2. System Overview
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Quick Facts
What?
The EFR32 Wireless Gecko is a highly integrated,
configurable and low power wireless System-on-
Chip (SoC) with a robust set of MCU and radio pe-
ripherals.
Why?
The radio enables support for zigbee, Thread, Blue-
tooth Low Energy (BLE) and proprietary protocols in
2.4 GHz and sub-GHz frequency bands while the
MCU system allows customized protocols and appli-
cations to run efficiently.
How?
Dynamic or fixed packet lengths, optional address
recognition, and flexible CRC and crypto schemes
makes the EFR32 ideal for many low power wireless
IoT applications. High performance analog and digi-
tal peripherals allows complete applications to run
on the EFR32 SoC.
2.1 Introduction
The high level features of EFR32 include:
• High performance radio transceiver
• Dual-band operation
• Low power consumption in transmit, receive, and standby modes
• Excellent receiver performance, including sensitivity, selectivity and blocking
• Excellent transmitter performance, including programmable output power, low phase noise and PA ramping
• Ultra Low Energy RF Detection for wake-up from any Energy Mode, through RFSENSE
• Configurable protocol support, including standards and customer developed protocols
• Preamble and frame synchronization insertion in transmit and recovery in receive
• Flexible CRC support, including configurable polynomial and multiple CRCs for single data frames
• Basic address filtering performed in hardware
• High performance, low power MCU system
• High Performance 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 CPU
• Flexible and efficient energy management
• Complete set of digital peripherals
• Peripheral Reflex System (PRS)
• Precision analog interfaces
• Low external component count
• Fully integrated 2.4 GHz BALUN
• Integrated tunable crystal loading capacitors
A further introduction to the MCU and radio system is included in the following sections.
Note:
Detailed performance numbers, current consumption, pinout etc. is available in the device data sheet.
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