.11b/g/n/ax) and Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) 5.4 combo solution designed for applications that require high security and abundant resources. The integration of a 32-bit Armv8-M STAR-MC1 MCU and a comprehensive set of peripherals makes the BK7236 ideal for advanced Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The BK7236 provides state-of-the-art security based on a powerful security architecture. The BK7236 integrates a IoT Platform Security Suite (IPSS) for cryptograph and system security control. The IPSS embeds all-round and robust security features to set up a top-secret execution environment for IoT devices. Using advanced design techniques and ultra-low power process technology, the BK7236 delivers high integration, efficient security, and minimal power consumption for a wide range of advanced IoT applications. The BK7236 takes the lead in having completed Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6^® testing of Wi-Fi Alliance, which becomes the world's first IoT chip supporting Wi-Fi 6. In addition, the BK7236 is also the world's first Wi-Fi 6 MCU product to receive PSA-L2 certification.

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SHEN ZHEN HOPE MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD

Product：Wireless RF Transceiver IC

Recommended reasons： The CMT2310A is an ultra-low power, high-performance, OOK, (G)FSK and 4(G)FSK, Win-SUN RF transceiver for a variety of 113 to 960 MHz wireless applications.The CMT2310A's high level of integration simplifies the peripheral materials required in system design. Up to +20dBm transmit power and -122dBm sensitivity optimize the link performance of the application. The CMT2310A supports multiple packet formats and codecs, making it flexible to meet the needs of various applications. In addition, the CMT2310A supports 128-byte Tx/Rx FIFO, rich GPIO and interrupt configurations, Dut y-Cycle operation mode, channel listening, high-precision RSSI, low-voltage detection, power-on reset, low-frequency clock output, fast frequency hopping, and squelch output, which makes the application design more flexible and realizes the product differentiation. Highly integrated, simplifying the peripheral materials required in system design;  Support a variety of packet formats and codecs, making it flexible to meet the needs of a variety of applications;  Support sending and receiving each independent 128-Byte FIFO (combined 256-Byte);  Rich GPIO and interrupt configuration;  Excellent low-power operation mode: SLP (Supper Low Power) and Duty-Cycle (Duty Cycle) combined operation mode;  Excellent CSMA (Channel Listening, Listen Before Speak, Active Retreat mechanism);  Supports high precision RSSI detection;  also supports fast frequency hopping, squelch output and other features; These above feature functions make the application design more flexible and can realize product differentiation design. Key Advantages:  The richest supported frequency bands in the Sub-1GHz frequency range;  Rich message structure compatibility, can support interoperability compatible with the mainstream competitors on the market;  Provide users with excellent low-power receiving mechanism by the combination of SLP+DutyCycle function inside the chip;  Provide users with CSMA listening and active avoidance mechanism realized by the chip, which can make the main control chip work more trouble-free;

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