Data Sheet
Table Of Contents
- 1 Overview and Key Features
- 1.2 Application Areas
- Features and Benefits
- 2 Specifications
- 3 Hardware Specifications
- 3.1 Block Diagram and Pin-out
- 3.2 Pin Definitions
- 3.3 Electrical Specifications
- 4 Functional Description
- 4.1 Power Management (includes brown-out and power on reset)
- 4.2 Clocks and Timers
- 4.3 RF
- 4.4 UART Interface
- 4.5 SPI Bus
- 4.6 I2C Interface
- 4.7 General Purpose I/O, ADC and PWM/FREQ
- 4.8 nRESET Pin
- 4.9 nAutoRUN Pin
- 4.10 RM1xx VSP Service and Modes
- 4.11 Two-Wire SWD Programming/Debug Interface
- 4.12 RM1xx on-board chip antenna characteristics
- 5 Hardware Integration Suggestions
- 6 Mechanical Details
- 7 Application Note for Surface Mount Modules
- 8 FCC and IC Regulatory Statements
- 9 CE Regulatory
- 10 EU Declarations of Conformity
- 11 Ordering Information
- 12 Bluetooth SIG Qualification
RM1xx LoRa/BLE Modules
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2 SPECIFICATIONS
Table 1: Specifications
Categories Feature Implementation
LoRa Wireless
Specification
LoRa®
LoRaWAN 1.01 (End Device)
Frequency
902-928MHz
RM191
865-870 MHz
RM186
Maximum Transmit Power
Setting
15.5 dBm
RM191
13.5 dBm RM186
Minimum Transmit Power
Setting
1.5 dBm
Receive Sensitivity
-126 dBm
-134 dBm
RM191 (BW 500 kHz SF 12)
RM186 (BW 125kHz SF 12)
Range
Up to 15 km in free space
Raw Data Rates
(over the air)
250 bps – 50 kbps
RM186
980 bps – 21.9kbps
RM191
BLE Wireless
Specification
Bluetooth® (BLE)
V4.1 – Central OR Peripheral Mode
Frequency
2.402 - 2.480 GHz
Maximum Transmit Power
Setting
3 dBm (into -1.5 dBi chip antenna)
Minimum Transmit Power
Setting
-20 dBm (in four dB steps) with smartBASIC command
-16 dBm
-12 dBm
-8 dBm
-4 dBm
0 dBm
TX Whisper Mode 1
Transmit Power
-30 dBm (min.) with smartBASIC command
TX Whisper Mode 2 Transmit
Power
-55 dBm (min.) with smartBASIC command
Receive Sensitivity
(0.1% BER)
-91 dBm typical
Link Budget
95 dB (@ 1 Mbps)
Range
Up to 100 m in free space
TX Whisper Modes
Range reduction feature with TX Whisper modes with
smartBASIC command.
Range
(TX Whisper Mode 2)
<~30 cm
Raw Data Rates
1 Mbps (over the air)
Host Interface and
Peripherals
Total 14 x Multifunction I/O lines
UART TX, RX, CTS, RTS
DCD, RI, DTR, DSR, CTS, RTS (Note 1)
Default 115200, n, 8, 1
From 1,200 to 460800 bps
GPIO Up to 14
With configurable I/O direction, O/P drive strength