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CC2540 DK or mini DK ?

Osman Esen
Intellectual 740 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: CC2540, CC2541DK-MINI, CC3100, BLE-STACK, CC2650STK

Hi.

What is the actual difference between the CC2540 develop ment kit and mini development kit ?. Is it possible to integrate orther interfaces on the development kit like WiFi ?.

  • 0
    Guru 735455 points

    The CC2540 development kit provides a complete hardware performance test platform and generic software development environment for single-mode Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) applications. The kit includes two CC2540-based RF evaluation modules, one CC2540-based USB dongle, general purpose development boards (SmartRF05EB) for software and hardware prototyping, cables, antennas and documentation to get you up and running with the CC2540 quickly and easily.

    The CC2540 evaluation modules can be plugged into the SmartRF05EB boards, which are included in the development kit. The evaluation modules can be used as reference modules for prototyping and for verifying the performance of the CC2540 RF IC.

    SmartRF Studio and SmartRF Packet Sniffer can be used with the hardware in the kit for testing and debugging purposes. The evaluation boards has an in-circuit debug probe, so no additional hardware tools are required for debugging of software running on the CC2540.

    NOTE: TI’s CC2541DK-MINI is recommended for use instead of the CC2540DK-MINI since it provides the same functionality, but lower current consumption.

    The CC2540DK-MINI development kit provides a working reference design for software development of single-mode Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) applications based on the Texas Instruments CC2540. The included “keyfob” board operates as a BLE peripheral device, and contains modifiable software that can be tailored towards different applications. Using BTool (Windows PC application) along with the included CC2540 USB Dongle, the Texas Instruments CC2540 BLE stack can be tested and verified while developing custom applications.

    If you want to connect CC2540 with WIFI, CC3100 is a good one.

  • 0 in reply to YiKai Chen
    Intellectual 740 points

    Thank you for the response. 

    Since CC3100 only supports WiFi interface, is it somehow possible to build a BLE interface on it ?. 

  • 0 in reply to Osman Esen
    Guru 735455 points

    I mean you can connect CC2540 to CC3100 with SPI interface. In this way, you can have BLE+WiFi.

  • 0 in reply to YiKai Chen
    Prodigy 130 points
    I am looking for blue tooth chip set that can control peripherals via blue tooth. Will nee to do come software development on the cc2540. I believe a SKP comes with it.

    Looking at the explanation, it seems that the cc2540 DK has everything (nothing else required) and cc2540 needs the SmartRF05EB boards to do some development work. The cc2540 is included with both

    Ouestion: is there are other Hardware tools required for any of these, I would like to like to know (DK or Mini).

    If we get our project working (proto type), than we would just get the cc2540 chip set and machine solder on our PCB.
  • 0 in reply to Alejandro Orozco
    TI__Mastermind 33460 points
    Hi there,

    The MiniDK requires a CC debugger to load flash images on to the chips. www.ti.com/.../cc-debugger
    The DK includes a flash loader. When using the DK you may optionally want to purchase a USB to Serial cable to connect the serial port to a PC, this is not required.

    Regarding software development on the CC254x, yes we provide a BLE-Stack SDK with the device: www.ti.com/.../ble-stack
  • 0 in reply to Alejandro Orozco
    Guru 735455 points
    You can also refer to CC2650STK and CC-DEVPACK-DEBUGGER. CC26xx is more power efficiency than CC254x.