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CC3551E
  • CC3551E

CC3551E

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SimpleLink™ wireless MCU with dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) Wi-Fi® 6 and Bluetooth® Low Energy

Texas Instruments CC3551E Product Info

1 April 2026 0

Parameters

Processor

Arm® Cortex®-M33

Type

Wireless MCU

Technology

Bluetooth® LE, Wi-Fi

Protocols

Qualified against Bluetooth® Core 5.4, Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz, Wi-Fi 5 GHz

Operating system

FreeRTOS

Certifications

Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Chip

Throughput UDP (max) (Mbps)

20

Features

2M PHY, 802.11ax, AP, COEX, Coded PHY, Extended advertising, LE Secure Connections, STA

Security

Cryptographic acceleration, Device attestation & anti-counterfeit, Hardware-enforced isolation, PSA level 1 and 2 ready, Secure boot, Secure communication, Secure debug, Secure firmware & software update, Secure storage

Rating

Catalog

Operating temperature range (°C)

-40 to 105

Cryptographic accelerators

RNG

Package

VQFN (RSH)-56-49 mm² 7 x 7

Features

Microcontroller

  • Powerful 160MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor with FPU, TrustZone, and AI acceleration
  • High-speed quad-SPI and octal-SPI for XiP flash with on-the-fly decryption
  • Flexible configuration of low-latency TCM (up to 32KB) and Cache (32KB or 64KB) for improved code execution performance
  • 1.1MB embedded SRAM including 128KB TCM for Wi-Fi™, Bluetooth Low Energy, networking, and application data

Peripherals

  • Up to 38 I/Os with flexible multiplexing options
  • 8 × general-purpose timers and pulse-width modulation (PWM)
  • 3 × universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART)
  • 2 × Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
  • 2 × inter-integrated circuit (I2C)
  • Inter-IC sound (I2S)
  • Pulse density modulation (PDM)
  • Secure digital and multimedia card (SD/MMC)
  • Secure digital input output (SDIO) 2.0
  • Controller area network (CAN) 2.0
  • 8-channel, 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC)

System Services

  • Direct memory access (DMA)
  • One-time-programmable memory (OTP)
  • Real-time clock (RTC) and watchdog timer (WDT)

Radio

  • Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)

    • 2.4GHz and 5GHz, single-stream 20MHz channels with application throughput up to 20Mbps (UDP)
    • Compatible with IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ax
      • Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA)
      • Target wake time (TWT)
      • Trigger frames
      • Basic service set (BSS) color
    • Integrated PA for a complete WLAN system with up to 20.5dBm output power at 1 DSSS
    • Role support: STA, softAP , Wi-Fi direct, multi-role AP + STA
    • Support for personal and enterprise Wi-Fi security: WPA and WPA2 PSK, WPA2 Enterprise, WPA3 personal or enterprise
    • Wi-Fi TX Power:
      • 20.5dBm at 1DSSS
      • 17.8dBm at 54OFDM
    • Wi-Fi RX Sensitivity:
      • –98.7dBm at 1DSSS
      • –76.6dBm at 54OFDM
  • Bluetooth low energy
    • Bluetooth low energy 5.4 certified stack
    • Supports long-range and high-speed PHYs (up to 2Mbps)

Security Features

  • ARM TrustZone
  • Hardware security module supporting all of the following:
    • ECC, RSA, AES, SHA2/3, MD5, CRC 16/32, and TRNG
    • Secure key storage
  • Initial secure programming
  • Secure boot
  • Software IP and cloning protection
  • Debug security through JTAG and debug port lock
  • OTP with the ability to program root-of-trust public key
  • Secure over-the-air (OTA) updates
  • Anti-rollback protection

Clock Source

  • Fast clock: 52MHz XTAL
  • Slow clock: Internal low-frequency oscillator, 32.768kHz XTAL, or external slow clock source

Power Management

  • Support for 3.3V and 1.8V on multiple I/O domains
  • Supplies: VPA: 3.3V, VMAIN: 1.8V, VIO: 1.8/3.3V

Key Benefits

  • Complete software development kit with open-source TCP/IP and TLS stacks
  • Operating temperature: –40°C to +105°C
  • Support for 3-wire PTA coexistence interface for use with external 2.4GHz radios (for example Thread or Zigbee)
  • Antenna selection capability

Package

  • Easy to design with 56-pin, 7mm × 7mm quad flat no leaded (QFN) package

Microcontroller

  • Powerful 160MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor with FPU, TrustZone, and AI acceleration
  • High-speed quad-SPI and octal-SPI for XiP flash with on-the-fly decryption
  • Flexible configuration of low-latency TCM (up to 32KB) and Cache (32KB or 64KB) for improved code execution performance
  • 1.1MB embedded SRAM including 128KB TCM for Wi-Fi™, Bluetooth Low Energy, networking, and application data

