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nRF8001 Product Specification
Revision 1.2
4.1 Features
nRF8001 features
• Radio features
• Bluetooth low energy RF transceiver
• Ultra-low peak current consumption
<14 mA
• Common TX/RX terminals
• Low current for connection oriented
profiles, typically 2 A
• Ultra-low current for connectionless
oriented profiles, typically 500 nA
• Auxiliary features
• Integrated low frequency reference
oscillator
• Power management
• Battery monitor
• Temperature monitor
• DC/DC converter that reduces current by
up to 20% if enabled
• Integrated 16 MHz crystal oscillator
• OTP for customer configuration
• Interfaces
• UART Test Interface for Direct Test Mode
• Application Controller Interface (ACI)
• Radio Active signal
Bluetooth low energy features
• Bluetooth low energy stack
• All layers up to GATT included in
core software stack
• Link Layer Features
• Slave role
• Control PDUs in the slave role
• 27 byte MTU
•Encryption
•L2CAP
• 27 byte MTU
• Slave connection update
• Attribute Channel
• Security Channel
• General Access Profile (GAP) features
• Discoverable modes
• Dedicated bonding
• GAP attributes
• Attribute Protocol
• Mandatory client protocol
• Mandatory server protocol
• Security Manager
• Generation of keys for encryption
• Just works security
• Passkey entry
• Generic Attribute Profile (GATT)
• Mandatory client profile features
• Mandatory server profile features
• Direct Test Mode (DTM)
• DTM for RF qualification