RTL8710 Wifi Module Specification
RTL8710 Wifi Module Specification
RTL8710 Wifi Module Specification
PRODUCT SPECIFICATION
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Release Date : 2016/5/12
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Contents
1. PRODUCT PROFILE................................................................................................................................. 4
2. INTERFACE DEFINITION........................................................................................................................ 7
4. FUNCTION DESCRIPTION....................................................................................................................11
5. RF PARAMETERS................................................................................................................................... 13
6. POWER CONSUMPTION....................................................................................................................... 13
7. TEMPERATURE DRIFT......................................................................................................................... 15
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1. Product Profile
Realtek intelligent platform of the Internet and Realtek 8710 high performance wireless SOC bring the blessedness for
mobile platform designers with maximum availability at the lowest cost,which provides endless possibilities for WiFi function
embedded into other systems.
Realtek 8710 can run independently as a complete and self-contained WiFi network solution, which also be
used to running as slave machine embark on other host MCU.Realtek 8710 with applications can directly start
from an external flash memory as the only application processor of the equipment.Its built-in cache improves
system performance and reduce memory requirements.
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There is another situation that Realtek 8710 is responsible for wireless Internet access, undertaking the task
of the WiFi adapter, which can be added to any design based on microcontroller just through simple connection
with SPI/SDIO interface or I2C/UART port.
Realtek 8710 powerful processing and storage capacity on chip, make it can integrate sensors through the
GPIO ports and other application with specific equipment, which realizes the lowest cost in preliminary
development and the leastest occupation of system resources.
Realtek 8710 integrates highly on chip, including antenna switch ,balun , power management converter, so
that it takes only a few external circuit,which minimizes the space when engineer designs PCB on the whole
solution, including front-end module.
1.1 Characteristics
• 802.11 b/g/n ,CMOS MAC, Baseband PHY
• Internal low power 32 位 CPU: as applicaton processor
• Internal TCP/IP protocol stack
• Internal TR Switch、balun、LNA、Power Amplifier and Matching Network
• Internal PLL、VLDO and Power Management Components
• MO、2x1 MIMO
• A-MPDU 、A-MSDU aggregation and 0.4 s Guard Interval
• WiFi @ 2.4 GHz,Support WPA/WPA2 Security Mode
• Support STA/AP/STA+AP Module
• Support Smart Config function(include Android 和 iOS devices)
• HSPI 、UART、I2C、I2S、IR Remote Control、PWM、GPIO
• Deep Sleep Current 10 uA,Shutdown Current below 5 uA
• Wake up, connect and transfer data packets within 2 ms
• 802.11b modle+ 17 dBm Output Power
• Stand down Power below 1.0 mW (DTIM3)
• Operating Temperature Range: -20℃ - 85℃
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Table 1
GPIO
operating voltage
3.0~3.6V(suggested :3.3V)
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security mechanism WPA/WPA2
2. Interface definition
Figure 2 Definition of the Interface
Figure 2
Note:The default naming rules for GC2 means GPIOC second pin
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1 GC2 UART0_RTS,SPI0_MOSI,I2S1_SD_TX,PCM1_OUT,PWM2,ETE2
2 GC5 I2C1_SCL,SPI0_CS2,GPIO_INT
4 GE4 JTAG_CLK,SPIO0_CS1
5 GE1 JTAG_TDI,UART0_RTS,I2C2_SDA,SPI0_CLK,PCM0_CLK,PWM1,GPIO_INT
6 GE3 JATG_TMS,UART0_IN,I2C3_SDA,SPI0_MISO,PCM0_IN,PWM3,WKDT3,GPIO_INT
8 VDD33 3.3V
9 GA2 SD_CMD,UART2_RTS,SPI1_CLK
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11 GA5 SD_D1,WKDT0
12 GA1 SD_D3,UART2_CTS,SPI1_MOSI,GPIO_INT
13 GA0 SD_D2,UART2_IN,SPI1_MISO,GPIO_INT
14 GA3 SD_CLK
15 GND GND
16 GE0 JTAG_TRST,UART0_OUT,I2C2_SCL,SPI0_CS0,PCM0_SYNC,PWM0
17 GA4 SD_D0,UART2_OUT,SPI1_CS
18 GC0 UART0_IN,SPI0_CS0,I2S1_WS,PCM1_SYNC,PWM0,ETE0
19 GC3 UART0_OUT,SPI0_MISO,I2S1_MCK,PCM1_IN,PWM3,ETE3,GPIO_INT
21 GB1 UART_LOG_IN,ETE1,WKDT0
22 GB0 UART_LOG_OUT,ETE0
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Table 5 RTL00 module size table
4. Function description
4.1 MCU
Realtek rtl8710af is a low power single chip.It integrates a ARM-CM3 MCU, 802.11 n
wireless network controller.It also provides some peripherals with configurable GPIO.
Realtek 8710 has internal memory controller including ROM and SRAM.MCU can access
memory controller by iBus, dBus and AHB interface. These interfaces can access ROM or RAM
unit as memory arbitrator determines the running order according to arrival sequence. Given
the SRAM used by our Demo SDK i n current situation, the user can use the remaining SRAM
size > 48 KB.
Now the module internal integrate 1 MB of SPI Flash, which does not support external SPI
Flash.
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5. RF Parameters
Parameters Typ units
Input Frequency 2412-2483.5 MHz
Input resistance 50 Ω
6. Power Consumption
The following data is based on the 3.3 V power supply, around 25 ° C temperature,
measured by the internal voltage regulator.
All measurements in the absence of SAW filter, completed in the antenna interface.
All emission data is based on 90% of the duty ratio, measured in continuous emission mode.
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Transmit 802.11n(HT20), MCS7, POUT 168 mA
=+14dBm
Modem-Sleep① 15 mA
Light-Sleep② 0.9 mA
Deep-Sleep③ 10 uA
Note 1: Modem - Sleep is applied to the CPU in the continuous working condition Such as
PWM or I2S application, etc.With keeping the WiFi connection, if there is no data transfer, close
the WiFi Modem circuit to save electricity according to 802.11 standard (such as U - APSD). For
example, When DTIM3, 300 ms sleep time includes awaking time 3 ms to receive AP Beacon
packets and so on, the overall average current is about 15 ma.
Note 2:Light - Sleep is applied to the CPU which suspend the application of such as WiFi
switch.With keeping the WiFi connection, if there is no data transfer, close the WiFi Modem
circuit to save electricity according to 802.11 standard (such as U - APSD). For example, When
DTIM3, 300 ms sleep time includes awaking time 3 ms to receive AP Beacon packets and so on,
the overall average current is about 0.9 ma.
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Note 3:Deep-Sleep without keeping WiFi connection, is applied to the application which sends
a packet with long time interval , such as measurement temperature sensor works once every
100 seconds. For example, 300 ms sleep time including awaking time 0.3~1s to connect AP ,
the overall average current can be far less than 1 mA.
7. Temperature Drift
Temperature Drift TS Max -TL Max 3℃/sec
preheating
TS Min. 150℃
TS Typ. 175℃
TS Max. 200℃
T 60~180 sec
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