Specifications

Navigating the SNAP Documentation

There are several main documents you need to be aware of:

Start with an “Evaluation Kit Users Guide”

Each evaluation kit comes with its own Users Guide. For example, the EK2500 kit comes with the

EK2500 Evaluation Kit Users Guide (“EK2500 Guide”), and the EK2100 kit comes with the

EK2100 Evaluation Kit Users Guide (“EK2100 Guide”).

Each of these guides walks you through the basics of unpacking your evaluation kit, setting up your

wireless nodes, and installing Portal software on your PC. You should start with one of these manuals,

even if you are not starting with an EK2500 or EK2100 kit (Synapse SNAP nodes and even their

component SNAP Engines are also sold separately, as well as bundled into evaluation kits).

About This Manual

This manual assumes you have read and understood either the “EK2100 Users Guide” or the “EK2500

Users Guide.” It assumes you have installed the Portal software, and are now familiar with the basics

of discovering nodes, uploading SNAPpy scripts into them, and controlling and monitoring them from

Portal.

The focus of this manual is information about SNAP and SNAPpy. It covers topics like the SNAPpy

language, and the built-in functions that are accessible from it. You will also find information about

the different node configuration parameters that can be changed.

NOTE – In previous versions of this manual, information about the Portal GUI was also included.

Starting with version 2.2, information specific to Portal has been moved to a separate Portal

Reference Manual.

Previous versions of this manual referred to Synapse RF100 SNAP Engines as RFEngines. As SNAP

has been ported to multiple platforms, the SNAP Reference Manual has been updated to better

distinguish between the various platforms. See section 10 for details specific to each SNAP platform.