Peripherals

  • Up to 38 I/Os with flexible multiplexing options
  • 8 × general-purpose timers and pulse-width modulation (PWM)
  • 3 × universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART)
  • 2 × Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
  • 2 × inter-integrated circuit (I2C)
  • Inter-IC sound (I2S)
  • Pulse density modulation (PDM)
  • Secure digital and multimedia card (SD/MMC)
  • Secure digital input output (SDIO) 2.0
  • Controller area network (CAN) 2.0
  • 8-channel, 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC)

System Services

  • Direct memory access (DMA)
  • One-time-programmable memory (OTP)
  • Real-time clock (RTC) and watchdog timer (WDT)

Radio

  • Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)

    • 2.4GHz and 5GHz, single-stream 20MHz channels with application throughput up to 20Mbps (UDP)
    • Compatible with IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ax
      • Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA)
      • Target wake time (TWT)
      • Trigger frames
      • Basic service set (BSS) color
    • Integrated PA for a complete WLAN system with up to 20.5dBm output power at 1 DSSS
    • Role support: STA, softAP , Wi-Fi direct, multi-role AP + STA
    • Support for personal and enterprise Wi-Fi security: WPA and WPA2 PSK, WPA2 Enterprise, WPA3 personal or enterprise
    • Wi-Fi TX Power:
      • 20.5dBm at 1DSSS
      • 17.8dBm at 54OFDM
    • Wi-Fi RX Sensitivity:
      • –98.7dBm at 1DSSS
      • –76.6dBm at 54OFDM
  • Bluetooth low energy
    • Bluetooth low energy 5.4 certified stack
    • Supports long-range and high-speed PHYs (up to 2Mbps)

Security Features

  • ARM TrustZone
  • Hardware security module supporting all of the following:
    • ECC, RSA, AES, SHA2/3, MD5, CRC 16/32, and TRNG
    • Secure key storage
  • Initial secure programming
  • Secure boot
  • Software IP and cloning protection
  • Debug security through JTAG and debug port lock
  • OTP with the ability to program root-of-trust public key
  • Secure over-the-air (OTA) updates
  • Anti-rollback protection

Clock Source

  • Fast clock: 52MHz XTAL
  • Slow clock: Internal low-frequency oscillator, 32.768kHz XTAL, or external slow clock source

Power Management

  • Support for 3.3V and 1.8V on multiple I/O domains
  • Supplies: VPA: 3.3V, VMAIN: 1.8V, VIO: 1.8/3.3V

Key Benefits

  • Complete software development kit with open-source TCP/IP and TLS stacks
  • Operating temperature: –40°C to +105°C
  • Support for 3-wire PTA coexistence interface for use with external 2.4GHz radios (for example Thread or Zigbee)
  • Antenna selection capability

Package

  • Easy to design with 56-pin, 7mm × 7mm quad flat no leaded (QFN) package

Description

The SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi system-on-chip CC35xx family is where affordability meets reliability, enabling engineers to connect more applications with confidence. CC35xx are single-chip Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 wireless microcontrollers (MCUs). The CC3550E and CC3551E are the first dual-band devices in this pin-to-pin compatible family.

  • CC3550E: 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi 6 wireless MCU
  • CC3551E: 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth low energy 5.4 wireless MCU

The CC355xE offers the latest standards from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy while maintaining compatibility with Wi-Fi 4 (802.11 a/b/g/n)and Wi-Fi 5 (802.11 ac). These CC355xE are the 10th-generation connectivity combo chip from Texas Instruments. As such, the CC355xE is based on proven technology. These devices are an excellent choice to use in cost-sensitive embedded applications with RTOS software. CC355xE brings the efficiency of Wi-Fi 6 to embedded device applications for the Internet of Things (IoT), with a small PCB footprint and highly optimized bill of materials. Future device flavors will include in-package PSRAM for additional runtime memory, see the table below.

The SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi system-on-chip CC35xx family is where affordability meets reliability, enabling engineers to connect more applications with confidence. CC35xx are single-chip Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 wireless microcontrollers (MCUs). The CC3550E and CC3551E are the first dual-band devices in this pin-to-pin compatible family.

  • CC3550E: 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi 6 wireless MCU
  • CC3551E: 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth low energy 5.4 wireless MCU

The CC355xE offers the latest standards from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy while maintaining compatibility with Wi-Fi 4 (802.11 a/b/g/n)and Wi-Fi 5 (802.11 ac). These CC355xE are the 10th-generation connectivity combo chip from Texas Instruments. As such, the CC355xE is based on proven technology. These devices are an excellent choice to use in cost-sensitive embedded applications with RTOS software. CC355xE brings the efficiency of Wi-Fi 6 to embedded device applications for the Internet of Things (IoT), with a small PCB footprint and highly optimized bill of materials. Future device flavors will include in-package PSRAM for additional runtime memory, see the table below.

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