Marvell Avastar 88W8787 SoC

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Marvell Avastar 88W8787 SoC
WLAN/Bluetooth/FM Single-Chip SoC
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The Marvell® Avastar™ 88W8787 is a highly integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC), specifically designed to support high
throughput data rates for next-generation products. The Marvell Avastar family of wireless devices delivers best-inclass single-function and multi-function radios for the entire spectrum of always-on consumer electronics devices.
The Marvell Avastar 88W8787 SoC is designed for both simultaneous and independent operation of the following:
• IEEE 802.11a/g/b and 802.11n payload data rates for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)
• Bluetooth 3.0 + High Speed (HS) (also compliant with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR)
• FM transmit and receive (digital encoder/decoder FM radio with RDS/RBDS)
The device supports the 802.11i security standard through implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES)/Counter Mode CBC-MAC Protocol (CCMP), Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) with Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
(TKIP), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)/Cipher-Based Message Authentication Code (CMAC), and WLAN
Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) security mechanisms.
For video, voice, and multimedia applications, 802.11e Quality of Service (QoS) is supported. The device also supports
802.11h Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) for detecting radar pulses when operating in the 5 GHz range.
The 88W8787 supports generic interfaces including SDIO, G-SPI, high-speed UART, and PCM for connecting WLAN,
Bluetooth, and FM to the host processor. For FM Tx/Rx, the device supports Inter-IC Sound (I2S) / analog stereo audio
interfaces. An I2C-compatible interface is available to connect FM Tx/Rx to the host processor, as well. FM Tx/Rx can
also share the host interface with Bluetooth.
The device is also equipped with a coexistence interface for external, co-located 2.4 GHz radios.
Available packaging includes a TFBGA or CSP flip chip option.
BLOCK DIAGRAM
WLAN MAC/Baseband
Processor
JTAG Interface
Marvell
Feroceon
CPU
CPU
Interface
ROM
LNA
Power
Management
RF Output
C
P
U
Bluetooth
Baseband
2
Bluetooth DSP
Encryption
c
FM RF
Interface
FM RF
SRAM
I
N
T
E
R
N
A
L
SP3T
LNA
Bluetooth RF
Bluetooth Tx/Rx
Common Analog
B
U
S
Audio Codec
Controller
WLAN/Bluetooth Rx
2.4 GHz External PA
B
U
S
FM Tx/Rx
Shared
LNA
WLAN Tx
LDO
Audio Interface
I S Audio Codec Interface
WLAN RF
LNA
Bluetooth
Sleep Clock
5 GHz External PA
Coexistence
Arbiter
Battery/Low Voltage LDO
Power Down
RF Input
5 GHz WLAN Tx
802.11
Baseband
(DSSS/OFDM)
Power Management
I 2S/PCM
5 GHz WLAN Rx
802.11
MAC
Timers/
Interrupts
JTAG
Direct Conversion RF
Common Analog Unit
XTAL_IN
XTAL_OUT
DMA
Coexistence Interface
(external co-located 2.4 GHz radio)
Host Interfaces
Peripheral Bus
3-Wire,4-Wire Interface
2-Wire Serial Interface
1-Wire Serial Interface
Serial EEPROM
GPIO
Clocked
Serial Unit
B
U
S
SDIO
SDIO
G-SPI
G-SPI
UART
High Speed UART
Peripheral Bus Unit
GPIO/LED
2
I C-compatible (slave from Host)
I 2C-Compatible
Fig 1. Avastar 88W8787 SoC Block Diagram
1. Antenna can be used as an option to enhance performance
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SPECIFICATIONS
APPLICATIONS
WLAN MAC
• WLAN/Bluetooth/FM enabled cellular handsets
• Ad-Hoc and Infrastructure Modes
• Portable audio/video devices and accessories
• RTS/CTS for operation under DCF
• Personal navigation devices
• Hardware filtering of 32 multicast addresses and duplicate frame
detection for up to 32 unicast addresses
• Personal digital assistants
• Gaming platforms
• On-chip Tx and Rx FIFO for maximum throughput
• Open System and Shared Key Authentication services
