User's Guide

PRO-FLEX TRANSCEIVER MODULES

USER’S GUIDE

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2 Quick Start

2.1 Operational Overview

The quick start demonstration presented in this chapter is referred to as the Ping Pong

Test. The Ping Pong Test allows an end user to easily verify communication between

two transceivers and get a feel for the quality of the link via feedback of the flashing

LEDs.

Running the Ping Pong Test requires the use of two (2) development boards. One

board will be the master (or transmitter), and the other board will be the slave (or

receiver). The master periodically transmits packets to the slave. If the slave receives

and verifies the packet, it will flash its LEDs and transmit an acknowledgement to the

master. If the master receives and verifies the acknowledgement, it will flash its LEDs.

In normal ping pong mode, LEDs indicate signal strength (two LEDs on indicate high

signal strength, one LED indicates low signal strength). If the LEDs do not light, the

packet or acknowledgement was not received.

2.2 Software Installation

The included software is an IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for MSP430 (rev.

4.11B) project. As a result, this development environment should be installed on the

development PC. Also, the latest version of the TI ZigBee stack should be installed on

the development PC. The ZigBee stack is available on the TI web site. It should be

noted that the included Pro-FLEX firmware project only uses the 802.15.4 MAC API of

the ZigBee stack.

To install the firmware unzip the files to the C:\Texas Instruments\ZStack-2.2.0-

1.3.0\Projects directory of the TI ZigBee stack. This is assuming that ZigBee stack was

installed into the default directory structure.

Once the firmware is installed, the IAR workspace file should be in C:\Texas

Instruments\ZStack-2.2.0-1.3.0\Projects\ProFlex01. The workspace filename is

Proflex01.eww.

2.3 Setting up TI Z-Stack

TBD

2.4 Modifying Include Directories

TBD

For additional information relating to the TI Z-Stack, refer to the documentation folder

installed with Z-Stack:

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