Product development - Bluetooth Classic + BLE?

Shashank Revankar

Hi,

I am developing a product (hardware + software) in which I need to have Classic Bluetooth & Bluetooth Low Energy Support. I am currently looking for evaluation modules / development kits that will be useful to me. In this context I have few questions.

1) I have ez430-RF256x EVM which I ordered from TI in June 2011. It has MindTree's stack on it with v2.1 support. Now I read somewhere that hardware architecture for classic Bluetooth & BLE is same. So is there a BLE + v 2.1 stack that can work on my EVM?

2) If answer to (1) is NO, then which of the following kits can I use?
PAN1323EMK - http://www.ti.com/tool/pan1323emk

EZ430-RF256x - http://www.ti.com/tool/ez430-rf256x (recent changes show CC2560A that supports BLE?)

3) For developing a prototype, which of these would work for me?
PAN1315, PAN1325, PAN1317 or PAN1327PAN1315, PAN1325, PAN1317 or PAN1327?

Thanks

over 14 years ago

0 Zahid Haq over 14 years ago

TI__Mastermind 25035 points

1. No, V2.1 does not support BLE

2. The PAN1323EMK ,http://www.ti.com/tool/pan1323emk, should be able to run out-of-the box BLE software package. The EZ430-RF256 will also work, http://www.ti.com/tool/ez430-rf256x, but it will not run out-of-the box with our Bluetopia BT stack(it will have to be ported to this architecture).

3. For prototyping, use the PAN1326/PAN1316 for dual mode BT4.0 + BLE.

Hope this answers your questions,

0 Shashank Revankar over 14 years ago in reply to Zahid Haq

Intellectual 845 points

Thank you Zahidul,

You answered all my questions.

Regards

Shashank

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Product development - Bluetooth Classic + BLE?