Old selection guide for BLE components and modules

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Introduction

The official link of STM where can be found in both the BT Classic (3.x) that the new BT 4.x or BTLE (components and modules) is this.

BT technology

Up to now there are different release of BT, for example there is the Classic BT v2.1, v3.0 and there is the new BTLE v.4.x
For see the differences from the different release of BT see here and here.
Here I want to highlight the differences from BT, BLE Smart Ready, BLE Smart, etc (see below).

Very important is that with the BTLE is not necessary use the Apple Crypto Chip for release the APP for iOS.

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  • BT Classic (Version 3.x only modules)
    •  Modules
      • 0DP2 Bluetooth v.3.0 Class2 – iAP2
      • 0DP1 Bluetooth v.3.0 Class1 – iAP2
    • Evaboard for IoT application (bridge WiFi, Sub1GHz and BT classic) is the: STEVAL-IDI004V2

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  • BTLE (Versioni 4.x)
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    • Components
      • BlueNRG  Bluetooth Low Energy wireless Network Processor BTLE v.4.0
          
        • The evaboards are:
          • X-NUCLEO-IDB04A1 Bluetooth low energy expansion board based on BlueNRG for STM32 Nucleo
          • STEVAL-IDB002V1 Bluetooth ® SMART board based on the BlueNRG low energy network processor
          • STEVAL-IDB003V1 a BlueNRG IC based Bluetooth® Smart USB dongle
      • BlueNRG-1 Bluetooth Low Energy System On Chip (BTLE v.4.2)
        The BlueNRG-1 extends the features of award-winning BlueNRG network processor, enabling the usage of the embedded Cortex M0 for running the user application code.  
        • The evaboard is:
        • See this video and also this (GUI explanations).
      • BlueNRG-2 – Bluetooth Low Energy System On Chip ( v.4.2 and compliance with Bluetooth smart v5.0)
        The BlueNRG-1 extends the features of award-winning BlueNRG network processor, enabling the usage of the embedded Cortex M0 for running the user application code.  
      • BlueNRG-MS Bluetooth Low Energy Network Processor supporting (BTLE v.4.1)
        • The evaboard are:
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      • SPBTLE-RF – Based on Embedded BlueNRG component.
        The SPBTLE-RF is an easy to use Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) master/slave network processor module, compliant with Bluetooth v4.1.
        The SPBTLE-RF module supports multiple roles simultaneously, and can act at the same time as BLE sensor and hub device.  
        • The evaboard is: X-CORE-IDB05A1 Bluetooth Low Energy expansion board based on SPBTLE-RF module.
          There are a lot of examples ready to use on STM32.
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      • SPBTLE-RF0  – Based on Embedded BlueNRG-MS component
        The SPBTLE-RF0 is an easy to use Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) network processor module, compliant with Bluetooth v4.1.
        The SPBTLE-RF0 module supports multiple roles simultaneously, and can act at the same time as BLE master and slave device.
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      • See here to know the main differences from SPBTLE-RF to SPBTLE-RF0
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      • SPBTLE-1S –  SPBTLE-1 low power module for Bluetooth v.4.2 Smart (BTLE v.4.2)
        This module is based on BlueNRG-1 , enabling the usage of the embedded Cortex M0 for running the user application code.
        See this presentation.
         
        • The evaluationboard is: STEVAL-IDB007V1M Bluetooth Low Energy based on BlueNRG-2, enabling the usage of the embedded Cortex M0 for running the user application code

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  • SDK & DK tools permit to test/configure the BLE eva board using a GUI interface.

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