topic Freescale Wireless Demo in 8-bit Microcontrollers

Freescale Wireless Demo

datamstr — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:11:43 GMT

Hi all,
I went to a Freescale wireless seminar in Michigan about a year ago. We used a small demo board in the lab tests and I am having a difficult time locating that demo board on the Freescale site. I think the demo board has both an 8 bit MPU and the wireless chip on it. Basically, I only need to run a simple field test in a factory for range and dead spots. The resulting functionality I will need is to send 1-4 bytes of data to a mobile cart using wireless.
So, I have a few questions for the group:
1. What is that demo board part number and is it available?
2. Can I just use the wireless chips in a "test mode" where just the "carrier" is transmitted to a receiver and do something like light up a LED if signal is present?
3. Any other suggestions on making a simple site test?

Thanks so much!
David

Re: Freescale Wireless Demo

peg — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:46:34 GMT

Hi David,

Perhaps it was a SARD board as found in here:

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=13192DSK&parentCode=MC13192&nodeId=01J4Fs25658166

using the Range Demo example as discussed here:

http://forums.freescale.com/freescale/board/message?board.id=8BITCOMM&message.id=1424

Re: Freescale Wireless Demo

datamstr — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:20:28 GMT

Hi Peg,

The MC13192DSK might be the demo we used, but I thought it had a USB connector on it.
Also, thanks for the link to the range testing information.
I will check the datasheet to see if I can run a test with just the radio, but no MPU.
Thanks,
David

Re: Freescale Wireless Demo

ok2ucx — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:07:06 GMT

Hi, you may be looking for ZSTAR demo, fully documented here:

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=RD3152MMA7260Q

Regards, Pavel, ok2ucx