CYGNUS Radio Board
General Description
Wirefree CYGNUS is and 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 radio board. It is a low power, wireless sensor network platform designed for harsh industrial and commercial environments. CYGNUS is designed to be very robust and connect easily to a wide variety of sensor and signal types found in industrial and commercial sensing applications. CYGNUS is designed for expansion and flexibility using a motherboard – daughterboard hardware architecture. The motherboard hosts the wireless radio processor, power regulation, GPIO signals (General Purpose Input / Output), standard peripherals and connects to various daughterboard implementations through signal bus expansion connectors.
Features
- 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Radio Module (IRIS - Crossbow Technology Inc.)
- Atmel ATmega1281 microcontroller, 8K RAM, 128K Flash ROM
- Atmel AT86RF230 ZigBee Radio Transceiver
- Standard MMCX antenna connector
- Supports low power wireless mesh networking protocols
- Power: Battery (3.7 - 16 VDC regulated to 3.3 VDC) / USB self-powered
- Digital Buses - I2C, SPI (over I2C), 2 x UART
- 10 bit Analog Inputs
- Processor GPIO
- USB slave port for direct PC connectivity
- RS-232 port (full duplex)
- On-board RF Channel and Power selection (DIP switch bank)
- 64K bit FRAM high speed retentive RAM
- On-board digital temperature / relative humidity sensor
- On-board jumpers for feature selection / bypass
- Robust expansion connectors
- 3 On-board LEDs for application debug and status
- ISP / JTAG port
Maximum Ratings
- Supply Voltage: 3.7 VDC to 16 VDC
- Operating Temperature: -40° C to +85° C