Evaluation Kit Atmel RZRAVEN
The RZRAVEN is a development kit for the AT86RF230 radio transceiver and the AVR microcontroller.
Detailed Description
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 RZRAVEN kit comprises two AVR Raven boards (AVRRAVEN) with 2.4 GHz transceiver, on board picoPower AVR application processors and LCD display, and one USB stick (AVRRZUSBSTICK) with a 2.4 GHz transceiver for USB connection to your PC.
The AVRRAVEN hardware is based on 2 microcontroller and one radio transceiver chip. The ATmega3290P handles the sensors and the user interface and the ATmega1284P handles the AT86RF230 radio transceiver and the RF protocol stacks. The MCUs and the radio communicate via serial interfaces. The LCD found on the AVRRAVEN module is a full custom 160-segment display tailored for the RZRAVEN kit (See Figure 3-2 for a quick reference). It contains a 7 segments text area; four segment number area and numerous handy symbols. In particular pay attention to the bird looking symbol.
The AVR RZUSBSTICK hardware is based a USB microcontroller and a radio transceiver chip. The AT90USB1287 microcontroller handles the USB interface, the AT86RF230 radio transceiver and the RF protocol stacks.
Features
- Development kit for the AT86RF230 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.
AVRRAVEN and USB module (RZUSBSTICK) Schematic diagram
Other Names:
ATAVRRZRAVEN RZRAVEN, ATAVRRZRAVEN RZRAVEN
