Texas Instruments WL18xxMOD WiLink™ Single Band Combo Modules

Texas Instruments WL18xxMOD WiLink Single Band Combo Modules offer high throughput and extended range along with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth coexistence (WL1835MOD only) in a power-optimized design. The WL18xxMOD device is a single band 2.4GHz module solution with two antenna supporting Industrial temperature grade. The device is FCC, IC, ETSI/CE, and TELEC certified for AP and client. Texas Instruments offers drivers for high-level operating systems such as Linux®, Android™, WinCE, and RTOS.

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
- -20°C to +70°C operating temperature range
- 13.3mm × 13.4mm × 2mm small form factor
- 100-pin MOC package
- FCC, IC, ETSI/CE, and TELEC certified with chip antennas
Wi-Fi
- WLAN baseband processor and RF transceiver support of IEEE Std 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n
- 20MHz and 40MHz SISO and 20MHz 2 x 2 MIMO at 2.4GHz for high throughput: 80Mbps (TCP), 100Mbps (UDP)
- 2.4GHz MRC support for extended range
- Fully calibrated
- 4-Bit SDIO host interface support
- Wi-Fi® direct concurrent operation (multichannel, multirole)
BLUETOOTH® and BLE (WL183xMOD Only)
- Bluetooth 4.1 and CSA2 support
- Host Controller Interface (HCI) transport for Bluetooth over UART
- Dedicated audio processor support of SBC encoding + A2DP
- Dual-mode Bluetooth and BLE
- Bluetopia + LE certified stack provided by TI

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 1.4X the range versus a single antenna
- Different provisioning methods for in-home devices connectivity to Wi-Fi in one step
- Lowest Wi-Fi power consumption in connected idle (<800µA)
- Configurable wake on WLAN filters to only wake up the system
- Wi-Fi Bluetooth single antenna coexistence