Features CSR8670™ BGA

■ Bluetooth® v3.0 specification fully qualified

software
■ Bluetooth v4.0 specification compliant hardware Low-power Solution for
■ Radio includes integrated balun and RF DSP Intensive Audio Applications
performance of 10dBm transmit power and
-90dBm receive sensitivity
■ 80MHz RISC MCU and 80MIPS Kalimba DSP Production Information
■ 16Mb internal flash memory (64-bit wide, 45ns);
optional support for 64Mb of external SPI flash CSR8670
■ Stereo codec with 2 channels of ADC and up to 6
microphone inputs (includes bias generators and Issue 2
digital microphone support)
■ Support for latest CVC technology for narrow-
band and wideband voice connections
including wind noise reduction External
Serial Flash
■ Audio interfaces: I²S, PCM and SPDIF XTAL
Clock
Flash Memory

■ Serial interfaces: UART, USB 2.0 full-speed, Generation

UART/USB
master and slave bit-serialiser (I²C and SPI)

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RAM
■ Integrated dual switch-mode regulators, linear
2.4GHz PIO
regulators and battery charger BT_RF
Radio
Baseband I/O
■ 3 hardware LED controllers (for RGB) and ability +
Balun

to drive LCD segment display directly LED /PO

■ Support for up to 6 capacitive touch sensor inputs Audio In /Out

MCU
Capacitive
■ 6.5 x 6.5 x 1mm, 0.5mm pitch 112‑ball VFBGA Audio Sense
Interface
■ Green (RoHS compliant and no antimony or Kalimba
PCM/I2S/
halogenated flame retardants) SPDIF
DSP SPI/I2C

General Description Applications

CSR8670 consumer audio platform for wired and Home Entertainment Ecosystem
wireless applications integrates an ultra-low-power ■ TVs
DSP and application processor with embedded flash ■ Smart remote controllers
memory, a high-performance ■ Wired or wireless soundbars
stereo codec, a power management subsystem, LED ■ Wired or wireless speakers and headphones
and LCD drivers and capacitive touch sensor inputs in
Tablets / PCs / Mobile Connectivity
a SOC IC. The dual-core architecture with flash
memory enables manufacturers to easily differentiate ■ Wearable audio (on-the-go)
their products with new features without extending ■ Wearable audio with sensors (health and well-
development cycles. being applications)
BlueCore5-Multimedia® platform is software-portable
■ Wired or wireless stereo headphones for music/
to the CSR8670, with easy migration of a broad range gaming/multimedia content
of solutions from eXtension partners. This migration ■ Wired or wireless speakers
enables rapid time-to-market deployment of a broad ■ Wired or wireless speakerphones
range of consumer electronics products. ■ Mono headsets for voice
The audio codec supports 2 ADC channels, up to 6
The enhanced Kalimba DSP coprocessor with microphone inputs, stereo output and a variety of audio
80MIPS supports enhanced audio and DSP standards.
applications.

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Device Details
Bluetooth Radio Physical Interfaces
■ On-chip balun (50Ω impedance in TX and RX modes) ■ UART interface
■ No external trimming is required in production ■ USB 2.0 interface (full-speed)
■ Bluetooth v3.0 specification compliant ■ Master and slave bit-serialiser (I²C and SPI)
Bluetooth Transmitter ■ Up to 29 PIOs, i.e. 14 general purpose PIOs and unused
■ 10dBm RF transmit power with level control from on-chip digital interfaces are available as PIOs
6-bit DAC over a dynamic range >30dB ■ SPI debug and programming interface with read access
■ Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3 support without the need for disable locking
an external power amplifier or TX/RX switch ■ PCM, I²S and SPDIF interfaces
Bluetooth Receiver ■ Dual/quad external serial flash memory interface
■ Receiver sensitivity of -90dBm ■ 3 LED drivers (includes RGB) with PWM flasher on sleep
clock
■ Integrated channel filters
■ Support for up to 6 capacitive touch sensor inputs
■ Digital demodulator for improved sensitivity and co-
channel rejection Integrated Power Control and Regulation
■ Real-time digitised RSSI available to application ■ 2 high-efficiency switch-mode regulators with 1.8V and
■ Fast AGC for enhanced dynamic range 1.35V outputs from battery supply
■ Channel classification for AFH ■ 3.3V USB pad supply linear regulator
■ Low-voltage linear regulator for internal digital supply with

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Bluetooth Synthesiser
0.80V to 1.25V output
■ Fully integrated synthesiser requires no external VCO,
■ Low-voltage linear regulator for internal analogue supply
varactor diode, resonator or loop filter
with 1.35V output
■ Compatible with crystals 19.2MHz to 42MHz or an external
■ Power-on-reset detects low supply voltage
clock 19.2MHz to 42MHz
■ Power management includes digital shutdown and wake-
■ Accepts 19.2, 19.44, 19.68, 19.8 and 38.4MHz TCXO
up commands with an integrated low-power oscillator for
frequencies for GSM and CDMA devices with sinusoidal
ultra-low power Park/Sniff/Hold mode
or logic level signals
Battery Charger
Kalimba DSP
■ Lithium ion / Lithium polymer battery charger with instant-
■ Enhanced Kalimba DSP coprocessor, 80MIPS, 24‑bit
on
fixed point core
■ Fast charging support up to 200mA with no external
■ 2 single-cycle MACs; 24 x 24-bit multiply and 56-bit
components
accumulator
■ Higher charge currents using external pass device
■ 32-bit instruction word, dual 24-bit data memory
■ Supports USB charge enumeration
■ 12K x 32-bit program RAM including 1K instruction cache
■ Charger pre-calibrated
for executing out of internal flash
■ PSE compliance:
■ 32K x 24-bit + 32K x 24-bit 2-bank data RAM
■ Design to JIS-C 8712/8714 (batteries)
Audio Interfaces
■ Testing based on IEEE 1725
■ Audio codec with 2 high-quality dedicated ADCs
■ 2 microphone bias generators and up to 2 analogue Auxiliary Features
microphone inputs ■ Customer application space available
■ Up to 6 digital microphone (MEMS) inputs ■ Crystal oscillator with built-in digital trimming
■ G.722 compatible, includes improved digital FIR filter path ■ Clock request output to control external clock
for stop-band attenuation required for G.722 compliance ■ Auxiliary ADC and DAC available to applications
■ Enhanced side-tone gain control Package Option
■ Supported sample rates of 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 32, 44.1, ■ 6.5 x 6.5 x 1mm, 0.5mm pitch 112‑ball VFBGA
48 and 96kHz (DAC only)
Baseband and Software
■ 16Mb internal flash
■ Memory protection unit supporting accelerated VM
■ 56KB internal RAM, enables full-speed data transfer,
mixed voice/data and full piconet support
■ Logic for forward error correction, header error control,
access code correlation, CRC, demodulation, encryption
bit stream generation, whitening and transmit pulse
shaping
■ Transcoders for A-law, µ-law and linear voice via PCM and
A-law, µ-law and CVSD voice over air
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