Avnet BCM4343W IoT Starter Kit

The Avnet BCM4343W IoT Starter Kit enables designers to easily prototype cloud-connected IoT designs and then rapidly move from development to production with a pre-certified wireless SoC module.

The Starter Kit features an Arduino form-factor baseboard and pre-certified Avnet BCM4343W SoC module. This Wi-Fi+BLE+MCU module combines an advanced Cypress's combo 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth® 4.1 SoC, together with 8Mb of SPI Serial Flash and an STM32F411 ARM® Cortex M4 Microcontroller with 512KB Flash and 128KB SRAM. The baseboard includes access to the MCU's various peripherals via Arduino compatible headers as well as a 2x6 format peripheral connector, allowing connection to a range of expansion boards for sensors, motors, digital I/O and analog inputs.

Application development is supported by Cypress's WICED Software Development Kit (SDK), which includes connection to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM® Watson IoT Platform through an intuitive integrated development environment. The starter kit simplifies cloud connectivity for designers in a variety of IoT market segments, including industrial automation, building automation and smart home appliances.

Key Features

• Wi-Fi + BLE + MCU module
• STM32F411 ARM Cortex M4 MCU
• 512KB Flash, 128KB SRAM, 8Mb SPI Serial Flash
• Supports 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.1 (with an upgrade path to Bluetooth 4.2)
• Dual fractal PCB antennas supporting antenna diversity

• GPIO (4)
• Analog inputs (3)
• Two I2C ports (1 shared)
• SPI port
• Two UARTs (1 shared)
• Supports 3.3V I/O only

• I2C port (shared)USB Based JTAG debugger/programmer and serial UART port

• User push button switch
• Two user LEDs
• UART, JTAG and WLAN activity LEDs
• Ambient light sensor