Dialog Semiconductor Drives Up IoT Adoption Via Its Advanced Wi-Fi SoC

Dialog Semiconductors PLC recently introduced the FC9000. It is one of the first Wi-Fi SoC from Dialog that came forth since its completed acquisition of Silicon Motion’s Mobile Communications product line.

Fig. 1: Promotional Image of FC9000

The new FC9000 keeps a tight focus on battery-powered IoT devices that include smart thermostats, wireless sensors, video monitoring systems as well as smart door locks. This new SoC also works on wireless sensors that enable direct connectivity with Wi-Fi networks while backing a battery power longevity much ahead then a single year.

Prior to this, all the devices running on Bluetooth, ZWave or Zigbee standards required pairing with a cumbersome and expensive smartphone or gateway for better cloud connectivity. This further added unnecessary costs and complexity to adoption of IoT. FC9000 is able to get over all such issues as the world moves to ubiquitous world of Wi-Fi.

Its proprietary power-saving algorithms establish a completely new threshold of power in industry. It paves way to work on work on with some microamps enhancing the overall battery life for all kind of end-devices. The biggest success registered by it with Venstar that is using it in its devices. Venstar is one of the premium energy management system and thermostat supplier globally.

Features

A distinct hardware accelerated encryption engine for increasing the pace of Wi-Fi encryption.
Support extended to higher level commercial grade secure encryption like TLS meant for allowing HTTPs, one of the latest benchmarks for web security.
Full offload system meant for Wi-Fi networking as well as the end device’s application code along with it.
It doesn’t need any external network microcontroller or processor but works well with microcontroller as per requirement.
The SDK in the device paves way for rapid design implementation with a generous scope for 1.6MB SRAM on-board memory.

In The Maker’s Words

Sean McGrath, the Senior VP and General Manager of Dialog Semiconductors Connectivity and Audio Business Group, adds, “The FC9000, the first product in our new VirtualZero™ product line, complements our existing portfolio of leading Bluetooth low energy SoC’s for connected devices and represents our next IoT connectivity innovation to pass on to our customers. This Wi-Fi device is the first in a series that we plan to launch which solves major pain points for both manufacturers and end-users around IoT network compatibility and power consumption.”