Product specifications
EMB-WMB169PA-EVK-FULL
169 MHz Wireless M-Bus Evaluation Kit
The EMB-WMB169PA-EVK contains all hardware and software tools required to get started with Embit 169MHz EMB-WMB169PA modules.
The kit is available in two variants: FULL and LIGHT.
- EMB-WMB169-PA-EVK-FULL
- EMB-WMB169PA-EVK-LIGHT
The FULL variant provides 4 evaluation boards, the USB JTAG programming interface, the Embit Wireless M-Bus SDK, documentation and a sample application (wireless pulse counter). This variant of the kit allows you to develop your own W-MBus compliant application and to download your software on Embit EMB-WMB169PA modules, by means of Texas Instruments’ programmer, included in the kit.
The LIGHT variant contains 2 boards (no user programming capabilities).
The EMB-WMBx-EVK Evaluation Kit contains all the components necessary to start evaluation of Embit's W-MBus modules; in particular EMB-WMBx-EVK allows the customer to quickly learn how to establish a wireless connection between Embit radio modules.
The Evaluation Kit EMB-WMBx-EVK allows the user to exploit all the capabilities of Embit's modules, simplifying the implementation of a prototype of a complete wireless communication system. Every board can be quickly and easily connected to a computer or to an external processor via USB or RS-232 interface. For testing purposes, several pin headers are available to probe all Embit radio modules' signals and to exploit Embit radio modules' capabilities.
Embit radio modules can be used with two different approaches:
• Wireless modem
• Embedded system
Using the module as a wireless modem is possible by using the “ebi” host interface. This firmware allows the user to control the network with simple binary commands. This is the fastest way to obtain wireless connectivity in systems that already have a host device (another microcontroller or a PC).
If more features, efficiency and cost effectiveness is needed, or if no hostdevice is present, the application can be developed on the MCU installedon the Embit module itself, exploiting all the capabilities of the embedded microcontroller; this is possible thanks to Embit's Wireless M-Bus Software Development Kit.
For this reason, two kit are available: the LIGHT Kit contains 2 boards (no user programming capabilities); the FULL Kit instead contains 4 boards, the USB JTAG programming interface and the Embit Wireless M-Bus SDK [1], documentation and a sample application (wireless pulse counter).
In both kits PC applications are included to quickstart using Embit's modules: the ebi-serial-tester, a simple application which allows user to send ebi commands; and ebi-sniffer, a radio packet sniffer useful to debug the network and site monitoring
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