ZFSM-201-KIT-1 CALIFORNIA EASTERN LABS, ZFSM-201-KIT-1 Datasheet
ZFSM-201-KIT-1
Specifications of ZFSM-201-KIT-1
ZFSM-201-KIT-1 Summary of contents
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... Free Star Pro Series ZFSM-201-KIT-1 Development Kit User's Guide ZFSM-201-1 FreeStar Pro Module Document # 0006-00-08-00-000 (Rev B) ...
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... INTRODUCTION .............................................................................. 4 1.1 KIT DESCRIPTION ...................................................................................... 4 1.2 ZFSM-201-KIT-1 CONTENTS ...................................................................... 5 1.2.1 Optional Hardware and Software ........................................................................ 5 1.3 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS .................................................................... 6 2 HARDWARE OVERVIEW ................................................................ 6 2.1 ZFSM-201-EVB-1 OVERVIEW .................................................................... 6 2.2 DESCRIPTION OF THE MAJOR COMPONENTS – ZFSM-201-EVB-1....... 7 2.2.1 Input Power: ........................................................................................................ 7 ...
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... Range Tab ......................................................................................................... 22 4.4.4 Settings Tab ....................................................................................................... 23 4.4.5 Low Power Tab .................................................................................................. 24 4.4.6 Transceiver Info Tab .......................................................................................... 25 4.4.7 GPIO Tab ........................................................................................................... 26 4.4.8 ED Tab............................................................................................................... 27 5 DEMONSTRATION USING TEST TOOLS ..................................... 27 5.1 PREREQUISITE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ..................................... 27 5.2 ...
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... INTRODUCTION This document is the user guide for the California Eastern Laboratories (CEL) FreeStar Pro Evaluation Kit, (ZFSM-201-KIT-1). The kit is a collection of hardware and software assembled to allow a customer to design a remote sensing, AMR/AMI, home and building automation, industrial control, or security application. 1.1 KIT DESCRIPTION The main component in the Evaluation Kit is the ZFSM201-EVB-1 FreeStar Pro Evaluation Board ...
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... Transmitting and receiving on the UART Using low power modes Reading and writing to Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Reading Analog to Digital Converters Using GPIOs 1.2 ZFSM-201-KIT-1 CONTENTS Qty Part Number 3 ZFSM-201-EVB-1 2 94611-6 2.0 ver. A-B M Any 10 3M 929955-06 (0.1" SHUNT JUMPER) ...
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... ZFSM-201-EVB-1 Evaluation Board SMAC Programmers Guide ZFSM-201-EVB-1 Evaluation Board BeeKit™ Porting Guide ZFSM-201-EVB-1 Evaluation Board MAC Programmers Guide ZFSM-201-KIT-1 Wireless UART Application User Guide ZFSM-201-KIT-1, ZFSM-201-EVB-1 Erratum Note: The CEL documents listed above are included on the CEL CD. 2 HARDWARE OVERVIEW 2 ...
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... Figure 1 – Photo, ZFSM-201-EVB-1 Evaluation Board (top view) 2.2 DESCRIPTION OF THE MAJOR COMPONENTS – ZFSM-201-EVB-1 2.2.1 Input Power: The device can be powered using any of three different methods: Through the USB Port [J6] using the supplied USB cable Through the DC Jack [J7] using an optional DC Power Supply ...
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JTAG Port [J1 20-pin]: The JTAG port is used for debugging applications and loading firmware using the IAR Embedded Workbench® IDE program. 2.2.6 Variable Resistors [VR1 & VR2]: The onboard potentiometers are connected to the Analog to Digital Converter ...
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... ANTENNA located at the end of this document. 2.2.16 GPIO Jumpers [J13 40-pin, J14 40-pin, J15 40-pin]: Three 40-pin jumper connectors provide access to the I/O pins of the ZFSM-201-1 FreeStar Pro module and as a result to most of the I/O pins of the Freescale MC13224V device. Table 7 below shows the connections made by each jumper for each of the three connectors J13, J14 and J15 as shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 – ...
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... The pin number on the Freescale MC13224V of the function listed. 2 The pin number on the CEL ZFSM-201-1 Free Star Pro Module of the function listed. 3 The dark gray color in the Connector Pins columns designates that a Jumper was in place at this location at shipment and should be in place for normal operation. ...
