TI WiLink™8 Wi-Fi®/Bluetooth®/Bluetooth Low Energy audio multi-room cape reference design
TIDC-WL1837MOD-AUDIO-MULTIROOM-CAPE
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Key Document
- WiLink 8 Wi-Fi Bluetooth Smart Audio Multiroom Cape Design Guide
(PDF 591 KB)
27 Oct 2015
Description
The TI WiLink™ 8 WL1837MOD ( https://www.ti.com/product/wl1837mod ) audio cape is wireless multi-room audio reference design used with BeagleBone Black (https://www.ti.com/tool/beaglebk featuring TI Sitara™ AM335x). The WiLink 8 device's WLAN capability to capture and register precise arrival time of the connected AP’s beacon is used to achieve ultra-precise synchronization between multiple connected audio devices. The WiLink 8 module (WL1837MOD) offers integrated Wi-Fi®/Bluetooth® /Bluetooth Low Energy solution featuring 2.4 GHz MIMO and antenna diversity on 5 GHz band. It offers best in class audio solution featuring multi-room, Airplay® receiver, full audio stack streaming, support for online music services and much more. This TI Design will enable customers to design their own audio boards with Wi-Fi/Bluetooth /Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity from our WiLink 8 module (WL1837MOD) and evaluate audio multi-room software on it.
The BeagleBone Wi-Fi Audio Cape extends a standard TI Sitara processor-based BeagleBone Black with WiLink 8 Wi-Fi /Bluetooth /Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity and an audio subsystem. The cape and relevant SDK are available at an additional cost from StreamUnlimited.
Features
- Ultra-precise audio multi-room synchronization (< 20μsecs) between multiple speakers/capes
- SDK supports rich set of online music services, UPnP, Airplay audio receiver, GStreamer, etc.
- Wi-Fi dual band support on 2.4 GHz band (featuring 2x2 MIMO) and antenna diversity on 5 GHz band
- Wi-Fi/Bluetooth (A2DP)/Bluethooth Low Energy co-ex and multi-role AP/station support
- Stereo ADC/DAC support
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