AVRXXXX: RZ600-232 HW Manual
Features
Contains the Reference design for AT86RF232 Transceiver
Option of ordering Single Transceiver board, over ordering the entire set
found in the main RZ600 Kit.
Order as many of RZ600-232 Board alone as required.
Stub antenna included
AT32UC3A3256 based USB host boards orderable separately as
AVRRZ600-USB
Ideal for PC to RF gateways, packet sniffers and network commissioning
tools
On board ID chip for easy IEEE MAC address
1 Introduction
The AVRRZ600-232 Subkit is an evaluation kit for the Atmel AT86RF232 radio
frequency device. The box contains one Single RF232 2.4GHz board with the
required accessories (connectors and Antenna). These are highly acclaimed
networking devices within low power personal area networks. That being said;
this RZ600-232 radio board also sports an Atmel standardized 10-pin
connector that will enable the RF boards to be connected to any
AVR microcontroller. A wide range of the standard Atmel AVR design tools
have the host end of the standardized 10-pin connector – so as a customer of
Atmel, you are empowered to evaluate Atmel radio transceivers in virtually any
application segment. The RZ600-232 kit enables RF4CE, IEEE 802.15.4,
ZigBee® and 6lowPAN network technologies to run on the full Atmel portfolio of
low power AVR microcontrollers.
AVRRZ600-232
AVRRZ600-232
Hardware
User Manual
Figure 1-1. RZ600 HW Overview
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2 Related items
3 Overview
AVR32 Studio (Atmel’s free IDE)
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4116
AVR32 GNU Toolchain (Atmel’s free Compiler and Utilities)
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4118
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?tool_id=4279
FLIP 3.4.2(Flexible In System Programmer)
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3886
This section gives an overview of the RZ600-232 kit from a system perspective as
well as 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.
Figure 3-1 shows how the two processor boards (AVRRZ600-USB) paired with
the radio frequency boards (AVRRZ600-232) can form a wireless peer to peer data
connection over USB. The application that is pre programmed by Atmel on the
AT32UC3A3256 is indeed such a USB to RF gateway.
Figure 3-1 RZ600 used in conjunction with PC
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3.1 Kit contents
3.2 System Requirements
AVRRZ600-232
The RZ600-232 kit contains the following pieces of hardware:
1 unit AT86RF232 radio board: miniature carrier board with the AT86RF2 32
radio transceiver mounted, SMA antenna connector, one wire ID chip
and Atmel standard 10-pin connector.
1 pc. 2.4GHz SMA stub antenna
1 pc. Bag with wires and squid cable: The squid cable fits the radio
frequency boards and will enable wiring to a hardware that does not
contain the standard Atmel 10-pin accessory header.
Table 3-1 contains the minimum system requirements for the RZ600 kit when
connected to a PC for application development on the AT32UC3A3256
microcontroller.
Table 3-1 Minimum System Requirements
Parameter Value Comment
Hardware
PC/CPU Intel Pentium III or
better,800 MHz
PC/RAM 128 Mbytes
PC/Video 1024×768,SVGA
PC/Hard disk free space 200 Mbytes
On-Chip Debugger &
Programmer
Software
Operating System Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
IDE AVR 32 Studio or IAR
Programmer FLIP 3.4.2 Batch ISP command line
AVR JTAG ICE mkII or
AVR ONE!
Embedded Workbench for
Atmel AVR32
AVR JTAG ICE mkII or
AVR ONE! is required if
the user wishes to debug
and do custom application
development.
AVR 32 Studio with
compiler utilities or IAR
EWB is required for
application development
tool with FLIP 3.4.2 can be
used for reprogramming
the processor board
controller
3.3 Quick Start Guide
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RZ600 processor board – RZ600-USB is programmed for AT86RF231 radio boards in
the factory. For using the AT86RF232 transceiver boards, processor board needs to
be reprogrammed. Refer section “7.5.2 Bootloader Programming using BatchISP”
and “Table 6-1 Firmware layout” table for programming the processor board using
preprogrammed boot loader available on the processor board controller. The
following sequence is suggested when testing the evaluation application on the
RZ600-232 kit:
1. Unpack the kit and verify contents
2. Connect 2 RZ600-232 boards each to 2 RZ600-USB boards.
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3. Connect the RF Board to the appropriate antenna. Refer Section 4.3 for selecting
4. Insert the assembly into a free USB port on the computer.
5. Let the devi ces enumerate – they s hould become availa ble as two CDC virtua l
6. Open two terminal windows and start typing. Verify that the text in the two
4 Hardware Description
This chapter walks through the different pieces of hardware that you will find in the
RZ600 kit in greater detail.
