Texas Instruments is planning to demonstrate a coin cell powered Bluetooth transceiver based on the low energy open standard.
The demonstration at the Bluetooth low energy technology conference in Munich this week will be based on the firm's soon-to-be-announced CC2540 single-mode system-on-chip.
The aim of the Bluetooth low energy standard is to have a low power version of the wireless comms technology for sports and medical applications that operate for more than a year on a button cell battery without recharging.
The CC2540 single-mode Bluetooth low energy device features an MSP430 microcontroller and application peripherals in a 6x6mm package.
There is on-chip flash memory for firmware updates in the field and data can be stored on-chip.
There are also associated RF ICs, protocol stack, basic profile software and applications support.
CC2540 is expected to be sampling in early 2010.