# 🔧 Preparations

Angle of Arrival BoosterPack™

The Angle of Arrival BoosterPack™ kit (BOOSTXL-AOA) was used for this project. This page contains images and text from Texas Instruments developer hub. For the original documentation and sources please refer to the Ti developer hub.

From dev.ti.com

# Configuration for external antenna

To connect the CC2640R2 LaunchPad to an external antenna, the capacitor C51 must be moved. The pictures below show the relocation.

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PCB antenna	External antenna

# Mounting

Next the LaunchPad is connected to the BOOSTXL-AOA with the supplied JSC cable. All 40 BOOSTXL-AOA pins must be connected to the 40 LaunchPad pins.

BoostXL-AOA connected

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The hardware setup is now ready for development!

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