External Antenna; User Buttons; Display Shield - Infineon AIROC CYW20829 Bluetooth LE SoC Manual

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Achieving long range transmission using AIROC™ CYW20829
Bluetooth® LE SoC
Hardware setup
3.2.1

External antenna

The external antenna is one of the preferred options to use in the long-range application. To use the external
antenna, switch the capacitor (C25) on the CYW920829M2IPA1 (M.2 Card) towards the external antenna path, as
shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7 Antenna switching
3.2.2

User buttons

The user button (SW2) on the EVK is used for the following:
Initiate the advertisement on the server side and initiate the scanning on client side
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Switch the coding scheme between S=2 and S=8 after the connection is established.
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Reset button (SW1) is used to re initiate the application on central & peripheral side.
3.2.3

Display shield

The display shield is optional and can be used to show the coding scheme, RSSI values, and connection status
etc. The user can enable or disable the
Application note
display shield in the firmware setting (makefile).
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2023-09-12