NXP Laboratories UK JN5168U0 User Manual

DR1198 JN5168 USB Dongle

Reference Manual

JN-RM-2065

Revision 1.0

17-Dec-2012

DR1198 JN5168 USB Dongle

Reference Manual

Contents

About this Manual 3

Organisation 3
Conventions 3
Acronyms and Abbreviations 3
Related Documents 3

1 Introduction 4

1.1 Overview 4

1.2 Features 5

1.3 Reference Design 5

2 Hardware Overview 6

2.1 Dongle Layout 6

2.2 Dongle Block Diagram 6

2.3 FT232L Device 6

2.4 JN5168 Device 6

2.5 LEDs 7

2.6 32-kHz Crystal Oscillator 7

3 Programming 8
4 Compliance Statements & Documentation 9

4.1 FCC Statements and Documentation 9

4.1.1 Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement 9

4.1.2 WARNING! 9
FCC Radiation Exposure Statement: 9

4.1.3 FCC Declaration of Conformity 10

4.2 Industry Canada Statement 11

4.3 European R & TTE Directive 1999/5/EC Statement 11

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DR1198 JN5168 USB Dongle
Reference Manual

About this Manual

This manual provides a detailed reference for NXP’s DR1198 JN5168 USB
Dongle. The manual is part of the reference design JN-RD-6039. This USB
Dongle provides an easy way of communicating with the NXP JN5168 wireless
microcontroller from a USB connection. With suitable embedded software
running on the JN5168 device, the dongle can then communicate with an IEEE

802.15.4, JenNet-IP or ZigBee PRO network.

Organisation

This manual consists of 4 chapters, as follows:

 Chapter 1 outlines the features and functions of the USB dongle
 Chapter 2 provides a hardware overview
 Chapter 3 describes programming the JN5168 device on the dongle
 Chapter 4 contains compliance statements and documentation

Conventions

Files, folders, functions and parameter types are represented in bold type.
Function parameters are represented in italics type.
Code fragments are represented in the Courier typeface.

Acronyms and Abbreviations

BOM Bill Of Materials
DIO Digital Input/Output
PCB Printed Circuit Board
SDK Software Developer’s Kit
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB Universal Serial Bus

Related Documents

JN-DS-JN5168 JN5168 Data Sheet

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DR1198 JN5168 USB Dongle

Reference Manual

1 Introduction

This manual provides a detailed reference for the DR1198 JN5168 USB Dongle,
supplied with JN516x EK001 evaluation kit. The dongle provides a platform for
hardware development environment for wireless microcontroller applications with
a USB interface.

1.1 Overview

The DR1198 JN5168-001-U00 Dongle provides an easy way of interfacing a
host machine (such as a PC) to a wireless network based on the IEEE802.15.4,

JenNet-IP, ZigBee Light Link, ZigBee Smart Energy and RF4CE
networking applications. The dongle incorporates the NXP JN5168 wireless

microcontroller, allowing a direct USB connection between the host machine and
the JN5168 device, which then provides the radio interface to the wireless
network.

Typical uses of the dongle include:

 A complete and stable hardware environment for the development of

IEEE802.15.4, JenNet-IP, ZigBee Light Link, ZigBee Smart Energy
and RF4CE networking applications, facilitating an accelerated time-

to-market for wireless network products

 The basis of a packet sniffer for IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless

communications

 A means of integrating the host machine into a wireless network, typically

as the network Co-ordinator

The small-footprint PCB of the dongle provides all the necessary components for
a wireless microcontroller with access to a USB connection. All RF layout and
decoupling issues are handled by the design of this dongle. Therefore, this
design is ready for application development without the necessity of hardware
development.

The dongle is shown below.

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