Datasheet

NXP Semiconductors
88W8977
2.4 GHz/5 GHz Dual-band 1x1 Wi-Fi 4
®
and Bluetooth
®
5 Combo SoC
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Product short data sheet Rev. 1 — 13 July 2020
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3 Bluetooth subsystem
3.1 Bluetooth
• Bluetooth 5
• Bluetooth Class 2
• Bluetooth Class 1
• Single-ended, shared Tx/Rx path for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth
• Shared LNA for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth
• PCM interface for voice applications
• Baseband and radio BDR and EDR packet types—1 Mbps (GFSK), 2 Mbps ( /4-
DQPSK), and 3 Mbps (8DPSK)
• Fully functional Bluetooth baseband—AFH, forward error correction, header error
control, access code correlation, CRC, encryption bit stream generation, and whitening
• Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) using Packet Error Rate (PER)
• Interlaced scan for faster connection setup
• Simultaneous active ACL connection support
• Automatic ACL packet type selection
• Full master and slave piconet support
• Scatternet support
• Standard SDIO and UART HCI transport layer
• HCI layer to integrate with profile stack
• SCO/eSCO links with hardware accelerated audio signal processing and hardware
supported PPEC algorithm for speech quality improvement
• All standard SCO/eSCO voice coding
• All standard pairing, authentication, link key, and encryption operations
• Standard Bluetooth power saving mechanisms (i.e., hold, sniff modes, and sniff-
subrating)
• Enhanced Power Control (EPC)
• Channel Quality Driven Data Rate (CQDDR)
• Wideband Speech (WBS) support (1 WBS link)
• Encryption (AES) support
• LTE/MWS coexistence
3.2 Bluetooth Low Energy (LE)
• Broadcaster, observer, central, and peripheral roles
• Supports link layer topology to be master and slave (connects up to 16 links)
• Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Coexistence Arbiter (BCA) capability
• Shared RF with Bluetooth BDR/EDR
• Encryption (AES) support
• Intelligent Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH)
• Bluetooth LE Privacy 1.2
• Bluetooth LE Secure Connection
• Bluetooth LE Data Length Extension
• Bluetooth LE Advertising Extension
• Direction Finding—Connection-oriented Angle of Arrival (AoA)