WiLink™ 8 industrial Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & Bluetooth Smart (Low energy) module
Product details
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Features
- General
- Integrates RF, Power Amplifiers (PAs), Clock, RF Switches, Filters, Passives, and Power Management
- Quick Hardware Design With TI Module Collateral and Reference Designs
- Operating Temperature: –20°C to +70°C
- Small Form Factor: 13.3 × 13.4 × 2 mm
- 100-Pin MOC Package
- FCC, IC, ETSI/CE, and TELEC Certified With PCB, Dipole, Chip, and PIFA Antennas
- Wi-Fi®
- WLAN Baseband Processor and RF Transceiver Support of IEEE Std 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n
- 20- and 40-MHz SISO and 20-MHz 2 × 2 MIMO at 2.4 GHz for High Throughput: 80 Mbps (TCP), 100 Mbps (UDP)
- 2.4-GHz MRC Support for Extended Range
- Fully Calibrated: Production Calibration Not Required
- 4-Bit SDIO Host Interface Support
- Wi-Fi Direct Concurrent Operation (Multichannel, Multirole)
- Bluetooth® and
Bluetooth low energy (WL183xMOD
Only)
- Bluetooth 4.2 Secure Connection Compliant and CSA2 Support (Declaration ID: D032799)
- Host Controller Interface (HCI) Transport for Bluetooth Over UART
- Dedicated Audio Processor Support of SBC Encoding + A2DP
- Dual-Mode Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy
- TI’s Bluetooth- and Bluetooth Low Energy-Certified Stack
- Key Benefits
- Reduces Design Overhead
- Differentiated Use Cases by Configuring WiLink™ 8 Simultaneously in Two Roles (STA and AP) to Connect Directly With Other Wi-Fi Devices on Different RF Channel (Wi-Fi Networks)
- Best-in-Class Wi-Fi With High-Performance Audio and Video Streaming Reference Applications With Up to 1.4× the Range Versus One Antenna
- Different Provisioning Methods for In-Home Devices Connectivity to Wi-Fi in One Step
- Lowest Wi-Fi Power Consumption in Connected Idle (< 800 µA)
- Configurable Wake on WLAN Filters to Only Wake Up the System
- Wi-Fi-Bluetooth Single Antenna Coexistence
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Description
The certified WiLink™ 8 module from TI offers high throughput and extended range along with Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® coexistence (WL1835MOD only) in a power-optimized design. The WL18x5MOD device is a 2.4-GHz module, two antenna solution. The device is FCC, IC, ETSI/CE, and TELEC certified for AP and client. TI offers drivers for high-level operating systems such as Linux®and Android™. Additional drivers, such as WinCE and RTOS, which includes QNX, Nucleus, ThreadX, and FreeRTOS, are supported through third parties.
Technical documentation
Design & development
For additional terms or required resources, click any title below to view the detail page where available.Hardware development
Description
TMDXEVM437XH is a high security evaluation module (EVM) that enables developers to evaluate secure boot functionality, including signing and encryption on high security AM437x devices.
This is a socketed EVM that includes an AM437x high security device and TI (...)
Features
- Hardware
- AM437x ARM Cortex-A9 Processor with Secure Boot
- 2GB DDR3
- TPS65218 Power management IC
- 7" capacitive touch screen LCD
- 2 camera modules
- On board NAND and eMMC memory
- Connector for Wilink8
- Software
- Processor SDK (Linux and TI-RTOS)
- Connectivity
- Gigabit Ethernet (1)
- UART (1)
- Micro SD/MMC (1)
- USB2.0 OTG/HOST (...)
Description
Features
Hardware
- AM3358 ARM Processor
- 1GB DDR3
- TPS65910 Power management IC
- 7” touch screen LCD
Software
- Processor SDK
Connectivity
- 10/100 Ethernet (1)
- UART (4)
- SD/MMC (2)
- USB2.0 OTG/HOST (1/1)
- Audio in/out
- JTAG
- CAN (2)
Description
The WiLink SDIO board is a SDMMC adapter board and is an easy to use connector between a WiLink COM8 Evaluation module [WL1837MODCOM8i and WL1835MODCOM8B] and a generic SD/MMC card slot on a host processor EVM. The adapter card enables the WiLink Wi-Fi module to operate over SDIO. It also provides (...)
