nRF7002 IC: Ultra-low Power, Dual-band Wi-Fi 6 Companion IC Provides Seamless Wi-Fi Connectivity and Wi-Fi Based Loactioning

Nordic Semiconductor has launched a new ultra-low power, dual-band Wi-Fi 6 companion IC nRF7002 that provides seamless Wi-Fi connectivity and Wi-Fi-based locationing (SSID sniffing of local Wi-Fi hubs) and is designed to be used alongside Nordic’s existing nRF52 and nRF53 Series Bluetooth Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), and nRF91 Series cellular IoT Systems-in-Package (SiPs). This new IC can be used in conjunction with non-Nordic host devices. 

With the nRF7002, Nordic Semiconductor brings decades of ultra-low-power wireless IoT and silicon design expertise to Wi-Fi 6, a standard that features efficiency gains that support long-life, battery-powered wireless IoT operation. Wi-Fi 6 will support all wireless protocols used in Matter, Bluetooth LE for commissioning, Thread for low power mesh, and Wi-Fi for high-throughput. 

Features

• 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz dual-band

• Low-power and secure Wi-Fi for the IoT

• Ideal coexistence with Bluetooth LE

• Supported in nRF Connect SDK

• Target Wake Time (TWT)

• SPI / QSPI

• Wi-Fi 6 Station (STA)

• Complies with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax

• 1 Spatial Stream (SS)

• 20 MHz channel bandwidth

• 64 QAM (MCS7), 86 Mbps PHY throughput

• OFDMA (Downlink and Uplink)

• BSS coloring

• Co-existence interfaces

Applications

• Wireless IoT applications

Availability

The nRF7002 IC is supplied in a 6 x 6mm QFN package and is sampling now.