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New Product Announcement
Mouser Now Shipping RF Digital’s Simblee BLE Series
New IoT System Aims to Connect Everyone and Everything
March 22, 2016 – Mouser Electronics, Inc. is now shipping the highly anticipated Simblee™ Bluetooth®
Low Energy (BLE) module and development tools from RF Digital. The Simblee product line sets itself apart
by allowing device developers to embed mobile apps in devices themselves, passing interface information
over Bluetooth wireless technology to the Simblee for Mobile app on a mobile device. The Simblee module
integrates BLE functionality into embedded mobile apps using the Arduino integrated development
environment (IDE), helping designers to begin developing mobile apps and Internet of Things (IoT) networks
without first having to learn Xcode or Android software development kits (SDKs).
The RF Digital RFD77101 Simblee module, now available from Mouser Electronics, is a 2.4 GHz radio
transceiver with a built-in ARM® Cortex®-M0 microcontroller with 128kBytes of flash memory and 24 kBytes
of RAM and BLE stack. In addition to Bluetooth connectivity, the 10 × 7 × 2mm module features robust
physical connectivity, including 29 general-purpose inputs/outputs (GPIOs), six analog-to-digital converter
(ADC) inputs, four PWM outputs, two SPI busses, two I2C busses, and a UART interface. Designers can
mount the Simblee module directly on a circuit board to start creating products from scratch, or can
prototype new products using one of the RF Digital development tools.
The RFD77201 Simblee 7-pin RFduino adapter board plugs into RFduino shields for simple prototyping
and programming. RFD77201 enables designers to easily program the Simblee module through seven of
the module’s 29 GPIOs. The RFD77203 Simblee 29-Pin breakout board lets designers to access all of the
Simblee module’s 29 GPIOs with flexible pin configuration that allows every usable pin to act as digital I/O,
PWM, UART, SPI and I2C.
Mouser is also stocking three kits for working with the Simblee module and RFduino environment. The
RFD77801 Simblee Starter Kit contains the RFD77201 Simblee 7-pin adapter board, an RFduino USB
programming shield, and an RFduino RGB LED/button shield. The RFD77802 Simblee Project Kit helps
designers develop device-to-device communications with SimbleeCOM, a high-performance, low latency,
wireless professional protocol optimized for high-noise environments. The Project Kit includes two Simblee
29-pin breakout boards, two RFduino USB programming shields, two RFduino RGB LED/button shields, and
two 2×AAA battery shields. The RFD77803 Simblee Development Kit helps designers quickly build Simblee
prototypes, and includes 16 shields from the Simblee development environment, including one 7-pin adapter
board and two 29-pin breakout boards.
To learn more about the Simblee BLE development system, visit
http://www.mouser.com/new/rfdigital/rf-digital-simblee-ble/.
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With its broad product line and unsurpassed customer service, Mouser caters to design engineers and
buyers by delivering What’s Next in advanced technologies. Mouser offers customers 21 global support
locations and stocks the world’s widest selection of the latest semiconductors and electronic components for
the newest design projects. Mouser Electronics’ website is updated daily and searches more than 10 million
products to locate over 4 million orderable part numbers available for easy online purchase. Mouser.com
also houses an industry-first interactive catalog, data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application
notes, technical design information, and engineering tools.
About Mouser Electronics
Mouser Electronics, a subsidiary of TTI, Inc., is part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway family of
companies. Mouser is an award-winning, authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor,
focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies to electronic design engineers and
buyers. Mouser.com features more than 4 million products online from more than 500 manufacturers.
Mouser publishes multiple catalogs per year providing designers with up-to-date data on the components
now available for the next generation of electronic devices. Mouser ships globally to over 500,000 customers
in 170 countries from its 492,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas. For more information,
visit www.mouser.com.
About RF Digital
RF Digital manufactures an extensive line of fully integrated, low-cost, high-quality, high-performance,
configurable wireless RF transmitter, receiver, and transceiver Modules, suitable for nearly every type of
application.
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Further information, contact:
Kevin Hess, Mouser Electronics
Senior Vice President, Marketing
(817) 804-3833
Kevin.Hess@mouser.com
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Kelly DeGarmo, Mouser Electronics
Manager, Corporate Communications and Media Relations
(817) 804-7764
Kelly.DeGarmo@mouser.com