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DA14580 Development Kit – Pro

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TheDA14585 and DA14586are available for new designs.

DA14580 Board – Pro

Get ahead of the competition

This DA14580 development kit pro is ideal for software developers who want total control over their software development and want to keep an eye on the power consumption of their application. The Pro kit consists of a starter kit and a daughterboard kit.

starter kit包含的主板be combined with one of several daughterboards depending on the targeted DA14580 package (WL-CSP34, QFN40 or QFN48) and gives you access to all of the package’s GPIOs. The kit’s on-board SEGGER chip gives you complete debugging capability while dedicated on-board circuitry allows you, in combination with our complete software environment SmartSnippets™, to profile and fine tune the power consumption of your application.

SmartBond™:power, size and system cost without compromise

Starter kit

Bluetooth low energy motherboard

Bluetooth low energy USB Dongle

CR2032 battery

USB cable

Quick starting guide

Daughterboard kits

The daughterboard kits to fit the start kit are available as follows:

  • 1x WL-CSP34
  • 1x QFN40
  • 1x QFN48

Ordering information

Motherboard: DA14580DEVKT-P

Daughterboard WL-CSP34: DA14580UNDB-P

Daughterboard QFN40: DA14580ATDB-P

Daughterboard QFN48: DA14580A3DB-P

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1 month ago

Chip antenna for DA14580

Posted byDang80 points 3 replies
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Dear support team,

In this post, LC_Dialog said that chip antenna was not recommended for DA14580.
https://support.dialog-semiconductor.com/forums/post/dialog-smartbond-b…

Can you please tell me more about the performance degradation when chip antenna is used with DA14580?
Is communication range/speed reduced?
Is broadcasting signal strength reduced?
How bad is it?

Printed PCB antenna is not possible for my project. Is there any way else to fix this issue?
If there is no way, what would be the best alternative to DA14580 (in term of functionality and cost), which could be used with a chip antenna?

Thanks for your help,
Dang

accepted answer!

1 month ago

PM_Dialog

Hi Dang,

Thanks for your question. As mentioned in the previous forum thread, you can use a chip antenna that is designed for a 50 Ohm matching and for 2.4GHz frequency spectrum since you it is not possible to use a printed antenna in your project. The degradation is depended on the chip antenna that will be used.

If you are starting a new design or project, we would strongly recommend moving into DA14531 or DA14585/586 products and SDK6.0.14, as it is much more improved. We have a lot of code examples and improved documentation, and there is also software roadmap support. There is not any software roadmap support for DA14580 product family and SDK5.

//www.wsdof.com/products/connectivity/bluetooth-low-energy/products/da14531

We also have a DA14531 module, namely DA14531 SmartBond TINY™ Module! It has very small dimensions and is very low power. Follow the link below to find datasheet, documentation and HW collaterals for the module:

//www.wsdof.com/products/bluetooth-module-da14531-smartbond-tiny

Thanks, PM_Dialog

1 month ago

Dang 80 points

Dear PM_Dialog,

Can you please confirm that DA14531 does not have any problem with chip antenna?

I assume performance is the same either printed antenna or chip antenna is used with DA14531?

Thanks for your support,

Dang

1 month ago

PM_Dialog

Hi Dang,

Thanks for accepting my answer. Yes, a chip antenna can be used. In general, every ceramic chip antenna for the 2.4GHz band could be used. However, the antenna selection is closely depended on the board. Different ceramic antennas might have special placement needs : some needs to be mounted on the edge, some needs ground free bottom layer, etc. There is a great variety of 2.4GHz chip antennas available on the market. Please follow the layout guideline in the datasheet and see also theAN-B-075: DA14531 Hardware Guidelinesdocument.

Thanks, PM_Dialog