nRFready Smart Remote 3 for nRF52 Series

Advanced highly featured Smart Remote reference design with unparalleled voice input and power performance.

The nRFready Smart Remote 3 for nRF52 Series is a complete Bluetooth® Low Energy enabled remote control reference design for today’s media centers including Smart TVs, set-top boxes (STB) and a wide range of media provision products available in the market today. This reference design offers best-in-class voice input features and performance with outstanding ultra-low power consumption.

Smart Remote 3 for nRF52 Series builds upon the features already available for the Smart Remote 3 for nRF51 Series such as free-space gesture support, multi-touch trackpad and button matrix but with far superior voice input capabilities. This reference design leverages the outstanding performance capabilities of the nRF52 Series and as such it has considerable scope for further features and modifications to complete an extremely advanced remote control product.

Voice input is supported by offering two digital mic inputs which support noise and echo cancellation as a part of this reference design. This allows for much ‘cleaner’ sampling of audio input which in turn allows for superior compression techniques resulting in fewer on-air data packets. A range of audio compression options are offered including OPUS, BroadVoice™ and ADPCM.

The reference design is an add-on that works together with the nRF52 Development Kit. An nRF52 DK is required to use this reference design but it is not included and must be purchased separately. The add-on contains all the external sensor devices that can interface with the nRF52 DK. Additionally, there is a complete product example remote control included in the kit which can be used directly for evaluation, testing, and demonstration.

All necessary firmware and Host software is provided to implement a full design at both ends of the application. The firmware runs on the nRF52 Series SoCs. Host software supports Linux.

We understand that remote control manufacturers may wish to use either all or a subset of the hardware and software features. This is supported in our design by modularizing hardware, firmware, and Host-side software.

Highlights:

Complete Bluetooth Low Energy advanced remote control reference design
Voice input support with echo/noise cancellation
Audio compression support using OPUS, BroadVoice™ and ADPCM
Multi-axis motion sensing
Multi-touch trackpad
Remote control keypad matrix
Ultra-low power wakeup accelerometer
Modular hardware and software architecture design
All firmware runs in nRF52 SoC
IR hardware support
Software debug module
Host-side software suite for Linux

Containing:

1 Development remote control with interface for the nRF52 Development Kit
1 x Complete product example remote control
1 x Bluetooth Low Energy dongle
4 x AA batteries

Product is also referred to as nRF6939.

Download nRFready Smart Remote 3 for nRF52 Series product brief [PDF]

nRF52 Development Kits

Overview

nRF52 DK

The nRF52 DK is a Bluetooth LE and Bluetooth mesh development kit for the nRF52805, nRF52810 and nRF52832 SoCs.

nRF52840 DK

The nRF52840 DK is a Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Zigbee development kit for the nRF52811 and nRF52840 SoCs.

nRF52840 Dongle

The nRF52840 Dongle is complementary hardware to the nRF Connect for Desktop. It supports Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Zigbee.

Utilizing

nRF52832 SoC

Versatile Bluetooth 5.4 SoC supporting Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh and NFC

64 MHz Cortex-M4 with FPU
512/256 KB Flash, 64/32 KB RAM
2.4 GHz transceiver
2 Mbps, 1 Mbps
Bluetooth Low Energy
Bluetooth mesh
+4 dBm TX power
128-bit AES
UART, SPI, TWI, PDM, I2S
PWM
12-bit ADC
NFC-A