Installation Manual
Table Of Contents
- About This Document
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Quick Start for the OEM Kit Users
- 3 Product Overview
- 4 IRIS OEM Reference Board
- 5 Power
- 6 Radios
- 7 Antennas
- 8 Flash Data Logger and Serial ID Chip
- 9 Atmega1281 Fuses
- 10 Sensor Boards & Expansion Connectors
- 11 USB Programming Pod
- 12 Appendix A. Warranty and Support Information
IRIS OEM Edition Hardware Reference Manual
10 Sensor Boards & Expansion Connectors
Crossbow supplies a variety of sensor and data acquisition boards for the Motes. This Chapter
describes the connectors and the functions of the pins for the MICA family sensor boards.
10.1 Sensor Board Compatibility via Expansion Connector
Connection to the MICA family sensor boards is made by a 51-pin connector (see Figure 10-1
below).
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Figure 10-1.The 51-pin connector used on the MICA family sensor boards;
(Left: Female; Right: Male)
The expansion connector provides a user interface for sensor boards and base stations. The
connector includes interfaces for power and ground, power control of peripheral sensors, ADC
inputs for reading sensor outputs, UART interfaces, and I2C interface, general-purpose digital
IO, and others. The part numbers of the expansion connectors are shown in Table 10-1. These
can be purchased from Digi-Key.
Table 10-1. 51-pin expansion connectors
Type Digi-Key PN Hirose PN
Female H2175-ND DF-51P-1V(54)
Male H2163-ND DF9-51S-1V(54)