Cypress Low-Power Bluetooth® MCUs Deliver Mesh Networking with Ubiquitous Smartphone Connectivity

NUREMBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EMBEDDED WORLD — Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY), the embedded solutions leader, today announced it is sampling two low-power, dual-mode Bluetooth® 5.0 and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) microcontrollers (MCUs) that include support for Bluetooth mesh networking for the Internet of Things (IoT). The new CYW20819 and CYW20820 MCUs each provide simultaneous Bluetooth 5.0 audio and BLE connections, delivering low-power wireless solutions that enable music and voice commands for battery-powered fitness bands, health monitoring devices, and voice remotes. Designers can also use the solutions to develop low-cost, low-power Bluetooth mesh network devices that can communicate with each other—and with smartphones, tablets and voice-controlled home assistants—via simple, ubiquitous, and hub-free Bluetooth connectivity.