Energy harvesting reduces battery waste in IoT applications
Atmosic Technologies and Nichicon Corporation have announced a strategic partnership to provide customers with an energy harvesting solution for small form factor IoT devices.
Combining Small Lithium Titanate Rechargeable Battery (SLB) technology from Nichicon with the ATM33e series of wireless Bluetooth energy harvesting SoCs from Atmosic provides developers with a complete offering that is easy to integrate into wearables and other Bluetooth devices.
One major advantage of the ATM33e is the SoC’s extremely low power consumption. When the ATM33e is combined with SLB series devices, extended battery operation in a very small form factor is enabled. Additionally, SLB series devices can connect directly to Atmosic’s SoC and be recharged from harvested energy sources without the need for a separate power management unit (PMU). This energy-efficient and highly integrated design reduces Bill-of-Materials (BoM) cost and saves valuable space so developers can create compact designs.
“Atmosic’s ATM33e is one of the most powerful and power-efficient Bluetooth 5.3 SoCs on the market. Our customers can use this complete solution to design cost-effective and sustainable IoT devices,” said Paul Davis, VP of Product Management at Atmosic.
“Nichicon is deeply committed to reducing the tech industry’s impact on the environment, including the growing problem of battery waste,” said Craig Anderson, President at Nichicon America. “Our partnership with Atmosic marks another milestone in creating a more sustainable IoT for generations to come.”
SLB rechargeable batteries support a high number of charge and discharge cycles ( around 25K cycles), low-temperature operation, and superior power density when compared with typical rechargeable batteries. They can easily be charged from various energy harvesting sources, making them particularly well suited to consumer, commercial, and industrial IoT applications. Additionally, by utilizing Lithium Titanium Oxide, SLB devices have superior safety characteristics including the ability to resist combustion from punctures and other forms of damage.
In space constrained applications, the Atmosic ATM33e is available in an ultra-small chip-scale package (CSP). For traditional applications, the ATM33e is also available in 5- x 5-mm and 7- x 7-mm QFN packages. The ATM33e includes an integrated Arm® Cortex®-M33F microcontroller with up to 1536 MB of non-volatile memory, and 128 KB of RAM.
www.atmosic.com
www.nichiconbattery.com
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