New BL651 Module Joins Laird's Growing Nordic Family of BLE 5 Solutions

Published on November 26, 2018

New BL651 Module Joins Laird's Growing Nordic Family of BLE 5 Solutions

We are excited to announce that the BL651 Series is now available for your design! The BL651 is the latest addition to our Nordic family of Bluetooth 5 offerings which provides the BLE 5 features you want and the flexibility to design your way. Building on the success of the BL652 and BL654 series, the BL651 is a cost-effective solution for simple Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) applications that provides all the capabilities of the Nordic nRF52810 silicon in a small, fully certified module.

Laird is at the forefront of developing Bluetooth solutions for a range of applications, delivering the latest feature enhancements of Bluetooth technology. We carefully design and tests our solutions to maximize the performance from Nordic Semiconductor silicon. The BL651 delivers the benefits of Bluetooth 5 in a small, fully certified module with simple soldering castellation for easy prototyping and mass production manufacturing. Designers can use the Nordic SDK and SoftDevice or Zephyr RTOS to build their BLE application. In addition, the BL651 Series is 100% PCB footprint drop in compatible with the BL652 Series of modules, allowing flexibility to upscale your designs if more flash/RAM or further feature sets are required during the design process.

Choosing Laird means having all the solutions, tools, and support you need to build you wireless design. With decades of experience in working with Bluetooth and multi generation BL65x developments using Nordic silicon, Laird is the ideal Bluetooth partner. OEMs and developers have the essential elements and support to accelerate wireless developments for many of the most challenging industrial settings and applications, ranging from IoT sensors to medical, wellness, and fitness devices to industrial sensor networks and more.

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