User's Manual

P330 Data Sheet / User Guide 5
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1 Summary
Time Domain is dedicated to providing industry with a wide variety of UWB platforms for use as
ranging radios, radars, multi-static radars and communications devices. The P330 is the latest
addition and joins the P400 family of devices.
The P400 family is based on Time Domain’s FIFE UWB chip while the P330 uses the Decawave
DW1000 UWB chip. While both chips support Two Way Time of Flight, the approaches used to
implement this capability were accomplished in very different manners. As a result, both chips have
significant advantages and disadvantages relative to each other. Consequently, there are applications
for which the P330 is ideally suited and others for which the P440 is perfect. For a detailed
discussion of these differences see the document Comparison of P330 and P440.
The P330 was developed by
 Leveraging the P000 software interface and RangeNet GUI with
 the network and localization capability of the P400
 and the Decawave DW1000 ranging chip.
The result is a powerful development platform which will allow the user to build, test and
demonstrate rapid prototypes of end products without needing to first develop the basic hardware and
software necessary to demonstrate the ranging, network or localization capability of the end product.
With the P330 the user will be able to
 Quickly demonstrate and quantify the performance of UWB ranging in a target environment
 Organize a group of P330s as a self-localizing, network in which each member of the group
computes its own location and report this location and the location of the other P330s in the
area to a host controller
 Quickly interface the P330 with virtually any hardware because the P330
o Accepts any voltage from 5.5 to 48volts
o Interfaces to a Host Controller through Serial, SPI, CAN, USB or Ethernet
o Operates from -40 to +85c
o Has excellent performance in high vibration environments
o Has emissions which are compliant with both the FCC regulations and the European
ETSI standards
 Easily monitor and control a P330 system through the RangeNet GUI (or use the sample
MATLAB or C code provided with the P330 to develop your own monitor and control
system)
Once a proof of concept has successfully concluded, the user can move to the next step in the product
cycle either by using the P330s as is or by designing a low cost version of the P330 that contains only
the hardware necessary to fulfill the requirements of the project.
The P330 has the following additional features:
 It is a coherent Ultra Wideband (UWB) radio transceiver optimized for measuring the
distance between two radios.
 It uses the DW1000 UWB chip to measure distance by the Two-Way Time-of-Flight (TW-
TOF) method. These measurements have a precision of 10 cm (3 standard deviations) and a
bias error of +/-2 cm. Ranging rates of 180Hz are possible.