BLACK bean
BLACK bean is a high-performance and ultra-low power PCIe M.2 card combining single-stream 11ac Wave2 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® 5.0
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BLACK bean is a WiFi 5 (IEEE 802.11b/g/n/a/ac Wave2) dual-band wireless LAN and Bluetooth 5.0 PCIe M.2 card optimized for small size and low power consumption. The card is based on a Qualcomm QCA9377-5 chipset which has an integrated dual-band (2.4 and 5 GHz) 1x1 WiFi 5 radio (supporting MU-MIMO) and Bluetooth® 5.0 transceivers combined in to a very small form factor (30 x 16.5mm). The radio supports advanced power saving techniques. Bluetooth supports both Class1 and Class2 transmissions, advanced coexistence mechanisms allow it to work seamlessly with Wi-Fi ensuring good quality and high performance. BLACK bean software drivers are available for Linux, Windows 10 and Android operating systems.
Specs
- Chipset
- QCA9377-5
- Wi-Fi radio
- 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wave2, 2.5 and 5 GHz, 1x1 SiSo, 433 Mbps data-rate
- Output power
- Up to 20 dBm
- Channel sizes
- 20/ 40/ 80 MHz
- Advanced features
- MU-MIMO
- BT radio
- Bluetooth v5.0, BLE, ANT+ and backwards compatibility with v1.x and v2.x + enhanced data rate
- Temperature range
- 0 to +70 C°
- Size
- 30 x 16.5mm
- Interfaces
- PCIe M.2
Development board details
- 1 - PCIe mini interface
- 2 - M.2 to PCIe mini adapter
- 3 - BLACK bean card