Wireless connectivity design & development

Design your product with our innovative and affordable wireless solutions

Your go-to resource and overview of designing with TI wireless connectivity devices. Easily evaluate our hardware and software offerings in the TI Developer Zone. Engage with our engineers and partners during the design process and receive rapid support.
Wireless connectivity design & development

TI Developer Zone

Access and download all the development tools, software, and training you need to easily develop, debug, and analyze code in the cloud or on your desktop.

Find everything in one place with TI Developer Zone. Easily access software, examples, training and development tools. Start evaluation and development online without installing gigabytes of software.

Access exactly what you need with content and tools tailored to the device or development board being used.

Launch

Central hub for latest software libraries, examples, and documentation

Resource Explorer is a web-based tool for quickly browsing and accessing necessary software and documentation. In conjunction with CCS Cloud, it allows users to run examples and demonstrations on evaluation hardware without the need to download and install local software.

Launch
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Easy-to-use, hands-on training modules for all devices

SimpleLink Academy contains several demos and documentation for all wireless connectivity TI LaunchPad™ development kits. Each module walks through examples step by step within our software development kits (SDKs) in order to demonstrate the device's capabilities.

Topics range from examples of wireless connection and real-time operating system (RTOS) basics to multiprotocol operation and advanced device features to suit your application needs.

Simplify hardware and software configuration

SysConfig provides an intuitive graphical user interface for configuring pins, peripherals, radios, software stacks, RTOS, and other components. SysConfig will automatically detect, expose and resolve conflicts to speed software development.

It is available as part of Code Composer Studio software, as a stand-alone application, or as a cloud-based application.

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Hardware

Explore our broad portfolio of cost-optimized solutions addressing your wireless connectivity needs.

Add wireless connectivity to your product with minimal design effort using our pre-certified modules

Enable a faster time to market by integrating external components into a single module and utilizing the TI wireless certification. Internalizing the surrounding passives simplifies your manufacturing supply chain and design effort. Each module is certified with key regulatory bodies around the world, eliminating the need for expensive RF equipment, engineering, and investment.

A low-cost, modular and open-source hardware ecosystem to evaluate TI devices quickly without investing a lot of resources

TI LaunchPad development kits are designed to allow you to easily program and debug with plug-and-play functionality. Test the full range of features in our scalable portfolio using hardware that complies to regulatory requirements. Our development kits are designed to work seamlessly both online and offline to help you get your products to market faster.

See a list of some of our hardware development tools from the LaunchPad ecosystem below.

Work with our experts

The SimpleLink hardware design review process provides a way to get in touch, one-on-one, with a subject matter expert that can help review your design and provide valuable feedback. Follow a simple three-step process for requesting a review.

Hardware development tools

Sub-1 GHz, Wi-SUN, Amazon Sidewalk and multiprotocol

Development kit
CC1312R7 LaunchPad™ development kit for SimpleLink™ multi-standard wireless MCU

This LaunchPad™ development kit is used to speed development with the SimpleLink™ Sub-1 GHz CC1312R7 wireless MCU. Software support is provided by the SIMPLELINK-LOWPOWER-SDK software development kit.

Development kit
CC1312R LaunchPad™ development kit for sub-1-GHz SimpleLink™ wireless MCU
This LaunchPad™ development kit speeds development on devices with integrated power amplifier and multi-band radio support for concurrent Sub-1Ghz operations. Protocols supported include Sub-1 GHz, 802.15.4, and proprietary RF with the compatible CC13x2-CC26x2 SDK. Available variations feature (...)

Bluetooth® Low Energy, Matter, Thread and Zigbee®

Evaluation board
CC2340R5 LaunchPad™ development kit for SimpleLink™ Bluetooth® 5.3 Low Energy MCU

This LaunchPad development kit is used to speed up development with the SimpleLink Bluetooth Low Energy MCU with support for Bluetooth 5 Low Energy (LE), and 2.4-GHz proprietary protocols. Software support is provided by the SimpleLink Low Power F3 software development kit (SDK).

Development kit
CC2652RB LaunchPad™ development kit for BAW multi-protocol 2.4-GHz SimpleLink™ wireless MCU

This LaunchPad™ is used to get started with the SimpleLink™ crystal-less BAW CC2652RB multiprotocol wireless MCU with support for Bluetooth®, Zigbee®, and Thread. Software support is provided by the CC13X2-CC26X2 software development kit (SDK).

Evaluation board
CC2652R7 LaunchPad™ development kit for SimpleLink™ multi-standard wireless MCU

This LaunchPad™ is used to speed development with the SimpleLink™ Multi-Standard CC2652R7 wireless MCU with support for Bluetooth®, Zigbee® and Thread.  Software support is provided by the SIMPLELINK-LOWPOWER-SDK software development kit.

