Sigfox Base Station Block Diagram

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• Description
• Features
• Block Diagram
• Products
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Description

Sigfox is a French company founded in 2009 that builds wireless networks to connect IoT devices. Their original focus was on industrial/professional applications such as water meters. Sigfox has recently been applying their technology to consumer applications such as smart watches and home alarms. The key parameters for the application is the requirement to exchange continuously and securely small amounts of data.

A wireless base station is a transceiver that connects other devices to one another and/or to a wider area. In this particular application we are implementing a Sigfox base station.

Features

• Low power
• Securely
• Small amounts of data
• Securely transmitting small amounts of data

Block Diagram

Products

Category Name 1:	MCU
Product URL 1	Layerscape LS1012A Communication Processor for the IoT | NXP
Product Description 1	The QorIQ® LS1012A processor, optimized for battery-backed or USB-powered, space-constrained networking and IoT applications.

Category Name 2:	Wireless
Product URL 1	Low-Power Multi-Channel UHF RF Wireless Platform | NXP
Product Description 1	The OL2385 device is a radio frequency transceiver with an embedded MCU designed for a wide range of industrial and home applications requiring a very high link budget for bi-directional RF communication.

Category Name 3:	Power Management
Product URL 1	VR5100 Multi-output DC-DC for COMM Processor | NXP
Product Description 1	The VR5100 is a high-performance, multi-output DC-DC regulator designed to power single or dual core LS1 processors like LS1012A and LS1024A.

Category Name 4:	Peripherals
Product URL 1	Logic controlled high-side power switch | NXP
Product Description 1	The NX5P2190 is an advanced power switch with adjustable current limit. It includes under-voltage and over-voltage lockout, over-current, over-temperature, reverse bias and in-rush current protection circuits.
Product URL 2	TJA1101 | 2nd generation PHY Transceiver | NXP
Product Description 2	TJA1101  offers 100Mbit/s transmit and receive capability per port over up to at least 15m of unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable.

Tools

Product	Link
OM2385/SF001 - OL2385 Wireless sub-GHz Transceiver SIGFOX Development Kit with KL43Z	OM2385/SF001 - SIGFOX Development Kit | NXP
Layerscape FRWY-LS1012A board	FRWY-LS1012A Development Platform | NXP
KITVR5100FRDMEVM: Evaluation Kit for VR5100 Power Management Integrated Circuit	Evaluation Kit for VR5100 Power Management Integrated Circuit | NXP