{"id":3435,"date":"2019-05-01T08:37:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2019-05-01T08:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T08:37:44","slug":"new-wafer-thin-nordic-nrf51-soc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/new-wafer-thin-nordic-nrf51-soc\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wafer Thin Nordic nRF51 SoC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nordic, the manufacturer of the System on a Chip (SoC) found in most beacons <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"has announced (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nordicsemi.com\/News\/2019\/04\/American-Semiconductor-employs-nRF51822-SoC-to-deliver-a-flexible-connectivity-solution\" target=\"_blank\">has announced<\/a> that an ultra thin version will be available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americansemi.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"American Semiconductor (opens in a new tab)\">American Semiconductor<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"AS_NRF51 Flex-BLE (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americansemi.com\/uploads\/1\/0\/8\/4\/108441507\/as_nrf51822_flex-ble_datasheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AS_NRF51 Flex-BLE<\/a> (pdf) is an ultra-thin version of Nordic\u2019s nRF51822 SoC wafer-level CSP (WL-CSP), employing American Semiconductor\u2019s \u2018FleX\u2122 Semiconductor-on-Polymer\u2122\u2019 (FleX SoP) process to reduce package size to approximately 35\u00b5m\u2014roughly half the thickness of a human hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/flex-ic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/flex-ic.jpg 323w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/flex-ic-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 85vw, 323px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest component of beacons and Bluetooth sensors is usually the battery rather than the SoC. However, the Flex-BLE version will be especially suited to energy harvested and solar solutions where it will be possible to create very thin beacons that can be invisibly manufactured into products or their packaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nordic, the manufacturer of the System on a Chip (SoC) found in most beacons has announced that an ultra thin version will be available from American Semiconductor. The AS_NRF51 Flex-BLE (pdf) is an ultra-thin version of Nordic\u2019s nRF51822 SoC wafer-level CSP (WL-CSP), employing American Semiconductor\u2019s \u2018FleX\u2122 Semiconductor-on-Polymer\u2122\u2019 (FleX SoP) process to reduce package size to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/new-wafer-thin-nordic-nrf51-soc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Wafer Thin Nordic nRF51 SoC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,41,90,71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}