Wi-Fi® and Matter

Development kit
CC3235S dual-band LaunchPad™ development kit for Wi-Fi® SimpleLink™ MCU

The SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi® CC3235S dual band LaunchPad™ development kit (LAUNCHXL-CC3235S) highlights CC3235S, a single-chip security solution and wireless microcontroller (MCU) which integrates a user application dedicated ARM® cortex®-M4 MCU and a network processor that runs (...)

Evaluation board
SimpleLink™ CC3301 Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth® Low Energy BoosterPack™ plug-in module

The SimpleLink™ CC3301 Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth® Low Energy devices enable affordable, reliable and secure connectivity in embedded applications with a processor host running Linux® or an MCU host running RTOS. The CC3301 BoosterPack™ plug-in module (BP-CC3301) is a test and (...)

Software

SimpleLink SDKs provide a comprehensive and portable software package for the development of various wireless protocols.

The TI SimpleLink SDK supports a wide variety of Bluetooth profiles and roles with examples that serve as a starting point for your application. TI maintains the SDK consistently in order to remain compliant with and certified to the latest Bluetooth core specification.

Processor and MCU interoperability with TI software supports the latest Wi-Fi connectivity standards including Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax). Easily integrable into Linux® and RTOS-based systems, you can connect Internet of Things devices with confidence.

All sample applications in the SDK (HTTP, Message Queuing Telemetry Transport, Matter, provisioning) are supported by multiple IDEs (Code Composer Studio™ software and IAR Embedded Workbench) and operating systems (no OS, TI-RTOS, FreeRTOS).

The TI SimpleLink SDK enables wireless protocols such as Matter, TI 15.4-Stack, Wi-SUN, Amazon Sidewalk and proprietary protocols. Concurrent operation of dynamic multiprotocol supports Bluetooth Low Energy and TI 15.4, Zigbee or proprietary Sub-1 GHz.

Software development tools

Software development kit (SDK)
SimpleLink™ low power software development kits (SDKs)

The SimpleLink™ Low Power SDKs support the CC13xx, CC23xx and CC26xx family of products. Together, these SDKs provide comprehensive software packages for the development of Sub-1 GHz and 2.4 GHz applications including support for Bluetooth® Low Energy, Mesh, Zigbee®, Matter, Thread, 802.15.4-based, (...)

Software development kit (SDK)
SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi® CC32xx software development kit (SDK)

The SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi® CC32XX SDK contains drivers for the CC3220 and CC3235 programmable MCU and documentation needed to use the solution. It also contains the flash programmer, a command line tool for flashing software, configuring network and software parameters (SSID, access (...)

Driver or library
TI 15.4-Stack Gateway Linux Software Development Kit

The TI-15.4-Stack-Gateway-Linux Software Development Kit (SDK) provides a Linux software middleware for the TI 15.4-Stack companion solution. It includes a full Linux user-space software that runs on top of the TI Processor SDK for AM335x platform, which interfaces with the co-processor embedded (...)

IDE, configuration, compiler or debugger
Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment (IDE)

Code Composer Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for TI's microcontrollers and processors. It comprises a suite of tools used to develop and debug embedded applications.  Code Composer Studio is available for download across Windows®, Linux® and macOS® desktops. It can also (...)

IDE, configuration, compiler or debugger
System configuration tool

SysConfig is a configuration tool designed to simplify hardware and software configuration challenges to accelerate software development.

SysConfig is available as part of the Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment as well as a standalone application. Additionally SysConfig (...)

Code example or demo
SimpleLink Connect mobile app

The SimpleLink Connect mobile app is an example Bluetooth® Low Energy application for mobile devices that works with:

  • CC23XX devices running the SIMPLELINK-LOWPOWER-SDK
  • CC33xx devices attached to a host running the CC33XX-SOFTWARE

The app provides a baseline for users to quickly build their (...)

Educational resources

Resource
Resource
Wireless connectivity technology selection guide
Our Wireless Connectivity Technology Selection Guide will help you quickly and easily choose the correct protocol for your application based on range, frequency, throughput, network, and battery requirements.
E2E™ design support
E2E™ design support
Wireless connectivity design support
Our E2E forums are an engineer’s go-to source for help throughout every step of the design process. Our engineers answer your technical questions and share their knowledge to help you quickly solve your design issues.
Application note
Application note
How to Certify Your Bluetooth Product (Rev. L)
Our overview of the qualification and listing process will help bring your end product to the market. This document should be considered informative, with the actual standards body providing the normative requirements.
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Partner products & services

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