Introduction

The RZ600 kit is an evaluation kit for the Atmel AT86RF family of radio frequency devices. The family contains the two 2.4GHz device AT86RF230 and AT86RF231. These are highly acclaimed networking devices within low power personal area networks. In addition to this the world’s first IEEE 802.15.4 enabled sub gigahertz radio is provided – the AT86RF212. With the kit you also receive two AVR UC3 based host nodes that can be used to evaluate a point to point network connection. That being said; the RZ600 radio boards sport an Atmel standardized 10-pin connector that will enable the RF boards to be connected to any AVR microcontroller. A wide range of the standard Atmel AVR design tools have the host end of the standardized 10-pin connector – so as a customer you will be able to evaluate Atmel radio transceivers in virtually any application segment.

The RZ600 kit enables RF4CE, IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee® and 6lowPAN network technologies to run on the full Atmel portfolio of low power AVR microcontrollers.

Features

• Contains the full selection of AT86RF family radio transceivers.

• Covers the 2.4GHz ISM band and 700, 800 and 900MHz frequency bands.

• In total 3 pair of radio transceivers are available – one pair per radio transceiver.

• Two ATUC3A3256 based USB host boards are included

- Based on Atmel® AVR® UC core

- 80 Dhrystone MIPS and Draws Only 40 mA at 66 MHz

- Low, full and high speed USB compliant

- Ideal for PC to RF gateways, packet sniffers and network commissioning tools

• On board ID chip for easy IEEE MAC address

• Stub antennas for all frequency bands