High-end wearable activity trackers can take step count, temperature, light and other movement and environment measurements. They are not only being used for fitness applications, but are becoming an essential part of medical device design. Our Ultra-Low-Power (ULP) Connected Wearable Activity Monitor Demonstration Board can be used as the starting point for the design of medical home monitoring, patient tracking and drug delivery compliance devices.
This board is a high-end activity tracker demonstration and development board that not only measures a user’s motion and environment, but it can also be used as a starting point for the design of more advanced activity and biometric measurement devices These types of devices measure and analyze sleep quality, heart rate, body temperature and blood oxygen levels. Bluetooth® connectivity allows the demo to communicate with tablets, smartphones or PCs for IoT capability.
Our ULP Connected Wearable Activity Monitor Demonstration board features the SAM L21high-performance, 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M0+ based microcontroller (MCU) with Ultra Low-Power technology, the BTLC1000 4.1 Bluetooth Low Energy Module, the ATECC508A CryptoAuthentication™ IC as well as movement and environmental sensor chips.
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Start with the free download of the user guide, schematics and 'C' source code that can easily be modified to your specific application needs.
This reference demo helps you develop a low-power, connected activity monitoring board with Bluetooth Low Energy capability for medical and fitness IoT applications.*
*Microchip medical reference designs and demos are intended for evaluation and development purposes only. Use of Microchip devices in life support and/or safety applications is entirely at the buyer's risk, and the buyer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Microchip from any and all damages, claims, suits, or expenses resulting from such use.
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Demonstration Highlights
Product Features
SAML21 MCU
- Ultra low-power, high-performance 32-bit Arm Cortex-M0+ based MCU
- Up to 256 KB of Flash and 40 KB of SRAM
- Up to 48 MHz operating frequency
- Up to 14-channels, 1 Msps 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
- Two 1 Msps 12-bit Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs)
- Three op amps
- Full-Speed USB device and embedded host
- 16-channel Direct Memory Access (DMA) and 12-channel Event system
- AES and true Random Number Generator (RNG)
- 32-bit Real-Time Clock (RTC)
- Support for up to 81 touch channels (mutual capacitance)
- 1.62 to 3.63V power supply
RN4871 Bluetooth Low Energy Module
- Bluetooth 5 certified
- Easy-to-use ASCII command interface for communication with the host microcontroller
- Module certified for use in USA, Canada, Brazil, Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China
- Mobile application supported in our Bluetooth Data (MBD)
- Remote configuration capability
- Ceramic chip antenna or external antenna connection
ATECC608A CryptoAuthentication IC
- Cryptographic co-processor with secure hardware-based key storage
- Protected storage for up to 16 keys, certificates or data
- FIPS SP800-56A Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH)
- NIST standard P256 elliptic curve support
- SHA-256 and HMAC hash including off-chip context save/restore
- AES-128 encryption/decryption, Galois Field Multiply for GCM
Additional Resources
Medical Video Channel
Ultra-Low-Power Connected Wearable Activity Monitor
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For more information, please visit:
https://www.microchip.com/en-us/solutions/medical
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