BeagleBone TiWi-5E w/ EXT. Antenna

NOTE: This Cape has been discontinued

Descriptions
The BeagleBone TiWi-5E Cape w/ External Antenna is an add-on board that provides Wi-Fi capability for the BeagleBone. This cape is equipped with LSR TiWi-5E module that is capable of providing high performance 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n. The TiWi-5E chip use on this cape is based on the Texas Instrument WL1273L chipset. This cape uses an external antenna.

Note: Bluetooth for this cape is NOT supported in the latest Angstrom release for BeagleBone.

Note: Hardware incompatible and will damage BeagleBone Black if used together.

Revision A
Initial release of the BeagleBone TiWi-5E Cape w/ External Antenna

Software Support

 * BeagleBone TiWi-5E Cape w/ External Antenna revision A is supported by Angstrom release 03-27-13 onward.


 * Major BeagleBone image releases can be downloaded here.
 * Intermediate BeagleBone image releases can be downloaded here

Please follow the instructions here to write the image file to your SD card on a Windows machine.

Getting Started
Required Setup:
 * A BeagleBone TiWi-5E Cape w/ External Antenna
 * A BeagleBone (with supported software)
 * A 5V DC power supply (we recommend 5V - 2A)
 * A mini-USB cable

Following the instructions below to start using your BeagleBone TiWi-5E Cape w/ External Antenna:
 * 1) Mount the BeagleBone TiWi Cape to the BeagleBone
 * 2) Make sure the SD card using with BeagleBone has supported Angstrom image or later
 * 3) Plug in a 5V DC power supply to the DC connector on BeagleBone
 * 4) * Note: We recommend using a 5V - 2A supply. However, more current supply may be required if more capes or peripheral devices are connected.
 * 5) Connect the BeagleBone to your PC using mini-USB cable
 * 6) * Note: the mini-USB port on the cable should go to the mini-USB connector on the BeagleBone. The other end of the cable should go to PC
 * 7) Open a terminal program (e.g. TeraTerm) and connect to the corresponding COM port for BeagleBone
 * 8) Log in as root
 * 9) Now you can start using linux command for wireless device.
 * 10) Example: use following command to scan available networks
 * 11) * iw dev wlan0 scan
 * 12) * For more information please visit Wireless Kernel
 * 13) * Note: Latest Angstrom image for BeagleBone supports iw and nl80211

Signal Usage
The BeagleBone TiWi-BLE Cape w/ Chip Antenna uses 21 signals including:
 * VDD_3V3EXP
 * VDD_5V
 * I2C2_SCL
 * I2C2_SDA
 * UART1_TXD
 * UART1_RXD
 * UART2_TXD
 * UART2_RXD
 * CLKOUT2
 * GPIO1_7
 * GPIO1_2
 * GPIO1_12
 * GPIO1_15
 * GPIO1_27
 * GPIO1_31
 * GPIO1_30
 * GPIO1_4
 * GPIO1_1
 * GPIO1_0
 * GPIO1_29
 * GND

Vendors

 * BoardZoo (USA)
 * Digi-Key (USA)
 * Mouser (USA)
 * Farnell (UK)
 * TechShare (JP)

BeagleBone TiWi-5E Cape w/ External Antenna Revision A
To download all files at once please click here
 * Bill of Materials
 * Manufacturing Files
 * Schematic (PDF)
 * Schematic (Altium)