User Manual

DR1198 JN5168 USB Dongle
Reference Manual
4 © NXP Laboratories UK 2012 JN-RM-2065 v1.0
1 Introduction
This manual provides a detailed reference for the DR1198 JN5168 USB Dongle,
supplied with JN516x EK001 evaluation kit. The dongle provides a platform for
hardware development environment for wireless microcontroller applications with
a USB interface.
1.1 Overview
The DR1198 JN5168-001-U00 Dongle provides an easy way of interfacing a
host machine (such as a PC) to a wireless network based on the IEEE802.15.4,
JenNet-IP, ZigBee Light Link, ZigBee Smart Energy and RF4CE
networking applications. The dongle incorporates the NXP JN5168 wireless
microcontroller, allowing a direct USB connection between the host machine and
the JN5168 device, which then provides the radio interface to the wireless
network.
Typical uses of the dongle include:
 A complete and stable hardware environment for the development of
IEEE802.15.4, JenNet-IP, ZigBee Light Link, ZigBee Smart Energy
and RF4CE networking applications, facilitating an accelerated time-
to-market for wireless network products
 The basis of a packet sniffer for IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless
communications
 A means of integrating the host machine into a wireless network, typically
as the network Co-ordinator
The small-footprint PCB of the dongle provides all the necessary components for
a wireless microcontroller with access to a USB connection. All RF layout and
decoupling issues are handled by the design of this dongle. Therefore, this
design is ready for application development without the necessity of hardware
development.
The dongle is shown below.