Features
- Easy to connect WiLink8 modules to platforms over SDMMC
- 3v level-shifter to 1.8v IO
- BT and WiFi debug pins
Description
BeagleBone Black is a low-cost, open source, community-supported development platform for ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor developers and hobbyists. Boot Linux in under 10-seconds and get started on Sitara™ AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 processor development in less than 5 minutes with just a single USB cable.
(...)
Features
BeagleBone
- Example Applications: Robotics, motor drivers, Twitter printer, data backup, SDR base station, USB data acquisition and more
- Board size: 3.4" x 2.1"
- DDR memory: 512 MB
- Development environment: Fully functional terminal interface directly in the browser and the ability to run Python, Ruby (...)
Description
The WL1835MODCOM8 is one of the two evaluation boards for the TI WiLink 8 combo module family. For designs requiring performance in the 5 GHz band and extended temperature range, see the WL1837MODCOM8I.
The WL1835MODCOM8 Kit for Sitara EVMs easily enables customers to add (...)
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 Bluetooth & BLE dual mode
- Seamless integration with TI Sitara and other application processors
- Design for TI AM335X (...)
Description
The WL1837MODCOM8I, which is compatible with many processors including TI’s (...)
Features
- WLAN, Bluetooth 4.1, BLE on a module board
- 100-pin board card
- Dimension 76.0 mm(L) x 31.0 mm(W)
- WLAN 2.4 & 5 GHz SISO (20- and 40- MHz channels), 2.4 GHz MIMO (20-MHz channels)
- Support for Bluetooth & BLE dual mode
- Seamless integration with TI Sitara and other application processors
- Design for TI AM335x (...)
Software development
Features
The Android Development Kit from TI is a complete software offering developed and optimized for Sitara ARM® Cortexâ¢-A8 processors so developers can quickly get started on evaluating and developing on the Android OS. The kit provides a stable and fully tested software foundation that can be (...)
Linux Software Development Kits (SDK) provide Sitara™ developers with an easy set up and quick out-of-box experience that is specific to and highlights the features of TI's ARM processors. Launching demos, benchmarks and applications is a snap with the included graphical user (...)
Features
The Sitara Linux SDK features:
- Open Linux support
- GUI-based application launcher
- 3-D graphics support
- Example application with available source code
The Linux SDK includes the following components:
- Linux kernel and Bootloaders
- File system
- Qt/Webkit application framework
- Application launcher
- 3D graphics (...)
- WLAN Real-Time Tuning Tool (RTTT)
- Bluetooth® Logger
- WLAN gLogger
- Link Quality Monitor (LQM)
- HCITester Tool
- BTSout
- BTSTransform
- ScriptPad
The applications provide all of the capabilities required to debug and monitor WiLink™ WLAN/Bluetooth/Bluetooth low (...)
Features
- Network discovery capability over DHCP or MDNS
- Mesh visualization capabilities and data on each one of the nodes
- Path selection visualization
Features
- Dual mode Classic Bluetooth (BR/EDR) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Stack
- Bluetooth Core Specification v4.2
- Platform Manager Framework to enable multiple client applications to use the stack.
- User space applications and stack that do not require specific kernel modules.
- Compiled with Linaro GCC 4.7 (...)
Features
- Dual mode Classic Bluetooth (BR/EDR) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Stack
- Bluetooth Core Specification v4.0
- Platform Manager framework to enable multiple client applications to use the stack
- Integrated with TI Shared Transport driver (available from Linux 3.8)
- Plug-in for GStreamer (Open Source Audio (...)
The MCP package contains the install package, pre-compiled object and source of the proprietary Wi-Fi Driver - QNX, Nucleus, WinCE as well as ThreadX, FreeRTOS, µC, MQX ,RTX and uITRON RTOS baseline image to easily integrate the TI WiLink Wi-Fi drivers. The integration is supported through (...)
