AW-CB375NF   
 
IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wireless LAN 2T2R and 
Bluetooth 5.0 Combo Module (M.2 2230) 
 
 
 
 
 
Datasheet 
 
 
Rev. A 
 
 
B2 
 
(For STD) 
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Features
WLAN 
General 
                                                                                                                                                                                       
 
  Frame  aggregation 
for 
increased  MAC 
efficiency (A-MSDU, A-MPDU) 
  Support  802.11ac  2x2,Wave-2  compliant  with 
  Low 
latency 
immediate 
Block 
MU-MIMO 
Acknowledgement (BA) 
  Complete  802.11n  MIMO  solution  for  2.4GHz 
  Long  NAV  for  media  reservation  with  CF-End 
and 5Ghz band 
for NAV release 
  Maximum  PHY  data  rate  up  to  173.3  Mbps 
  Channel management and co-existence 
using  20MHz  bandwidth,  400Mbps  using 
40MHz  bandwidth,  and  866.7Mbps  using 
  MIMO power saving mechanism 
  PHY-level  spoofing 
to  enhance 
legacy 
80MHz bandwidth. 
compatibility 
  Backward compatible with 802.11a/b/g devices 
while operating at 802.11n data rates 
  Multiple BSSID feature allows the RTL8822CE-
CG  to  assume  multiple  MAC  identities  when 
  Backward  compatible  with  802.11a/n  devices 
used as a wireless bridge 
while operating at 802.11ac data rates. 
Host interface 
  Transmit  Opportunity  (TXOP)  Short 
Inter-
Frame  Space  (SIFS)  bursting 
for  higher 
  Complies with PCI Express Base Specification 
multimedia bandwidth 
Revision 2.1. 
  Complies  with  USB2.0  FS-mode  Specification 
for Bluetooth. 
  PCIe LTR/L1.Off state supported. 
  USB Selective Suspend supported. 
Standards Supported 
  WiFi  Direct  supports  wireless  peer  to  peer 
applications 
Other Features 
  Supports  Wake-On-WLAN  via  Magic  Packet 
and Wake-up frame 
  Transmit Beamforming 
 
 
 
IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac compatible WLAN 
IEEE 802.11e QoS Enhancement (WMM) 
IEEE 802.11i (WPA, WPA2). Open, shared key, 
and pair-wise key authentication services 
  Support S3/S4 AES/TKIP group key update 
  Support Network List Offload     
  CCA  on 
secondary 
through  RTS/CTS 
handshake. 
 
IEEE 
802.11h  DFS,  TPC,  Spectrum 
  Support TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload 
Measurement 
Peripheral Interfaces 
 
IEEE 802.11k Radio Resource Measurement 
  Up to 15 General Purpose Input/Output pins. 
  WAPI 
(Wireless  Authentication  Privacy 
  Two configurable LED pins. 
Infrastructure) certified. 
MAC Features 
  Generates 40MHz clock for peripheral chip. 
  Single external power source 3.3V only. 
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  Crystal frequency support 40MHz 
  Build-in both 2.4GHz and 5GHz PA. 
PHY Features 
 
 
IEEE 802.11ac MIMO OFDM 
IEEE 802.11n MIMO OFDM 
  Build-in both 2.4GHz and 5GHz LNA. 
Bluetooth 
Bluetooth Controller 
  Two Transmit and Two Receive paths 
  Support Bluetooth 5.0 system 
  20MHz 
/ 
40MHz/ 
80MHz 
bandwidth 
  Compatible with Bluetooth v2.1+EDR 
transmission 
 
Integrated MCU to execute Bluetooth protocol 
  Support 2.4GHz and 5GHz band channels 
stack 
  Short Guard Interval (400ns) 
  Sounding packet 
  Supports  all  packet  types  in  basic  rate  and 
enhanced data rate 
  DSSS  with  DBPSK  and  DQPSK,  CCK 
  Supports Secure Simple Pairing 
modulation with long and short preamble 
  OFDM  with  BPSK,  QPSK,  16QAM,  64QAM 
  Enhanced  BT/WIFI  Coexistence  Control  to 
improve 
transmission  quality 
in  different 
and  256QAM  modulation.  Convolutional 
profiles 
Coding Rate: 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, and5/6. 
  Dual  Mode  support:  Simultaneous  LE  and 
  Maximum  data  rate  54Mbps 
in  802.11g, 
BR/EDR 
300Mbps in 11n and 866.7Mbps in 802.11ac. 
  Supports multiple Low Energy states 
  OFDM  /  DSSS  receive  diversity  with  MRC 
Bluetooth Transceiver 
using  up  to  2  receive  paths.  Switch  diversity 
  Fast AGC control to improve receiving dynamic 
used for CCK. 
  Support STBC. 
  Support LDPC. 
  Hardware antenna diversity. 
  Maximum-Likelihod Detection (MLD) 
range 
 
Integrated internal Class 1, Class 2, and Class 
3 PA 
  Supports Enhanced Power Control 
  Supports Bluetooth Low Energy 
  Fast receiver Automatic Gain Control (AGC) 
 
Integrated 
32K 
oscillator 
for 
power 
  On-chip ADC and DAC. 
 
