WIRELESS WL532

The WL532 is a low-power, high-performance, plug-and-play OOK RF receiver featuring a wide input voltage range of 2.5V–5.5V, sensitivity up to -112dBm, an operating frequency band of 300–480MHz, and support for data rates of 1–5Kbps. Housed in an SOP-8 package, the device requires only an antenna-side impedance matching network, VDD decoupling capacitor, CTH, and AGC filter capacitors in the application circuit — no anti-overshoot resistor is needed on the VDD line, reducing overall application cost. The WL532 integrates an LNA, mixer, image-rejection bandpass filter, IF amplifier, peak detector, low-pass filter, AGC circuit, data output comparator, crystal oscillator circuit, PLL, voltage reference and bias circuitry, and logic control circuit, forming a fully integrated receiver with mixed-signal architecture. The RF input signal enters the LNA via the antenna and matching network, then undergoes mixing, filtering, and amplification to complete the downconversion from RF to IF. The crystal oscillator employs a negative-resistance oscillator topology; connecting an appropriate external crystal provides an accurate reference clock. The relationship between the actual operating frequency and the crystal frequency is given by: F_XTAL = (13.52127 / 433.92) × F_RF. The AGC circuit monitors the envelope signal amplitude at the output of the low-pass filter and adjusts the gain to maintain stable system gain linearity and high-performance sensitivity. A filter capacitor connected externally to the CAGC pin determines the chip startup time. The demodulator uses a peak detector and low-pass filter to perform envelope demodulation of the modulated signal. An appropriately selected external data filter capacitor converts the demodulated envelope signal into a stable mid-level signal, which is compared against the envelope signal to produce accurately demodulated data, completing the decoding function.

• Frequency range: 300 - 480MHz
• Receive sensitivity: -112dBm (1Kbps)
• Data rate range: 1 - 5Kbps
• Voltage range: 2.5V – 5.5V
• Low power consumption: 5.3mA @ 3.3V (315MHz)
• SOP8 package

• Remote control systems
• Remote-controlled alarms
• Wireless lighting control systems
• Remote-controlled access control systems