• A-MPDU Rx (de-aggregation) and Tx (aggregation)
GENERAL FEATURES
• Simultaneous and independent WLAN, Bluetooth, and FM Tx/Rx
operation
• Coexistence with cellular and other on-chip radios
• Low power dissipation
• CMOS and low-swing sine wave input clock
• Digital audio interfaces (I2S and PCM)
• 12, 13, 19.2, 24, 26, 38.4, and 52 MHz crystal clock support with autofrequency detection using external 32.768 KHz CMOS-level sleep clock
• Power management with external sleep clock support for FM Tx/Rx
operation
• 20/40 MHz coexistence
• Reduced Inter-Frame Spacing (RIFS) bursting
• Management information base counters
• Radio resource measurement counters
• Block acknowledgement with 802.11n extension
• Dynamic frequency selection (DFS)
• Transmit beamformee support
• Transmit rate adaptation
• Transmit power control
• Long and short preamble generation on a frame-by-frame basis for
802.11b frames
• Sleep and standby modes for low power operation
• Fully compatible with Marvell Power Management device(s)
WLAN BASEBAND
• 802.11n 1x1 SISO with on-chip Marvell SISO RF radio
IEEE 802.11 STANDARDS
• 802.11 data rates of 1 and 2 Mbps
• Backward compatibility with legacy 802.11a/g/b technology
• WLAN/Bluetooth LNA sharing
• 802.11b data rates of 5.5 and 11 Mbps
• PHY data rates up to 150 Mbps
• 802.11a/g data rates 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 54 Mbps for
multimedia content transmission
• 20, 40, 20 in 40 MHz, and duplicate legacy mode operation
• Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS)—0~7 and 32 (duplicate 6 Mbps)
• 802.11g/b performance enhancements
• Enhanced radar detection for long and shot pulse radar
• 802.11n compliant, with maximum data rates up to 72 Mbps (20 MHz
channel) and 150 Mbps (40 MHz channel)
• Enhanced AGC scheme for DFS channel
• 802.11d international roaming
• Radio resource measurement
• 802.11e QoS block acknowledgement (with support for 802.11n
extension)
• Optional 802.11n SISO features:
• 802.11h transmit power control
• 802.11h DFS radar pulse detection
• 802.11i enhanced security
• 802.11k radio resource measurement
• 802.11r fast hand-off for AP roaming
• 802.11w protected management frames
• Fully supports clients (stations) implementing IEEE Power Save mode
PACKAGING
• 120-pin TFBGA
• CSP Flip Chip
PROCESSOR
• CPU
- Integrated Marvell Feroceon® CPU (ARMv5TE-compliant)
- 160 MHz maximum CPU clock speed
• DMA
• Japan DFS requirements for W53 and W56
- 20/40 MHz coexistence
- 1-stream STBC reception
- Short guard interval
- RIFS on receive path
- Beamformee function and hardware acceleration
- Greenfield Tx/Rx
• Power save features
WLAN RADIO
• Integrated direct-conversion radio
• 20 and 40 MHz channel bandwidths
• Shared WLAN/Bluetooth receive input scheme for 2.4 GHz band
WLAN Rx PATH
• Direct conversion architecture eliminates need for external SAW filter
• On-chip gain selectable LNA with optimized noise figure and power
consumption
• High dynamic range AGC function in receive mode
- Independent 2-Channel Direct Memory Access (DMA)
WLAN Tx PATH
MEMORY
• External PA with power control
• Internal SRAM for Tx frame queues/Rx data buffers
• Closed/open loop power control (0.5 dB increments)
• Boot ROM
• Optimized Tx gain distribution for linearity and noise performance
• ROM patching capability
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SPECIFICATIONS
WLAN LOCAL OSCILLATOR
FM Rx PATH
• Fractional-N for multiple reference clock support
• FM/RDS/RBDS receiver
• Fine channel step, AFC (adaptive frequency control)
• Automatic frequency control (AFC)
• Auto search tuning
• Softmute
WLAN ENCRYPTION
• Audio mute
• WEP 64- and 128-bit encryption with hardware TKIP processing (WPA)
• Mono/stereo blending (signal dependent)
• AES-CCMP hardware implementation as part of 802.11i security
standard (WPA2)
• Digital FM demodulation
• Enhanced AES engine performance
• FM audio routed internally as SCO source
