PAN1316C supports BLE and Bluetooth Classic in “RF-unfriendly conditions”
For applications with RF unfriendly housings, Panasonic Industry has introduced the dual-mode PAN1316C module which is an antenna-less variant of its PAN1326C2.
The dual-mode PAN1316C supports Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth Classic and is ready for the connection of an external antenna via bottom pin and is also equipped with the PAN1326C2’s host controlled interface (HCI) Bluetooth radio frequency (RF) module.
It has been designed to meet the needs of modern device housings to fulfil several criteria at the same time, namely being compact, rugged or waterproof although this might lead to radio waves hitting an impermeable housing structure. To address, this Panasonic Industry offers the PAN1316C “to circumvent a housing’s apparent RF unfriendliness”.
It module has a small footprint of 58.5mm² (9.0 x 6.5 x 1.8mm). It is equipped with the CC2564C Bluetooth core IC from Texas Instruments and is claimed to offer best-in-class performance – about twice the range of other Bluetooth Low Energy solutions.
In addition to a UART interface, the module contains an audio/voice codec interface which is a dedicated programmable serial port that provides the logic to interface to several kinds of PCM or I2S codecs. The module has a wide operating temperature range of -40 to +85 degrees C. The supply voltage range is 1.8 to 4.8V.
The PAN1316C is pin-compatible with previous generations of Texas Instruments-based Bluetooth HCI modules.
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