MediaTek has announced the MT2523 - This system-in-package (SiP) solution has been developed for active and fitness smart watches and is the first to offer GPS, dual-mode Bluetooth Low Energy, and a MIPI-supported high-resolution mobile screen. The MT2523 combines long battery life, high-quality display technology, and small chip size to provide for optimum user experience. The SiP’s printed circuit board area is 41 percent smaller than competitors’ solutions. Mediatek claims that this module boosts battery life of wearable devices by about a week, when compared to other modules.
MediaTek’s MT2523 product family is based around a highly integrated system in package (SiP) that contains a micro controller unit (MCU), dual-mode Bluetooth, GPS and a power management unit (PMU). The MCU enables wearable devices with lower power consumption and smaller form factors than Android Wear. The display component supports MIPI-DSI and serial interfaces, resulting in a high-resolution mobile screen. It includes 2D capabilities of true color, per pixel alpha channel and anti-aliasing fonts, plus 1-bit index color to save memory and computing power. MT2523’s low power comes from its ARM® Cortex®-M4 processor, which combines high-efficiency signal processing functionality with low power, low cost and ease-of-use benefits.
The SiP will be available to device makers in the first half of 2016.
