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information.
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REVISION HISTORY
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Summary
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Table of Contents
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6. ELECTRICAL AND THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS ............................................................................................... 9
5. PIN DESCRIPTIONS .......................................................................................................................................................... 6
4. PIN ASSIGNMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................... 5
4.1.
PACKAGE IDENTIFICATION .............................................................................................................................................. 6
3. APPLICATION DIAGRAM ............................................................................................................................................... 5
3.1.
SINGLE-BAND 11N (1X1) SOLUTION ................................................................................................................................ 5
2. FEATURES .......................................................................................................................................................................... 3
1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................................................................ 1
5.1.
SDIO INTERFACE ............................................................................................................................................................ 7
5.2. GSPI INTERFACE ............................................................................................................................................................. 7
5.3.
POWER PINS .................................................................................................................................................................... 7
5.4. RF INTERFACE................................................................................................................................................................. 8
5.5. LED INTERFACE .............................................................................................................................................................. 8
5.6. CLOCK AND OTHER PINS ................................................................................................................................................. 8
6.1. TEMPERATURE LIMIT RATINGS ....................................................................................................................................... 9
6.2. TEMPERATURE LIMIT RATINGS ....................................................................................................................................... 9
6.3. DC CHARACTERISTICS .................................................................................................................................................... 9
6.3.1.
Power Supply Characteristics ............................................................................................................................... 9
6.3.2. Digital IO Pin DC Characteristics......................................................................................................................... 9
6.4.
IO CHARACTERISTICS .................................................................................................................................................... 10
6.5. AC CHARACTERISTICS .................................................................................................................................................. 10
SDIO/GSPI Interface Characteristics .................................................................................................................. 10
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6.5.1.
7. MECHANICAL DIMENSIONS ....................................................................................................................................... 15
7.1. MECHANICAL DIMENSIONS NOTES ................................................................................................................................ 16
8. ORDERING INFORMATION .......................................................................................................................................... 17
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List of Tables
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TABLE 1. SDIO INTERFACE ........................................................................................................................................................ 7
TABLE 2. GSPI INTERFACE ......................................................................................................................................................... 7
TABLE 3. POWER PINS ................................................................................................................................................................ 7
TABLE 4. RF INTERFACE............................................................................................................................................................. 8
TABLE 5. LED INTERFACE .......................................................................................................................................................... 8
TABLE 6. CLOCK AND OTHER PINS ............................................................................................................................................. 8
TABLE 7. TEMPERATURE LIMIT RATINGS ................................................................................................................................... 9
TABLE 8. TEMPERATURE LIMIT RATINGS ................................................................................................................................... 9
TABLE 9. DC CHARACTERISTICS ................................................................................................................................................ 9
TABLE 10.
3.3V GPIO DC CHARACTERISTICS .......................................................................................................................... 9
2.8V GPIO DC CHARACTERISTICS .......................................................................................................................... 9
TABLE 11.
1.8V GPIO DC CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................................................................................ 10
TABLE 12.
SDIO INTERFACE TIMING PARAMETERS ............................................................................................................... 10
TABLE 13.
TABLE 14.
SDIO INTERFACE POWER ON TIMING PARAMETERS ............................................................................................. 12
SPI INTERFACE POWER ON TIMING PARAMETERS ................................................................................................. 14
TABLE 15.
TABLE 16.
ORDERING INFORMATION ...................................................................................................................................... 17
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FIGURE 1. SINGLE-BAND 11N (1X1) SOLUTION ............................................................................................................................... 5
FIGURE 2. PIN ASSIGNMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 6
FIGURE 3. SDIO INTERFACE TIMING ............................................................................................................................................. 10
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1. General Description
RTL8189EM
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The Realtek RTL8189EM is a highly integrated single-chip 802.11n Wireless LAN (WLAN) network
SDIO interface (SDIO 1.1/ 2.0 compliant) controller. It is a WLAN MAC, a 1T1R capable WLAN
baseband, and WLAN RF in a single chip. The RTL8189EM provides a complete solution for a high
throughput performance integrated wireless LAN device.
The RTL8189EM WLAN baseband implements Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
with 1 transmit and 1 receive path and is compatible with the IEEE 802.11n specification. Features include
one spatial stream transmission, short guard interval (GI) of 400ns, spatial spreading, and transmission over
20MHz and 40MHz bandwidth.
