JN5164: ZigBee and IEEE802.15.4 wireless microcontroller with 160 kB Flash, 32 kB RAM

The JN5164 is an ultra low power, high performance wireless microcontroller supporting RF4CE and IEEE802.15.4 networking stacks to facilitate the development of Home Automation, Smart Lighting, remote control or wireless sensor applications. It features an enhanced 32-bit RISC processor with 160 kB embedded Flash, 32 kB RAM and 4 kB EEPROM memory, offering high coding efficiency through variable width instructions, a multi-stage instruction pipeline and low power operation with programmable clock speeds. It also includes a 2.4 GHz IEEE802.15.4 compliant transceiver and a comprehensive mix of analogue and digital peripherals. The best in class operating current of 15 mA, with a 0.6 μA sleep timer mode, gives excellent battery life allowing operation direct from a coin cell.

The peripherals support a wide range of applications. They include a 2-wire I2C, and SPI ports which can operate as either master or slave, a four channel ADC with battery and a temperature sensor. It can support a large switch matrix of up to 100 elements, or alternatively a 20 key capacitive touch pad.

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JN516x block diagram
Outline 3d SOT618-7

  • 2.4 GHz IEEE802.15.4 compliant
  • 128-bit AES security processor
  • MAC accelerator with packet formatting, CRCs, address check, auto-acks, timers
  • Integrated ultra low power sleep oscillator - 0.6 μA
  • 2.0 V to 3.6 V battery operation
  • Deep sleep current 0.12 μA (Wake-up from IO)
  • < $0.15 external component cost
  • RX current 17 mA , TX 15 mA
  • Receiver sensitivity -95 dBm
  • Transmit power 2.5 dBm
  • Time of Flight engine for ranging
  • Antenna Diversity (Auto RX)

  • 32-bit RISC CPU, 1 to 32 MHz clock speed
  • Variable instruction width for high coding efficiency
  • Multi-stage instruction pipeline
  • JN5161: 64kB/8kB/4kB (Flash/RAM/EEPROM)
  • JN5164: 160kB/32kB/4kB (Flash/RAM/EEPROM)
  • JN5168: 256kB/32kB/4kB (Flash/RAM/EEPROM)
  • Data EEPROM with guaranteed 100k write operations
  • RF4CE, ZigBee SE and ZigBee Light Link stacks
  • 2-wire I²C compatible serial interface. Can operate as either master or slave
  • 5 x PWM (4x timer & 1 timer/counter)
  • 2 low power sleep counters
  • 2 x UART
  • SPI Master & Slave port, 3 selects
  • Supply voltage monitor with 8 programmable thresholds
  • 4-input 10-bit ADC, comparator
  • Battery and temperature sensors
  • Watchdog & Brown Out Reset
  • Up to 20 Digital IO Pins (DIO)
  • Infra-red remote control transmitter
  • Temperature range (-40 °C to +125 °C) 6 x 6 mm 40-lead
  • Lead-free and RoHS compliant

Data Sheets (1)
Name/DescriptionModified Date
IEEE802.15.4 Wireless Microcontroller (REV 1.3) PDF (977.0 kB) JN516X19 Jun 2013
Users Guides (1)
Name/DescriptionModified Date
JN516x-EK001 Evaluation Kit User Guide (REV 1.5) PDF (1.5 MB) JN-UG-309317 Feb 2015
Brochures (2)
Name/DescriptionModified Date
JenNet-IP wireless network protocol (REV 1.0) PDF (855.0 kB) 7501739424 Apr 2013
JN516x wireless microcontrollers and modules (REV 2.0) PDF (635.0 kB) 7501737519 Apr 2013
Package Information (1)
Name/DescriptionModified Date
plastic thermal enhanced very thin quad flat package; no leads; 40 terminals (REV 1.2) PDF (228.0 kB) SOT618-721 Apr 2016
Packing (1)
Name/DescriptionModified Date
HVQFN40; Reel dry pack, SMD, 13" Q1/T1 standard product orientation Orderable part number ending ,518 or... (REV 2.0) PDF (203.0 kB) SOT618-7_51810 Apr 2015
Ordering Information
ProductStatusPackage nameDemoboardProduct category
JN5164/A01Active
JN5164/001Active
Package Information
Product IDPackage DescriptionOutline VersionReflow/Wave SolderingPackingProduct StatusPart NumberOrdering code(12NC)MarkingChemical ContentRoHS / Pb Free / RHFLeadFree Conversion DateMSLMSL LF
JN5164/001SOT618-7Reel 13" Q1/T1 in DrypackActiveJN5164/001,518 (9352 978 12518)Standard MarkingJN5164/001Always Pb-free33
Reel 7" Q1/T1 in DrypackActiveJN5164/001,515 (9352 978 12515)Standard MarkingJN5164/001Always Pb-free33
JN5164/A01SOT618-7Reel 13" Q1/T1 in DrypackActiveJN5164/A01Y (9353 024 35518)Standard MarkingJN5164/A01Always Pb-free33
IEEE802.15.4 Wireless Microcontroller jn5168
JN516x-EK001 Evaluation Kit User Guide jn5168
JenNet-IP wireless network protocol jn5168
JN516x wireless microcontrollers and modules jn5168-001-m06
SOT618-7 jn5169
Reel 13" Q1/T1 in Drypack jn5169
JN516X