The development kit follows the recent announcement of the Packetcraft LC3, a highly optimized and efficient LC3 codec for Bluetooth LE Audio, and that the software from the Bluetooth protocol stack pioneer has achieved Bluetooth 5.3 qualification, including the world’s first qualification of new Bluetooth 5.3 link layer technical features.
The new EK-B02-BL5340 evaluation kit, now brought to the market by Laird Connectivity and Packetcraft, delivers a complete Bluetooth LE Audio solution using Laird's BL5340 Series modules. This series of robust, tiny modules features Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF5340 system-on-chip (SoC) and directly targets the highest performance with the lowest power budget. Laird delivers a secure, high-performance dual-core MCU wireless solution with a choice of modules - BL5340 with nRF5340, or a power amplified variant (BL5340PA with nRF5340 + nRF21540), with integrated pre-certified PCB or Trace pad antenna options, and multiple tools for advanced Bluetooth LE product development.
The new LE Audio evaluation kits allow developers to explore the Laird BL5340 development boards together with a custom audio interface board, combined with Packetcraft’s comprehensive software solution for LE Audio, which includes the link layer, host stack, and LC3 codec. Packetcraft’s software is Bluetooth qualified and designed specifically for ultra-low power resource-constrained embedded devices. Together, these solutions provide a platform that gives developers everything needed to start creating Bluetooth LE Audio products such as wireless microphones, broadcast audio for infrastructure, and much more.
The EK-B02-BL5340, now available is pre-configured out of the box. Developers just need to plug in power, audio input, and audio output, and follow the included one-page quick start guide to select one of the five included demos of common use cases. The kit contains three Laird Connectivity BL5340 DVKs, three BL5340 AIB v1, one ground loop isolator, three TRS 1/8” (3.5mm) audio cables and three USB cables for power. It comes pre-loaded with LE Audio Eval Kit binary firmware.
The kit is ready straight out of the box to demonstrate broadcast music, unicast music, and dual-microphone applications with synchronized stereo or multiple left/right receivers. These serve applications such as Personal Audio Sharing, Location-based Audio Sharing, banded headphones, wireless speakers and microphones, conferencing, music, and gaming applications, which all benefit from the quality and performance of Bluetooth LE Audio.
Packetcraft designed, developed and integrated LE Audio features into its software since 2018 and is ready to support the new advanced features like high quality low-latency broadcast audio and standardized streaming “true wireless stereo” audio, with left-right synchronization down to microseconds.
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