User's Guide
SWRU359A – September 2013 – Revised October 2013
WL1835MODCOM8A WLAN MIMO and BT Module
Evaluation Board for TI Sitara™ Platform
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Introduction
The WL1835MODCOM8A device is a WiFi
®
MIMO,
Bluetooth
®
, and
Bluetooth
Low Energy (BLE) module
board with the TI WL1835MODGA module. WL1835MODGA is built-in TI WL1835 IEEE 802.11 b/g/n and
Bluetooth
4.0 solutions to provide the best WiFi and
Bluetooth
coexistence interoperability and power-
saving technologies from TI.
Figure 1. WL1835MODCOM8A Top View
1.1
Features
•
WLAN,
Bluetooth
, BLE on a module board
•
100-pin board card
•
Dimension 76.0 mm(L) x 31.0 mm(W)
•
WLAN 2.4 GHz SISO (20- and 40-MHz channels), 2.4-GHz MIMO (20-MHz channels)
•
Support for BLE dual mode
•
Seamless integration with TI Sitara and other application processors
•
Design for TI AM335X general-purpose EVM
•
WLAN and
Bluetooth
, BLE cores are software and hardware compatible with prior WL127x, WL128x
and CC256x offerings, for smooth migration to device.
•
Shared HCI transport for
Bluetooth
and BLE over UART and SDIO for WLAN.
•
WiFi /
Bluetooth
single antenna co-existence
•
Built-in chip antenna
•
Optional U.FL RF connector for external 2.4-GHz band antenna
•
Direct connection to battery using external switching mode power supply supporting 4.8-V to 2.9-V
operation
•
VIO in the 1.8-V domain
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WL1835MODCOM8A WLAN MIMO and BT Module Evaluation Board for TI
SWRU359A – September 2013 – Revised October 2013
Sitara™ Platform
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