ON Semiconductor Offers AirFuel-Ready Development Kit for Wearables Makers

ON Semiconductor bowed a development kit to help wearables makers develop differentiated products, while shortening time to market and lowering engineering costs, the company announced Tuesday. The WDK1.0 incorporates a DC-DC converter for power management, battery charger IC, fuel gauge and 10-watt wireless charging front-end controller based on the AirFuel wireless charging specification. Wireless connectivity is provided by an ultra-low power, multi-protocol SoC from Nordic Semiconductor combining a 32-bit ARM Cortex processor core and a 2.4 GHz transceiver supporting Bluetooth Low Energy and other wireless technologies, it said. A compatible app is available at Google Play and Apple’s App Store.