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Connection to the Module/IC Pin # GPIO Description Mod UART1 Clear to Send Output UART1 Request to Send Input UART2 Data Output UART2 ...
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... Receiver board stops blinking. However, more effective range demonstrations are described later on in this document (Section 5.3 and 5.4). 3.2 ADC DEMONSTRATION This demonstration requires only one powered ZFSM-201-EVB-1 evaluation board required. 1) Locate the two Variable Resistors (VR1 and VR2) on the board. Rev B Document No ...
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... Installation Insert the CD into the drive and double-click the ‘setup.exe’ file in the directory \ZFSM- 201\Tools\FSPTT v1.5\ for the SMAC and/or MAC demo. 1) The installer will launch automatically. Follow the instructions to install the program. 2) When the installation is complete, a shortcut to the program will be created on the desktop. Double click the shortcut to open the FreeStar Pro Test Tool program ...
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Figure 3 – Screen, FreeStar Pro Test Tool (Opening) 4.2 GUI SCREEN DESCRIPTIONS Please refer to Figure 3 to become familiar with the screen location of each of the following areas, commands, and functions: 4.2.1 Menu Items The major commands ...
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... Low Power (Section 4.4.5): Allows the user to put the evaluation board into various Sleep modes for testing; enables the on-chip Buck Regulator (a hardware change is needed also) See “ZFSM-201-KIT-1, ZFSM-201-EVB-1 Errata” (CEL Doc #0006-00-08-04-000) for further information on the Buck Regulator. ...
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... Note strongly recommended that the USB cable be plugged directly into the PC and not through a USB Hub to avoid COM port conflicts. The first time a ZFSM-201-EVB-1FreeStar Pro Evaluation Board is connected to a computer, the PC will install virtual serial port drivers and a COM port number will be assigned to the evaluation board ...
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Click on the ‘Ports (COM & LPT)’ label or expand the tree by clicking the ‘+’ sign. The COM ports in the system will be displayed as shown in Figure shown in Figure 5, the COM ...
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Figure 7 – Screen, Device Manager – COM Port Setting 8) Click the ‘COM Port Number’ drop down menu and select a COM Port (not in use) between 1 and 16 as shown in Figure 7. Note: If all COM ...
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Figure 9 – Screen, Test Tool – Port & Baud Rate Settings 2) The default baud rate should be set correctly at ‘19,200’ baud. Check that the correct serial port is identified and click ‘OK’. The status bar should appear ...
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... DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MAC TEST TOOLS Eight different tools are available in the Free Star Pro Test Tool program provided on the CEL CD and are shown as Tabs in the program’s opening screen. 4.4.1 RF Evaluation Tab The RF Evaluation Tab is used to set the module to run in different modes for RF Evaluation Tests, commonly used for FCC certification or other RF evaluation. Figure 12 – ...
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Figure 13 – Screen, Test Tool – PERT Test 4.4.2.1 PERT Setup Section Data: The message to be sent (thirteen 1-byte fields). Source Address: The ‘Transceiver ID’ of the evaluation board being used as the transmitter. Dest ...
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Range Tab The test under this tab will set up a transmission (single or continuous) between two evaluation boards, and measure the Link Quality Indication parameter for their communications link. Figure 14 – Screen, Test Tool – Range Test ...
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Receiver Section Data: The message being received; it should agree with the Transmit ‘Data’. Source Address: The ‘Transceiver ID’ of the evaluation board being used as the transmitter. RX’s LQI: The Link Quality Indicator as measured ...
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Low Power Tab There are a variety of low power and wakeup options available on the MC13224V. The GUI allows the user to experiment with low power modes by placing the device into the selected low- power mode for ...
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Transceiver Info Tab Version and transceiver information can be obtained from this tab as seen in Figure 17. Figure 17 – Screen, Test Tool – Transceiver Info 4.4.6.1 Firmware Version Information The version information is updated when the ...
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... Clicking the ‘Set Outputs’ button will send a UART message to the ZFSM-201-EVB-1 evaluation board setting the selected GPIO to the state in the GUI. Clicking the ‘Query Outputs’ button will read the output level of the ZFSM-201-1 Module on the evaluation board and display the results in the GUI. ...
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... Figure 19 – Screen, Test Tool – ED Scan 5 DEMONSTRATION USING TEST TOOLS 5.1 PREREQUISITE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE Two ZFSM-201-EVB-1 FreeStar Pro Evaluation Boards One USB cable Two Type AA Batteries ...
