Cysmart BLE dongle with external antenna

[Francois]

Hello,

We have used CYBLE 022001 module in one of our design.

For CE marking, we need to make a blocking test (reception sensitivity).

For that, I use Cysmart with BLE dongle connected and sending BLE frames to our equipment

But when signal is going trough test equipment, there is too much loss of signal.

Is there a possibility to have Cysmart BLE dongle with external antenna (and to connect it directly to spectrum analyser) ?

I though using Pionner Kit CY8CKIT-042-BLE with eval board CYBLE-202007-EVAL (which has external antenna)

but will it work with Cysmart software ?

Best regards

francois

[Yugandhar · Accepted solution]

Hello,

There is no Cysmart dongle with external antenna but you can solder SMA Connector to the dongle. The antenna path needs to be totally isolated and care should be taken to ensure that no stub is formed while connecting the SMA connector.
It is not possible to program Cysmart software into PSoC4 BLE pioneer kit. The supported dongle types are CY5670, CY5672 and CY5677. Please refer to the page93 in CySmart API Reference Guide.

Thanks,
P Yugandhar.