Wireless extension board

This extension board (APW) from Armadeus Systems, designed to be pluggable on an APF27Dev, will give your system the following wireless capabilities (depending on the options you selected):

• WiFi b/g and Bluetooth (Wi2Wi W2CBW003)
• GSM/GPRS (Sagem HiLo)
• GPS (u-blox NEO-5Q)

Figure 1: APW with all options populated (no antenna)

Linux configuration

• Linux will have to be configured in order to tell it that an APW is connected to your APF27Dev:

$ make linux-menuconfig

System Type  --->
    Freescale MXC Implementations  --->
            ...
            Extension board (Wireless (APW))  --->
       [ ] GSM/GPRS Modem (NEW)
       [ ] Bluetooth & WiFi module (NEW)
       [ ] CSI (Camera) pass-through (NEW)
       [ ] GPS module (NEW)

Select the options installed on your APW board (WiFi can only be selected if SPI3 port is not selected for general purpose (SDHC1 & SPI3 are muxed)).

$ make linux

• reflash you Linux kernel

Features

• WiFi: use Linux libertas driver
• Bluetooth
• GPS
• GSM/GPRS

Resources

• Datasheet and schema
• Product page on Armadeus Systems website