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Mode A: One PC, Two Boards Connected Two evaluation boards connected to One PC (see Figure 20). 1) Open two sessions of the FreeStar Pro Test Tool on the same computer. Figure 20 – Diagram, Two sessions, one computer ...
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RANGE TEST The Range Tab (and the PERT Tab) can be used to determine the effect of separation of the two evaluation boards. For this demonstration, Mode C configuration (described in Section 5.2.3) is used in order to be ...
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Source’ area. 9) Set the (destination) ‘Dest Address’ to ‘2020’. 10) Select ‘Enable’ in the ‘ACK’s’ area and ‘Continuous’ in the ‘Rate’ area. If ACKs are enabled the Receiver will send back an acknowledgement message which contains the Receiver’s LQI. ...
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Figure 24 – Screen, Test Tool – Range TX 5.3.2 The Receiver Connected to the PC Alternately the board connected to the PC can be configured as a receiver. Follow steps 1), 2) and 3) in section 5.3.1. In the ...
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LQI’ numbers (that will fluctuate) ranging from 0 to 255. To the right of the LQI number will be an indicator “light” which will blink any of three colors following the same criteria as with the Transmit test. ...
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Figure 26 – Screen, Test Tool – PERT Demo 1) Connect one of the evaluation boards to the PC through a USB cable and power up the board. 2) Follow connection procedures given in Section 4.3.1 until the Status is ...
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Data in the Transmitter area. The four statistical fields should be zeros (‘0’). 9) Power up the Standalone board (using batteries supplied). (The standalone board may be separated from the Receiver to ...
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Range Test The SMAC software unlike the MAC does not handle ACK messages in the background. Thus it is possible to get a LQI message of an ACK message for transmitted messages, and this data is captured in the ...
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... BeeKit Porting Guide” (CEL Doc #0006-00-08-03-000) 7.2 ERASING FLASH MEMORY This section describes a hardware procedure for erasing the Flash memory of the ZFSM-201-1 Module. If using the Freescale Test Tool to upload firmware, the Flash memory must be erased prior to programming. 1) With power applied to the evaluation board, attach shorting jumpers to the ‘FLASH Erase Jumpers’ ...
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... Figure 31 – Screen, Freescale Test Tool – Opening Figure 32 – Screen, FSTT – Communication Settings 3) Click on the ‘Tools’ menu, and click on the ‘Communication Settings’ in the Pop-up as shown in Figure 32. An empty version of the screen in Figure 33 should appear. 4) Click on ‘Add Internal’. The screen in Figure 34 will appear. ...
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... If the ‘COM Port’ needs to be determined, the Test Tool program has a convenient link to Device Manager to do so. Notice (in Figure 32) that ‘Device Manager’ is just below ‘Communication Settings’ in the ‘Tools’ menu. Click on ‘Device Manager’ and follow the procedure in Section 4.3.1. Figure 35 – Screen, FSTT – Firmware Loader Figure 36 – ...
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... Figure 38 – Screen, FSTT – Selecting the binary File 7) Click the ‘Browse’ button and find the binary (.bin) file to load. The .bin file that was originally loaded on the device is located on the CEL CD in the directory \ZFSM-201\Application Source Files\CEL_MAC_111_v1.3\CEL_MAC_111\Debug\Exe\ and is named CEL_MAC_111.bin. See Figure 38 ...
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Figure 39 – Screen, FSTT – Upload in Process Figure 40 – Screen, FSTT – Upload Complete) 13) When it is complete, the screen in Figure 40 will be displayed. 14) Press the ‘RESETB’ switch on the evaluation board. All ...
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... Note: Use of an antenna which has not been certified by FCC type acceptance is not ZFSM-201-1 datasheet permitted. Please refer to The ZFSM-201-1 module is available as a ZFSM-201-1C with an MMCX connector for an external antenna. Alternatively, a module can be modified to incorporate an connector to the board (though for the customer to do so, will void the warranty). This simple procedure is given on how to modify the board for the inclusion of an external antenna connector ...
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APPENDIX 2: LICENSING ARRANGEMENTS Information in this document is provided solely to enable system and software implementers to use California Eastern Laboratories (CEL) products. There are no express or implied copyright licenses granted hereunder to design or fabricate any integrated ...