Atmel: ATAVRRZRAVEN 2.4 GHz Evaluation and Starter kit

atomar — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:45:02 GMT

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Kit Overview

The Atmel's ATAVRRZRAVENATAVRRZRAVEN 2.4GHz evaluation and starter kit speeds development, debugging, and demonstration of a wide range of low-power IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, and ZigBee wireless network applications.The ATAVRRZRAVEN is a development kit for the AT86RF230AT86RF230 radio transceiver and the AVR microcontroller.

It serves as a versatile and professional platform for developing and debugging a wide range of RF applications; spanning from: simple point-to-point communication through full blown sensor networks with numerous nodes running complex communication stacks. On top of this, the kit provides a nice human interface, which spans from PC connectivity, through LCD and audio input and output.

The ATAVRRZRAVENATAVRRZRAVEN kit is built around three main components; the hardware itself, the firmware running in the RZUSBSTICK and AVRRAVENs, and the AVR Wireless Services PC suite. The AVRRAVEN hardware is based on 2 microcontroller and one radio transceiver chip.

The ATmega3290PATmega3290P handles the sensors and the user interface and the ATmega1284PATmega1284P handles the AT86RF230AT86RF230 radio transceiver and the RF protocol stacks. Two AVR microcontrollers are found on the AVRRAVEN module. An ATmega1284P is connected to the AT86RF230 radio transceiver, and an ATmega3290P is driving the LCD.Both these devices are selected from the AVR picoPower family, that ensures minimal power consumption and operation down to 1.8 Volts. Universal Synchronous and Asynchronous serial Receiver and Transmitter (USART) is used as an inter processor communication bus.

The AT86RF230AT86RF230 Low-power 2.4GHz transceiver designed for low cost IEEE802.15.4, ZigBee, RF4CE, SP100, WirelessHART™ and ISM applications. It is a true SPI-to-antenna solution providing a complete radio transceiver interface between the antenna and the microcontroller.It comprises the analog radio transceiver and the digital demodulation including time and frequency synchronization, and data buffering. All RF-critical components are integrated on a single chip minimizing the number of required external components to the antenna, crystal and decoupling capacitors. The bidirectional differential antenna pins, used for transmission and reception, eliminate the need for an external antenna switch.

Key Applications: Building Automation, Home Appliances, Home Entertainment, Industrial Automation, Lighting, Metering and Mobile Electronics.

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Development Tools

Software Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
IDE	Atmel	Atmel Studio 6	ALL AVR	Atmel Studio 6 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the integrated development environment (IDE) for developing and debugging Atmel ARM® Cortex™-M and Atmel AVR® microcontroller (MCU) based applications. The Atmel Studio 6 IDE gives you a seamless and easy-to-use environment to write, build and debug your applications written in C/C++ or assembly code. Learn More
RTOS	Micrium	Micrium uc/OSIII	AVR / AVR32	μC/OS-III is Micrium’s newest RTOS, designed for developers who need to save time on their current and next embedded sytem projects. Learn More
RTOS	Segger	embOS	AVR32	SEGGER embOS (Real Time Operating System) follows strict, yet efficient coding and documentation standards. embOS is a priority-controlled real time operating system, designed to be used as foundation for the development of embedded real-time applications. Learn More

Tool Type

Supplier

MPN

Supported Family

Description

IDE

Atmel

Atmel Studio 6

ALL AVR

Atmel Studio 6 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the integrated development environment (IDE) for developing and debugging Atmel ARM® Cortex™-M and Atmel AVR® microcontroller (MCU) based applications. The Atmel Studio 6 IDE gives you a seamless and easy-to-use environment to write, build and debug your applications written in C/C++ or assembly code. Learn More

RTOS

Micrium

Micrium uc/OSIII

AVR / AVR32

μC/OS-III is Micrium’s newest RTOS, designed for developers who need to save time on their current and next embedded sytem projects. Learn More

RTOS

Segger

embOS

AVR32

SEGGER embOS (Real Time Operating System) follows strict, yet efficient coding and documentation standards. embOS is a priority-controlled real time operating system, designed to be used as foundation for the development of embedded real-time applications. Learn More

Hardware Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
Debuggers, Emulators & JTAG Tools	Atmel	ATAVRDRAGONATAVRDRAGON	AVR UC3 / AVR XMEGA / megaAVR / tinyAVR	AVR Dragon JTAG Debugger Starter Kit for for 8-bit and 32-bit AVR devices
Debuggers, Emulators & JTAG Tools	Atmel	ATAVRONEKITATAVRONEKIT	AVR UC3 / AVR XMEGA / megaAVR / tinyAVR	AVR ONE! professional development tool for all Atmel 8-bit and 32-bit AVR devices
Debuggers, Emulators & JTAG Tools	Atmel	ATJTAGICE2ATJTAGICE2	AVR UC3 / AVR XMEGA / megaAVR / tinyAVR	AVR JTAGICE mkII mid-range development tool for Atmel 8-bit and 32-bit AVR devices
Debuggers, Emulators & JTAG Tools	Atmel	ATAVRISP2ATAVRISP2	AVR XMEGA / megaAVR / tinyAVR	AVRISP mkII Programmer for field upgrades of Atmel 8-bit AVR microcontrollers with ISP or PDI interfaces

Technical Documents

Learning Center

Type	Description
User Guide	Atmel: Quick Start Guidefor RZRAVEN Kit
User Guide	Atmel: User Guide for RZRAVEN Dev Kit
User Guide	Atmel: User Guide for AVR2050 Microcontroller
User Guide	Atmel: User Guide for AVR 8-bit and 32-bit Microcontrollers
User Guide	Atmel: User Guide for BitCloud SerialNet AVR2051 Microcontroller
User Guide	Atmel: AVR and AVR32 - Quick Reference Guide
Application Note	Atmel: Application Note for AT86RF230 Software Programming Model

Design Elements

Type	Description

Video

Video 1	Video 2
www.youtube.com/watch	www.youtube.com/watch

Kit Features

Development kit for the AT86RF230AT86RF230 radio transceiver and AVR® microcontroller.
CE, ETSI and FCC approved.
LCD module (AVRRAVEN):
- AT86RF230 radio transceiver with high gain PCB antenna.
- Dual AVR microcontrollers.
- Dynamic Speaker and microphone.
- Atmel Serial Dataflash®.
- User IO section:
USART
GPIO
Relay Driver
- Powered by battery or external supply:
5V to 12V external supply.
USB module (RZUSBSTICK):
- AT86RF230 radio transceiver with miniature PCB antenna.
- AVR microcontroller with integrated Full Speed USB interface.
- External memory interface.

Kit Contents

The Atmel's ATAVRRZRAVENATAVRRZRAVEN Kit contains:

Two AVR Raven boards (AVRRAVEN) with 2.4 GHz transceiver
On board picoPower AVR application processors and LCD display
One USB stick (AVRRZUSBSTICK) with a 2.4 GHz transceiver for USB connection to your PC.
PC software package for wireless network setup, control, analysis, and over-the-air programming.

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