Features
- IEEE 802.11 a,b,g,n, 2X2 MIMO @ 2.4GHz and 5GHz
- Modes: STA, AP, P2P, WiFi Direct
- TP: 100Mbps UDP
- Security: WMM-PS, WMM-AC, WPA/2PSK, Ent,WPS,WPSv2
- SW Features :
- Multi Role Multi Channel : concurrent operation of 2 WLAN roles on a single device.
- Coex: with BT/BLE at 2.4GHz.
- DFS Master: radar detection at (...)
The NLCP package contains the install package, pre-compiled object and source of the TI Linux Open-Source Wi-Fi image to easily upgrade the default LINUX EZSDK release with the TI WiLink™ family NLCP Wi-Fi driver. The software is built with Linaro GCC 4.7 and can be added to Linux SDKs that use (...)
Features
- Linux open-source Wi-Fi package.
- Leverages the benefits of community-based development:
- Product of work done by tens of developers.
- Fast adaptation of new specifications and features.
- Contains a generic MAC-driver (chip independent), meaning it is developed and tested on many platforms in many (...)
The Bluetooth Service Pack is composed of the following four files:
- BTS file (TIInit_11.8.32.bts)
- ILI file (TIInit_11.8.32.ili)
- XML (TIInit_11.8.32.xml)
- Release Notes Document
- License Agreement
Note the version in the file name is unique for combination of hardware and firmware, but is not updated per (...)
Features
- Classic Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy
- Sleep Enabled
Design tools & simulation
- Step 1: Before requesting a review, it is important that to review the technical documentation and design & development resources available on the corresponding product page (see WL18xx product page links below).
- Step 2: Fill out the (...)
Features
- The WL18XX-REPORTS link provides access to WiLinik™ 8 certification reports for:
- WL18XX modules
- WL18XX Evaluation boards (note: reports for evaluation boards are for reference only)
- The WL18XX-REQUEST link provides:
- A TI letter of authorization for FCC and ISED when requested by the customer's regulatory (...)
Reference designs
The hardware design consists of DDR3L SDRAM (2x512MB), 64MB Serial NOR Flash, 8GB eMMC 5.0 iNAND, SD Card interface v3.0, 50 pin LCD Connector for external TFT display (...)
Design files
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download TIDA-050034 BOM.pdf (515KB) -
download TIDA-050034 Assembly Files.zip (547KB) -
download TIDA-050034 Layer Plots.zip (540KB) -
download TIDA-050034 CAD Files.zip (8958KB) -
download TIDA-050034 Gerber.zip (2330KB)
Design files
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download WiLink 8 Wi-Fi Bluetooth Smart Audio Multiroom Cape BOM.pdf (94KB) -
download WiLink 8 Wi-Fi Bluetooth Smart Audio Multiroom Cape Assembly Drawing.pdf (229KB) -
download WiLink 8 Wi-Fi Bluetooth Smart Audio Multiroom Cape PCB.pdf (2773KB) -
download WiLink 8 Wi-Fi Bluetooth Smart Audio Multiroom Cape CAD Files.zip (385KB) -
download WiLink 8 Wi-Fi Bluetooth Smart Audio Multiroom Cape Gerber.zip (395KB)
Design files
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download 2.4 GHz WiFi+Bluetooth Certified Antenna Design on WiLink 1835 Module BOM.pdf (222KB) -
download 2.4 GHz WiFi+Bluetooth Certified Antenna Design on WiLink 1835 Module Gerber.zip (134KB) -
download 2.4 GHz WiFi+Bluetooth Certified Antenna Design on WiLink 1835 Module Layer Plot.zip (380KB) -
download 2.4 GHz WiFi+BT Certified Antenna Design on WiLink 1835 Module PCB .asc Layout.zip (288KB) -
download 2.4 GHz WiFi+Bluetooth Certified Antenna Design on WiLink 1835 Module CAD Files (Rev. A).zip (49KB)
CAD/CAE symbols
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|---|---|---|
| QFM (MOC) | 100 | View options |
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