User Guide

User's Guide

SWRU359A–September 2013–Revised October 2013

WL1835MODCOM8A WLAN MIMO and BT Module

Evaluation Board for TI Sitara™ Platform

1 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

WL1835MODCOM8A WLAN MIMO and BT Module Evaluation Board for TI SWRU359A–September 2013–Revised October 2013

Sitara™ Platform

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