4.1 Radio Frequency Board
AT86RF232: Third generation 2.4GHz IS M band radio trans ceiver with fro nt
ends for antenna diversity and external power amplifier and encryption
accelerators.
This board and the RZ600-230, 231, 212 radio transceivers share the same
printed circuit board with slightly different component values mounted for each of
them. See Figure 4-2 for full schematics of the radio frequency board.
proper antenna for the radio transceiver.
COM ports.
terminals is the same.
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4.2 Connectors
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There are two main connectors on the board; one is the female SMA antenna
connector and in the opposite direction of the board is a 10-pin dual row header. See
Table 4-1 for pin out of this header.
Table 4-1. Radio Frequency 10-pin header
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4.3 Crystal
4.4 RF Front End
There are also two single row headers on the board:
• J103 (Not mounted): Two pin header that can be soldered in to do current
measurement with an ampere meter. R105 must be unsoldered to enable this
feature.
• J104 (Not mounted): Three pin header that can be soldered in to access
the auxiliary (Miscellaneous) signals from the radio transceiver.
A high accuracy 16MHz crystal is mounted and used by the radio transceiver
for carrier frequency generation.
RZ600 radio boards shares a common layout across all the three transceivers
AT86RF212, AT86RF230, AT86RF231. For the schematic given in Figure 4-2
differences in bill of Material are as given in the Table 4-2.
Table 4-2 BoM Variants
BoM Variants
Part
U101 AT86RF232 AT86RF231 AT86RF230 AT86RF212
R101 0 ohm DNI 0 ohm DNI
R103 0 ohm DNI 0 ohm DNI
R107 DNI DNI 0 ohm DNI
R112 DNI DNI 0 ohm DNI
RF232 RF231 RF230 RF212
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L102 2450FB15L0001 2450FB15L0001 2450FB15L0001 0896FB15A0100E
R102 0 ohm 0 ohm 0 ohm 100pF
R104 0 ohm 0 ohm 10k 0 ohm
*DNI -Do not Install Component
Since the output from the radio transceiver itself is a balanced signal pair, a balun is
needed to transform into a 50Ohm single ended signal fed to the SMA
connector.
The Johanson Technology recommends 2450FB15L0001 Balun which is optimized
for AT86RF232 for radio designs using this Transceiver.
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Figure 4-2 Radio Frequency Board
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4.5 Cables
There are two different cable types available in the RZ600 kit
• Squid Cable:
• Single Wire:
5 Connecting Radio Board to Custom Board
The radio frequency boards found as part of this kit can be used stand alone as well
as in conjunction with the processor board. Table 4-1 shows the pinout of the
standardized 10-pin bus that is defined between the two unit. However, it is possible
to add the radio frequency board to any routing as long as the required signals are
available. This is possible due to the radio frequency board being able to be mounted
on the squid cable included in this kit. With this squid cable it is possible to route all
10 signals down onto a custom hardware. The reminder of this chapter shows a few
examples on how to wire these signals.
AVRRZ600-232
5.1 Default Supported Kits
5.1 Default Supported Kits
Besides from being used on the processor boards the radio frequency board can be
attached to wide range of Atmel evaluation and starter kits. The following kits
are supported directly. If you do not find your preferred kit here, please take a
look at section 5.2.
Table 5-1. Plug and Play Kits
5.2 Squid Cable
There are two squid cables (10pin male header to single wires) included in
the kit. The intended use of this special cable assembly is to plug the radio frequency
board
onto it, and connect the ten single wires to any hardware platform that does not have
the standard auxiliary connector available.
Table 5-2. Squid Cable Pinout
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