Nordic Semiconductor nRFready uBlue Smart Remote
The nRFready µBlue RF Smart Remote is a complete reference design for a multi-touch / QWERTY keyboard / 6-axis motion sensing Bluetooth® Smart remote control. It provides an ideal platform for developing advanced navigation remote controls for Connected TVs and set-top boxes, as well as multi-touch trackpads for computers.
The design is built upon the nRF8001 Bluetooth Smart connectivity IC in combination with the ultra-low power flash LPC1100 series ARM® Cortex™ M0 MCU from NXP Semiconductors. This design ensures excellent power performance together with the popular, industry proven ARM® Cortex™ microcontroller architecture. Our design features a multi-touch enabled trackpad from Synaptics that supports both pointing and clicking as well as a range of multi-touch gestures. 6-axis motion sensing is enabled using the highly integrated solution from Invensense that pack a 3-axis Gyro and 3-axis accelerometer together with an advanced motion-sensing processor to enable 'free-space' remote control designs.
An ultra-low power accelerometer from ST Microelectronics is used to intelligently detect inactivity and control power management ultra-efficiently and can additionally also be used for other features such as orientation detection.