• AES-Cipher-Based Message Authentication Code (CMAC) as part of the
802.11w security standard
• Programmable pre/de-emphasis (50/75 µs)
• WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI)
• Enable/disable stereo mode
• RDS data buffer
• TMC (traffic alert) supported
• FM audio option to turn off CPU if no RDS
BLUETOOTH
• Bluetooth 3.0 + HS (also compliant with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR)
• Audio silence detection
• Alternate frequency
• Bluetooth Class 2
• Bluetooth Class 1
• Single-ended, shared Tx/Rx path for Bluetooth
• Shared LNA for WLAN/Bluetooth
• Digital audio interfaces including PCM interface for voice applications
and I2S for digital stereo applications
• Baseband and radio BDR and EDR packet types—1 Mbps (GFSK), 2
Mbps (p/4-DQPSK), and 3 Mbps (8DPSK)
• Fully functional Bluetooth baseband—AFH, forward error correction,
header error control, access code correlation, CRC, encryption bit
stream generation, and whitening
FM Tx PATH
• FM/RDS/RBDS transmitter
• RDS data buffer
• High Tx output power (+125 dBµVrms) for loop antenna
• Auto scan for channel selection
• Auto channel sync through RDS
• Audio mute
• Audio Automatic Gain Control (AGC)
• Compensation for 32 kHz clock error
• Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) including Packet Loss Rate (PLR)
• Interlaced scan for faster connection setup
• Simultaneous active ACL connection support
COEXISTENCE
• Automatic ACL packet type selection
• Coexistence interface for external, co-located 2.4 GHz radio
• Full master and slave piconet support
- Marvell 3/4-wire interface
• Scatternet support
- WL_ACTIVE 3/4-wire interface
• Standard UART, G-SPI, and SDIO HCI transport layer
- WL_ACTIVE 2-wire interface
• HCI layer verified to function with major profile stack vendors
• SCO/eSCO links with hardware accelerated audio signal processing and
hardware supported PPEC algorithm for speech quality improvement
• All standard SCO/eSCO voice coding
HOST INTERFACES
• All standard pairing, authentication, link key, and encryption operations
• SDIO device interface (SPI, 1-bit SDIO, 4-bit SDIO transfer modes at
full clock range up to 75 MHz)[1]
• Standard Bluetooth power saving mechanisms (i.e., hold, sniff modes)
• G-SPI device interface (WLAN and Bluetooth)[2]
• Enhanced low power scan mode
• High speed UART interface
• Dynamic Transmit Power Control (TPC)
• Optional I2C-compatible slave interface for FM control
• Channel Quality Driven (CQD) data rate
• SBC off load for A2DP streaming
• Wideband Speech Support
PERIPHERAL BUS INTERFACES
• Clocked Serial Unit (CSU)
- 3-Wire, 4-Wire Serial Interface
FM RADIO
- 2-Wire Serial Interface
• Worldwide FM band—76–108 MHz
- 1-Wire Serial Interface
• Full Tx/Rx operation with main clock as well as 32.768 kHz external
sleep clock
• Channel spacing/frequency step size (50 kHz steps)
• Stereo analog and digital input/output for Tx/Rx
- SPI Serial EEPROM
• General Purpose Input Output (GPIO)
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SPECIFICATIONS
AUDIO INTERFACES
• Audio Codec Interface
- Marvell Class D Audio Amplifier
- I2S (Inter-IC Sound) interface for audio data connection to Analogto-Digital Converters (ADC) and Digital-to-Analog Converters (DAC)
- Master and slave mode for I2S, MSB, and LSB audio interfaces
- Tri-state I2S interface capability
• PCM Interface
- Master or slave mode
- PCM bit width size of 8 bits or 16 bits
- Up to 4 slots with configurable bit width and start positions
- Short frame and long frame synchronization
- Tri-state PCM interface capability
TEST
• On-chip diagnostic information
1. SDIO may be used as host interface for WLAN, Bluetooth, and FM. Function 1 used for
WLAN, and Function 2 used for Bluetooth/FM.
2. G-SPI may also used as a host interface for FM. G-SPI may be shared between Bluetooth
and FM with WLAN on a different host interface.
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