 
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Revision History   
Document NO: R2-2375NF-DST-02 
                                                                                                                                                                                       
 
DCN NO. 
Description 
Initials 
Approved 
Version 
Revision 
Date 
Version0.1 
2018/11/30 
Version0.2 
2018/12/10 
 
 
Version0.3 
2019/1/10 
Version0.4 
2019/12/23 
 
 
A 
2020/6/1 
DCN016669 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Initial Version 
Shihhua Huang 
NC Chen 
1.  Modify chapter 3.3 info 
2.  Modify chapter 4.1 info 
Update Chapter 1.2 Features 
1. 
2.  Modify  block  diagram  antenna 
info 
3.  Modify chapter 1.4 info 
Shihhua Huang 
NC Chen 
Shihhua Huang 
NC Chen 
1.  Update 5 Packing Information 
Dionne Lin 
Patrick Lin 
  Modify to new format   
  Modify  chapter  3.3.1  and  3.3.3 
info 
Added  3.3.4  BT_DIS  Timing 
Sequence 
Shihhua Huang 
NC Chen 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Table of Contents 
                                                                                                                                                                                       
 
Revision History .............................................................................................................................. 4 
Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 5 
1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 6 
1.1 Product Overview .......................................................................................................................... 6 
1.2 Block Diagram ................................................................................................................................ 8 
1.3 Specifications Table ...................................................................................................................... 9 
1.3.1 General................................................................................................................................................... 9 
1.3.2 WLAN ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 
1.3.3 Bluetooth .............................................................................................................................................. 10 
1.3.4 Operating Conditions ......................................................................................................................... 11 
2. Pin Definition ............................................................................................................................. 12 
2.1 Pin Table ....................................................................................................................................... 12 
3. Electrical Characteristics ......................................................................................................... 15 
3.1 Recommended Operating Conditions ........................................................................................ 15 
3.2 Digital IO Pin DC Characteristics ................................................................................................ 15 
3.3 PCIE Interface .............................................................................................................................. 16 
3.3.1 Power up Timing Sequence .............................................................................................................. 16 
3.3.2 PCIE PERST# Timing Sequence ..................................................................................................... 17 
3.3.3 PCIE Power Off Sequence................................................................................................................ 18 
3.3.4 BT_DIS Timing Sequence ................................................................................................................. 19 
3.3.5 Platform State Transitions ................................................................................................................. 19 
3.4 Power Consumption* ................................................................................................................... 20 
3.4.1 WLAN ................................................................................................................................................... 20 
3.4.2 Bluetooth .............................................................................................................................................. 20 
4. Mechanical Information ............................................................................................................ 21 
4.1 Mechanical Drawing .................................................................................................................... 21 
5. Packaging Information ............................................................................................................. 22 
 
 
 
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1. Introduction 
1.1 Product Overview 
                                                                                                                                                                                       
 
AzureWave  Technologies,  Inc.  introduces  the  pioneer  of  the  IEEE  802.11  a/b/g/n/ac  WIFI  with 
Bluetooth 5.0 combo M.2 module --- AW-CB375NF. The AW-CB375NF is a highly integrated single-
chip that support 2-stream 802.11ac solutions with Multi-user MIMO (Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output) 
with Wireless LAN (WLAN) PCI Express network interface controller with integrated Bluetooth 5 USB 
interface controller. It combines a WLAN MAC, a 2T2R capable WLAN baseband, and RF in single 
chip.   
The  AW-CB375NF  baseband  implements  Multi-user  Multiple  Input,  Multiple  Output  (MU-
MIMO)Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) with two transmit and two receive paths 
(2T2R).Features include two spatial stream transmissions, short Guard Interval (GI) of 400ns, spatial 
spreading, and support for variant channel bandwidth. Moreover, AW-CB375NF provides one spatial 
stream space-time block code (STBC), Transmit Beamforming (TxBF) and Low Density Parity Check 
(LDPC)  to  extend  the range  of  transmission. At  the  receiver,  extended  range  and  good minimum 
sensitivity  is  achieved  by  having  receiver  diversity  up  to  2  antennas.  As  the  recipient,  the  AW-
CB375NF  also  supports  explicit  sounding  packet  feedback  that  helps  senders  with  beamforming 
capability. 
For legacy compatibility, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS), Complementary Code Keying 
(CCK)  and  OFDM  baseband  processing  are  included  to  support  all  IEEE  802.11b,  802.11g  and 
802.11a 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, 64QAM 
and 256QAM modulation of the individual subcarriers, and rate compatible coding rate of 1/2, 2/3, 
3/4, and 5/6, provide up to 866.7Mbps for IEEE 802.11ac MIMO OFDM. 
The RTL8822CE-CG 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. For better detection quality, receive diversity with Maximal-Ratio-
Combine  (MRC)  applying  up  to two  receive  paths,  and  Maximum-Likelihood  Detection  (MLD)  are 
implemented.  Robust  interference  detection  and  suppression  are  provided  to  protect  against 
Bluetooth,  cordless  phone,  and  microwave  oven  interference.  Receive  vector  diversity  for  multi-
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stream application is implemented for efficient utilization of the MIMO channel. Efficient IQ-imbalance, 
DC offset, phase noise, frequency offset, and timing offset compensations are provided for the radio 
frequency front-end. 
The  RTL8822CE-CG supports fast  receiver Automatic  Gain  Control  (AGC)  with  synchronous and 
asynchronous  control  loops  among  antennas,  antenna  diversity  functions,  and  adaptive  transmit 
power control functions to obtain better performance in the analog portions of the transceiver. 
The RTL8822CE-CG MAC supports 802.11e for multimedia applications, 802.11i and WAPI      for 
security,  and  802.11n/802.11ac  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, U-APSD, and MIMO power saving reduce 
the power wasted during idle time, and compensate for the extra power required to transmit MIMO 
OFDM.  The  RTL8822CE-CG  provides  simple 
legacy,  20MHz/40MHz/80MHz  co-existence 
mechanisms to ensure backward and network compatibility. 
 
 
 
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1.2 Block Diagram 
                                                                                                                                                                                       
 
 
 
AW-CB375NF BLOCK DIAGRAM 
 
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