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USER MANUAL
Wi-Fi (11a/b/g/n/ac 2Tx2R) + BT (V4.1 LE) SDIO Combo Module
WCBN4503M
Marvell 88w8897
Version 1.3
Change History
Update Transmit Output Power
Update
- Change Pin13 to NC, using internal 1.8V
Update Connector SPEC
- Remove Sponge and Heat Shrink tubing
* This document contains confidential proprietary information and is property of LTC. The contents of
this document should not be disclosed to unauthorized persons without the written consent of LTC.

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USER MANUAL
Wi-Fi (11a/b/g/n/ac 2Tx2R) + BT (V4.1 LE) SDIO Combo Module
WCBN4503M
Marvell 88w8897
Version 1.3
Networking B.U.
Lite-on Technology Corporation
4F, No. 90, Chien I Rd.,
Chung Ho, New Taipei City 235, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Customer Approval: (Signature)
(Title)
(Company)
(Date)
(Please Sign Back by FAX. For Confirming the Spec Only, not an Official Agreement for OEM/ODM Business)

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CONTENT
PRODUCT FEATURES ....................................................................................................................4
BT FEATURE: ......................................................................................................................................... 4
WI-FI FEATURE:.....................................................................................................................................4
COMMON FEATURE................................................................................................................................ 4
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS ........................................................................................................ 5
MAIN CHIPSET ....................................................................................................................................... 5
FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATIONS ............................................................................................................... 5
RECOMMENDED OPERATION CONDITIONS..........................................................................7
PIN ASSIGNMENT............................................................................................................................ 8
CONNECTOR SPEC ......................................................................................................................... 8
POWER-UP SEQUENCE TIMING ................................................................................................. 9
MECHANICAL .................................................................................................................................. 9
ANTENNA SPEC ............................................................................................................................. 10
WI-FI ANTENNA (Q’TY: 2PCS) ............................................................................................................. 10
WI-FI ANTENNA PHOTO....................................................................................................................... 11
BT ANTENNA(Q’TY: 1PCS) ..................................................................................................................12
BT ANTENNA PHOTO ........................................................................................................................... 13
EEPROM INFORMATION ............................................................................................................ 14
BT........................................................................................................................................................ 14
WI-FI ................................................................................................................................................... 14
ENVIRONMENTAL ........................................................................................................................ 14
OPERATING .......................................................................................................................................... 14
STORAGE..............................................................................................................................................14

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PRODUCT FEATURES
BT FEATURE:
l Bluetooth V4.1 LE system
Backwards compatible with BT version of 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1and 3.0+HS
l Support Dual-mode Bluetooth
l BT using SDIO interface
l BT transmission speed including 1M (GFSK), 2M (π/4-DQPSK) and 3Mbps
(8DPSK) EDR and up to 54Mbps (Physical Rate) High Speed operations
l Support for Simple Pairing (SP) and Enhanced Inquiry Response (EIR) function
l Support master and slave piconet and scatternet
l Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) using Packet Loss Rate (PLR)
l Enhanced low power scan mode
WI-FI FEATURE:
l Operate at ISM frequency Band (2.4/5GHz)
l IEEE Standards Support, 802.11a,802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n and 802.11ac
l Support for both 20 MHz/40 MHz channel width in 2.4GHz and 20 MHz/40
MHz/80MHz channel width in 5GHz
l Support SDIO 3.0 interface, 4-bit SDIO transfer modes at full clock range up to
208MHz
l Enterprise level security supporting: WEP, WPA, WPA2, WAPI
l Dual-stream IEEE 802.11n support for 20MHz and 40MHz channels provides
PHY layer rates up to 300Mbps
l Dual-stream IEEE 802.11ac support for 80MHz channels provides PHY layer
rates up to 867Mbps
l Support Wi-Fi Direct
l Support Wake On WLAN
COMMON FEATURE
l Support for BT & WLAN Co-existence
l Support Linux OS based
l RoHS compliance
l Low Halogen compliance

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PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
MAIN CHIPSET
Marvell 88w8897
FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATIONS
≤ Output Power ≤ +10 ; Class I Device
IEEE802.11a; IEEE802.11b; IEEE 802.11g; IEEE 802.11n,
IEEE 802.11ac
a/g:
54, 48, 36, 24, 18, 12, 9, 6 Mbps
MCS 0 to 15 for HT20MHz
MCS 0 to 15 for HT40MHz
ac:
MCS 0 to 8 for HT20MHz
MCS 0 to 9 for HT40MHz
a/g:
64QAM, 16QAM, QPSK, BPSK
:
64QAM, 16QAM, QPSK, BPSK
256QAM, 64QAM, 16QAM, QPSK, BPSK

Ad-hoc mode (Peer-to-Peer)
Infrastructure mode
11: (Ch. 1-11) – United States
13: (Ch. 1-13) – Europe
14: (Ch. 1-14) – Japan
12: United States
19: Europe
14 dBm@6Mbps
14 dBm@54Mbps
15 dBm@1Mbps
15 dBm@11Mbps
14 dBm@6Mbps
14 dBm@54Mbps
(2.4GHz):
20MHz:
13 dBm@MCS0
13 dBm@MCS7
40MHz:
13 dBm@MCS0
13 dBm@MCS7
(5GHz):
20MHz:
11 dBm@MCS0
11 dBm@MCS7
40MHz:
10 dBm@MCS0
10 dBm@MCS7
1ac:
20MHz:
11 dBm@MCS0
11 dBm@MCS8
40MHz:
10 dBm@MCS0
10
8
10 dBm@MCS9
80MHz:
8 dBm@MCS0
8 dBm@MCS8
-86 dBm@6Mbps
-70 dBm@54Mbps
-88 dBm@1Mbps
-82 dBm@11Mbps