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BOOST™ Board

BOOST™ Core Bluetooth© Baseband processor evaluation kit. A low cost board available to BOOST™ licensees for development and evaluation requirements.

Features

Includes BOOST™ Core, pre-loaded in FPGA
Xilinx Virtex XC4VLX200 FPGA
ARM7 Microprocessor
RS232 com ports
Slave USB port
Audio jack for headphone and microphone
Motorola MC145483 PCM Codec-Filter
LCD screen 20 characters x 2 lines
Keypad: Connector for 16 keys matrixed keypad
JTAG Interface
Multiple radio interfaces, including:

Wipro-NewLogic BT 2.1+EDR RF test chip daughter board
3rd party BT 1.2 RF daughter board

Compact size

Wipro-NewLogic BOOST Board (43K)

General Description

This FPGA-based prototyping platform was developed in-house by Wipro-NewLogic to provide a platform for development and system validation. The BOOST™ Core is embedded on the Xilinx FPGA. The board can be used by Wipro-NewLogic customers to develop hardware or software modules to complement the BOOST™ Core or the BOOST™ Software. Connections are available on the board to connect to a logic analyser or other extension boards. More than 50% are available on the FPGA for additional use. A USB and serial ports are available for HCI interface or other purpose.

The BOOST™ Board, with the BOOST™ Core, BOOST™ Software, and Wipro-NewLogic Development application (NLDev), can be considered as a fully functional Bluetooth system.
With the BOOST™ Board a user who wishes to customize the BOOST™ Core to their needs, can always reprogram the FPGA with their updated code. This can then be run and tested using the JTAG interface.

Radio Interface

As BOOST™ Core users are not tied to using one specific Bluetooth radio, then different radios can be used with the BOOST™ Board depending on the customers requirements. Multiple physical radio interfaces are available on the board so that radios from different vendors can be "plugged-in". The BOOST™ Board is provided by default with the Wipro-NewLogic BOOST™ RF test chip. Other BT 2.0/2.1+EDR RF can be connected on request.

NLDev user interface

Wipro-NewLogic has created a development application (NLDev) for the hosted model, which sits on top of the protocol stack, and runs on any Windows PC. Using this Visual Basic generated interface, the user can manipulate the BOOST™ Core and BOOST™ RF on the board and the BOOST™ Software stack to perform all of the functions defined for a fully functional Bluetooth device. This is also provided with the BOOST™ Board.

Fully Embedded BOOST™ Board

As all the BOOST™ Baseband core, Software stack, and API are all on the board there is no need to run this from NLDev on a PC. For the fully embedded model, the manipulation can be done via the keypad & LCD screen on the BOOST™ Board.

Download the product brief.