Bluetooth Low Energy Range Extender

Bluetooth Low Energy Range Extender

Reference Designs

Dialog’s SmartBond™ Range Extender reference designs enable you to take full advantage of the output power of the Bluetooth low energy standard to extend the range of your applications.

By combining Dialog’s best-in-class Bluetooth low energy chip with Skyworks high-efficiency RF power amplifier front-end-module, Dialog’s range extender offers you optimal range without compromising on power consumption. The resulting solution also meets all Bluetooth low energy and regulatory requirements such as FCC and CE compliance.

DA14585/6 Range Extender
DA1468x Range Extender
(pin to pin compatible with the DA14683)
DA14585 + SKY66111 DA14681 + SKY66112
Maximized range
Up to +9.3 dBm Nominal Maximum Output Power Up to +13.5 dBm Nominal Maximum Output Power
Better than -91 dBm receive sensitivity
Better than -95.5 dBm receive sensitivity
> 100.3 dBm link budget > 109 dBm link budget
Power consumption
Tx <17 mA system peak @ 3 V @ +9.3 dBm Nominal Maximum Output Power
Tx <59 mA system peak
@ 3 V @ +13.5 dBm Nominal Maximum
Output Power

Smartbond™ family

Giving designers freedom to increase battery lifetimes, create smaller form factors than ever before, and reduce system cost.

Development Tools

Our SmartBond™ products are supported by development kits and our SmartSnippets™ Bluetooth software platform to help you while you easily develop and add your own custom profiles as needed.

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