Our application is a long-distance(>20m in the free space) video stream transmission on a drone. I've illustrated a simple block diagram please refer to attachment. Can you advise me the corresponding chipsI think Wi-Fi 4 is enough). Thank you.
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Our application is a long-distance(>20m in the free space) video stream transmission on a drone. I've illustrated a simple block diagram please refer to attachment. Can you advise me the corresponding chipsI think Wi-Fi 4 is enough). Thank you.
Hi Barkley,
Due to the higher throughput needed to stream video I would recommend you look into the WiLink devices.
https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/wl1837mod.pdf
https://www.ti.com/product/WL1837MOD
Kind Regards,
Rogelio
Hi Rogelio,
Does TI has more high output power(>20dBm will be better) and better receiver sensitivity chip? The output power of wl1837 is around 17dBm at 2.4GHz.
Can wl1837 handle with camera also? Or we need a CPU to deal with it? If so, could you recommenc a part for us?
Sincerely.
Barkley
Hi Barkley,
I would then look into the new CC3300 device. Its not officially out but coming very soon. It does have higher output power of +20dBm. It will need a host cpu (either Linux or MCU) which you can use for the camera interface. The SDK supports the AM355 and BeagleBoneBlack (for Linux). And the AM243 (for MCU).
https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/cc3300.pdf
https://www.ti.com/product/CC3300
Kind Regards,
Rogelio
Hi Barkley,
In the advanced datasheet we have a table of the receiver characteristics. You can request access by clicking the following on the product page
Once given access, you can find the data sheet in the secure resources tab of your profile.
The section in the data sheet you are looking for is 7.7 this will have the most relevant information we have on receiver sensitivity.
In regards to a MCU/CPU, the only ones that come integrated with the sdk are the ones as mentioned above, however, since our device is a transceiver that communicates with spi you could integrate with any mcu/cpu that has a spi/sdio and gpio capabilities, however the software porting would have to be done on your end. I would also like note that the CC33XX device does not support an external PA/LNA as you have on the pdf you shared.
Kind Regards,
Rogelio