Hi All,
I was going through my old stock of Modules and I found couple of CC300 MOD without embedded Ant.
I know How to use CAD apps like Eagle and KiCAD but have never designed any Antenna based Module ?
Can anyone help me with standard components as I don't have any means to buy any fresh Inductors/ Caps for a tuning circuits ??
Regards,
Hi Gurinder,
The CC3000 is best thrown away however, because it's very obsolete. It was not made by TI for very long, about 8 years ago.
I'm guessing it had issues or was experimental.
If you mean CC3100 then you'll find lots more information for that and it's a very mature stable product.
Another option (if you don't wish to implement a PCB antenna) is to put an SMA connector on the board, and screw on an antenna.
Here's an example, this is with CC3220 module.
Not much to say about it, except that the track to the connector is about 0.8 mm thick, and the gap to the ground plane is 0.15 mm.
The holes are 0.4 mm diameter, and separated about 1.6 mm. There's a ground plane on the other side too of course (1.6 mm thick PCB).
You can use different values if required/desired, calculate the values from here. All the low-cost PCB manufacturers might not like 0.15 mm gap, but it's marginal and they may let you do it.
Hi Gurinder,
The CC3000 is best thrown away however, because it's very obsolete. It was not made by TI for very long, about 8 years ago.
I'm guessing it had issues or was experimental.
If you mean CC3100 then you'll find lots more information for that and it's a very mature stable product.
Another option (if you don't wish to implement a PCB antenna) is to put an SMA connector on the board, and screw on an antenna.
Here's an example, this is with CC3220 module.
Not much to say about it, except that the track to the connector is about 0.8 mm thick, and the gap to the ground plane is 0.15 mm.
The holes are 0.4 mm diameter, and separated about 1.6 mm. There's a ground plane on the other side too of course (1.6 mm thick PCB).
You can use different values if required/desired, calculate the values from here. All the low-cost PCB manufacturers might not like 0.15 mm gap, but it's marginal and they may let you do it.
Thanks Shabaz,
I did try this stunt before bot it totally didn't work, any guidance on Antenna Design ?
Regards,
