ATMEL A091563 User Manual

AT86RF231 Radio Board

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Features

Contains AT86RF231 radio transceiver.

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Covers the 2.4GHz ISM band.

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• On board ID chip for easy IEEE MAC address

1 Introduction

AT86RF231 Radio Board contains AT86RF231 radio transceiver.

It is highly acclaimed networking devices within low power personal area
networks.
connector that will enable the Radio board to be connected to ATMEL

microcontroller
transceivers in virtually any application segment.

Figure 1-1.

The AT86RF231 Radio Board sports an Atmel standardized 10-pin

– so as a customer you will be able

AT86RF231 Radio Board HW Overview

to evaluate Atmel radio

Microcontrollers

Application Note

2 Related Items

3 Overview

AVR32 Studio (Atmel’s free IDE)

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4116

GNU Toolchain (Atmel’s free Compiler and Utilities)

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?too

JTAGICE mkII (On-chip programming and debugging tool)

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3353

AVR ONE! (On-chip programming and debugging tool)

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?too

This section gives an overview of the Radio Board from a system perspective and
what the kit contains and its minimum requirements. A set of condensed instructions
are then given on how to get the evaluation application for the kit up and running in
the shortest time possible.

AT86RF231 radio board: miniature carrier board with the AT86RF231 radio

transceiver mounted, SMA antenna connector, one wire ID chip and Atmel
standard 10-pin connector.

Figure 3-1 shows how the two processor boards paired with the radio frequency
boards also available in the kit can form a wireless peer to peer data connection over
USB.

Figure 3-1 AT86RF231 Radio Board used in conjuntion with PC

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Processor Board

AT86RF231 Radio Board

RF Link

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AVR600

4 Hardware Description

This chapter describes the hardware about AT86RF231 Radio Board.

AVR600

AT86RF231 Radio Transceiver:

Second generation 2.4GHz ISM band radio transceiver with front

ends for antenna diversity and external power amplifier and encryption

accelerators.

Figure 4-1 Radio Board Overview

SMA con

GND

MISC signal

selector

Current sens

10 pin con

MISC signal

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