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Bluetooth Low Energy Long Range module for sale?

Tomas Rosa
Prodigy 40 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TIDC-BLUETOOTH-LOW-ENERGY-LONG-RANGE, CC2541, CC2540

Hello,

does TI plan to make it possible to directly buy the assembled form of the module TIDC-BLUETOOTH-LOW-ENERGY-LONG-RANGE?

I would like to evaluate the performance of this design (we have a simple lab for simple RF measurements), before I possibly place an order to our HW development vendor to try to integrate this module into our application. Unfortunately, I cannot ask that company to build just 2 or 3 such modules and for a higher amount of them I simply do not have a budget :-(

Thank you in advance for your help or advice :-)

Kind regards,

Tom

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    TI__Guru** 105180 points

    Hello,


    That module is not available for sale, but you can download the design files & provide to your CM. An alternative solution may be the BLE121LR module from BlueGiga: www.bluegiga.com/.../ble121lr-bluetooth-smart-long


    Best wishes

  • 0 in reply to JXS
    Prodigy 40 points
    Hello,
    thank you very much for the quick reply.

    Just one clarification: As the BLE121LR is apparently based on CC2541, is it possible to use the SW modules and development tools from TI with it? I mean to use BlueGiga's dev board "DKBLE", but stay with the toolchain and libs from TI. In their presentation, BlueGiga even mentioned an integrated CC debugger, so maybe, under certain reasonable effort...?

    Kind regards,
    Tom
  • 0 in reply to Tomas Rosa
    Guru 735455 points
    Since it is based on CC254x, it is no problem to use TI BLE stack and development tool.
  • 0 in reply to YiKai Chen
    Prodigy 40 points

    Excellent ;-)

    As I am also searching for an affordable extended range sniffer (for security tests / demonstrations), I would like to also use the BLE121LR with your SmartRF Packet Sniffer. (of course, there is the awesome Ubertooth, but let's say this is a bit different sort of device) Now, the manual mentions only the CC2540 USB dongle is supported. On the other hand, the PC-part of this tool apparently supports other chips connected through the CC debugger. Is there a fw for CC2541 to work with the sniffer?

    Kind regards,

    Tom

  • 0 in reply to Tomas Rosa
    Guru 735455 points

    As I know, there is no specific sniffer FW for CC2541. However, there is a FW sniffer_fw_cc2540_uart.hex for SmartRF05EB with CC2540EM. I think this FW should be workable on CC2541 so you can try it. You can find sniffer_fw_cc2540_uart.hex under C:\Program Files (x86)\Texas Instruments\SmartRF Tools\Packet Sniffer\bin\general\firmware if you install TI Packet Sniffer.