Bluetron™ Application Specific Module
BTR170

The Bluetron™ BTR170 module from AvantWave is a complete Bluetooth® solution for fast implementation, cutting your time-to-market. It is a short-range, compact and cost effective radio/baseband module that can be implemented in any kind of electronic devices, such as access point, telephone gateway, serial port adaptor etc.

In standard configuration the module includes a baseband processor with on board 8Mbit Flash memory, a radio front-end, antenna interface, supporting circuitry, together with some higher-level software protocols and applications such as L2CAP, SDP, GAP and RFCOMM are resided in the Flash.

The Bluetron™ BTR170 module is a power class 1 Bluetooth® devices, and is compliance with version 2.0 of the Bluetooth® specification. It is supplied with Bluetooth® protocol stack firmware which runs on the internal microprocessor. Bluetron™ BTR170 module is built on CSR BC04 External core with an 8Mbit Flash memory for firmware and application software storage.

Key Features

• A small and cost effective Bluetooth® System
• Bluetooth® specification v2.0 +EDR compliant
• Class 1, up to 100-meter range
• Complete 2.4GHz Bluetooth® System including:
  - Hardware: Radio, Baseband and Crystal & Memory
  - Standard Firmware: HCI or RFCOMM stack
• Power management: low power 1.8V operation for Bluetooth® core
• Compact size: 30.12 mm x 15.00 mm x 2.80 mm
• Support multiple connections
• Surface mount module for embedded applications
• Several firmware options
• Rewritable flash memory for easy upgrade route
• Custom firmware production available
  

Applications

• PDAs and other portable terminals
• Cable replacement between Bluetooth enabled devices
• Point-of-sales (POS) systems
• Telemetry and machine-to-machine devices
• Fitness and sports telemetry devices
• Industrial PCs and laptops
• Access Points
• Metering devices
• Home entertainment
• Digital cameras
• Dongles

Technical Data

• Bluetooth® Class 1 radio (up to 100 meters)
• Nominal output power 16 dBm
• Nominal sensitivity –91 dBm
• Uses 2.4 GHz ISM band
• Based on CSR BC04 External chipset
• Host processor interface with UART, USB
• SPI interface for firmware and parameter upgrades
• Power consumption:
  - Link active: 25 mA (Min.), 35 mA (Max.)
  - Link active in sniff mode: 128 mA
  - Link active in park mode: 80 mA
  - Idle with Deep Sleep mode: 15 µA
• Size: 30.12 mm(L) x 15.00 mm(W) x 2.80 mm (T)
• Operating temperature: -20^oC to +70^oC
• Metal shielding for avoiding RF interface
• Reference designs and antennas available for several architectures

• Bluetooth® v2.0 Firmware avaliable
• Possible to use a customized firmware

• Bluetooth® version 2.0

• Bluetron™ On-board Installation Kit (Firmware and parameters installation)
  

The BTR170 is based on the scalable Bluetron™ architecture. This configuration allows embedded stand-alone Bluetooth applications where your target application is embedded within the module, in addition to traditional host-based applications. This possibility is especially useful in accessory type applications like serial port and industrial sensor and actuator devices. The variety of external interfaces also make the BTR140 ideally suited for access applications in desk top and mobile computing environments, home base stations, and hot spot network access points.






Antenna Interface

50Ω Bluetooth ISM Band antenna (2.4-2.5 GHz)


Communication Interface

Communication is carried out using a wide range of external interfaces like high-speed UART, SPI, USB (Universal Serial Bus), I2C, PCM and PIO.


Software

The standard software includes Bluetooth protocol layers up to the HCI-layer, i.e. BB (BaseBand), LM (Link Manager) and HCI.

In addition, a variety of Bluetooth stacks for host- and embedded applications with different configuration could be offered. Please contact with our sales representatives at sales@avantwave.com or call us directly at 852-2648-9887







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