For legacy compatibility, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS), Complementary Code Keying (CCK)
and OFDM baseband processing are included to support all IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g data rates.
Differential phase shift keying modulation schemes, DBPSK and DQPSK with data scrambling capability,
are available, and CCK provides support for legacy data rates, with long or short preamble. The high-speed
FFT/IFFT paths, combined with BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, and 64QAM modulation of the individual
subcarriers and rate compatible punctured convolutional coding with coding rate of 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, and 5/6,
provide higher data rates of 54Mbps and 150Mbps for IEEE 802.11g and 802.11n OFDM respectively.
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The RTL8189EM WLAN Controller builds in an enhanced signal detector, an adaptive frequency domain
equalizer, and a soft-decision Viterbi decoder to alleviate severe multi-path effects and mutual interference
in the reception of multiple streams. Robust interference detection and suppression are provided to protect
against Bluetooth, cordless phone, and microwave oven interference.
The RTL8189EM WLAN Controller supports fast receiver Automatic Gain Control (AGC) with
synchronous and asynchronous control loops among antennas, antenna diversity functions, and adaptive
transmit power control function to obtain the better performance in the analog portions of the transceiver.
Efficient IQ-imbalance, DC offset, phase noise, frequency offset, and timing offset compensations are
provided for the radio frequency front-end. Selectable digital transmit and receive FIR filters are provided
to meet transmit spectrum mask requirements and to reject adjacent channel interference, respectively.
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The RTL8189EM WLAN MAC supports 802.11e for multimedia applications, 802.11i for security, and
802.11n for enhanced MAC protocol efficiency. Using packet aggregation techniques such as A-MPDU
with BA and A-MSDU, protocol efficiency is significantly improved. Power saving mechanisms such as
Legacy Power Save, and U-APSD, reduce the power wasted during idle time, and compensates for the extra
power required to transmit OFDM. The RTL8189EM provides simple legacy and 20MHz/40MHz
co-existence mechanisms to ensure backward and network compatibility.
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2. Features
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WLAN MAC Features
CMOS MAC, Baseband PHY, and RF in a
Power saving mechanism
Compatible with 802.11n specification
Channel management and co-existence
Transmit Opportunity (TXOP) Short
band
compatibility
General
32-pin QFN
Low latency immediate High-Throughput
Block Acknowledgement (HT-BA)
Frame aggregation for increased MAC
efficiency (A-MSDU, A-MPDU)
150Mbps receive PHY rate and 150Mbps
transmit PHY rate using 40MHz bandwidth
Backward compatible with 802.11b/g
Support Scan and Preferred Network
devices while operating in 802.11n mode
Offload
Complete 802.11n solution for 2.4GHz
PHY-level spoofing to enhance legacy
Inter-Frame Space (SIFS) bursting for
higher multimedia bandwidth
single chip for 802.11b/g/n compatible
WLAN
72.2Mbps receive PHY rate and 72.2Mbps
transmit PHY rate using 20MHz bandwidth
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64QAM modulation.
Convolutional Coding Rate: 1/2, 2/3, 3/4,
and 5/6
Complies with SDIO 1.1/ 2.0 for WLAN
IEEE 802.11n OFDM
802.11i (WPA, WPA2). Open, shared key,
and pair-wise key authentication services
DSSS with DBPSK and DQPSK, CCK
modulation with long and short preamble
20MHz and 40MHz bandwidth
transmission
Host Interface
WLAN PHY Features
WLAN
Standards Supported
Maximum data rate 54Mbps in 802.11g and
150Mbps in 802.11n
One Transmit and one Receive path (1T1R)
IEEE 802.11b/g/n compatible WLAN
IEEE 802.11e QoS Enhancement (WMM)
with clock rate up to 50MHz
GSPI interface for configurable endian for
Short Guard Interval (400ns)
OFDM with BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, and
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Switch diversity for DSSS/CCK
Fast receiver Automatic Gain Control
(AGC)
Hardware antenna diversity in per packet
base
Selectable receiver FIR filters
One configurable LED pins
General Purpose Input/Output (5 pins)
On-chip ADC and DAC
Peripheral Interfaces
Programmable scaling in transmitter and
receiver to trade quantization noise against
increased probability of clipping
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