Smart Wearable devices are the newest trend in the market. It started off with smart watches that brought the convenience of a smartphone to your wrists. Further, the smart watches got smarter and were packed with new intuitive features that let them do more than just managing your smartphone. The latest smart wearables can manage your health and keep a tab on your diet, fitness regime, calorie counts, step counts, your pulse rate and more such things. So, in order to develop these portable devices further, MediaTek has contributed with two new System on Chips (SoC) that are specifically targeted towards the emerging health, fitness and wearables market in India.
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With an aim to target fitness & healthcare sector in India, MediaTek India has introduced the MT2511 and the MT2523 SoC. The MT5211 is MediaTek’s first bio-sensing analog front-end (AFE) chip designed for health and fitness devices whereas the MT2523 is designed for active and fitness smartwatches. The MT2523 also happens to the world’s first system-in-package (SiP) to offer GPS, dual-mode Bluetooth Low Energy, and a MIPI-supported high-resolution mobile screen.
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With these two chipsets, MediaTek wants to set a footprint in India’s health and fitness market for wearable technology. End products powered by MT2511 and MT2523 are expected to be introduced in the India market by early 2017.
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The specifications and features for the SoCs as stated by the company are given below:
MediaTek MT2511
- Power efficient chipset
- Built-in Exclusive heart beat interval technology and 4KB SRAM that optimizes the overall system power consumption for sleep heart rate monitoring.
- The devices embedded with this technology can access bio signal acquisition through electrocardiography (ECG) and photoplethysmography (PPG) simultaneously.
- Designed on a LED boost driver circuit for saving layout space thereby delivering a complete system-in-package (SiP) for wearables with GPS, dual-mode Bluetooth LE, support for high-resolution screens and a highly-efficient ARM Cortex®-M4 CPU
MediaTek MT2523
- Ideal for the active and fitness smartwatch producers
- Consists of microcontroller unit (PMU) which is an ARM Cortex-M4F CPU due to which it helps deliver high-efficiency signal processing functionality at low power and low cost with ease-of-use benefits.
- Embedded with a GPS, dual-mode Bluetooth, and MIPI-supported high-resolution mobile screen
- Circuit board area boasts 41 percent smaller than competitors’ solutions
- In comparison to other wearables, devices powered by the MT2523 can last more than a week on one battery charge.
On the launch, Kuldeep Malik, Country Head – Corporate Sales International, MediaTek India expressed that the company has always focused on combining power with efficiency and is leading the charge in bringing this know-how to IoT products in India. He further added that with the MT2523 and MT2511 SoCs, MediaTek aims to broaden the scope of wearable segment in India to also cover health-related applications and deliver a variety of devices like fitness trackers, active lifestyle smart watches, sports and fitness bands.