Description
1.2 Applications
•
Metering
: thermostat, meters, remote devices, displays, central devices, etc..
•
Home/Buildings Automation
: safety systems and access control, HVAC,
door/window control, lightning, etc..
•
Industrial Automation
: process control, wireless sensor networks, identification
and asset tracking, etc..
•
Healthcare
: blood pressure monitoring, thermometers, ECG, etc..
1.3 Block diagram
Image 1
: block diagram for the
EMB-Z2538PA
1.4 Microcontroller
EMB-Z2538PA
is equipped with the latest System-On-Chip (SOC) from Texas Instruments™:
the CC2538. The CC2538 is an integrated platform for IEEE 802.15.4 applications or
ZigBee
®
applications. The device integrates a low power 2.4 GHz transceiver, an MCU
based on an ARM Cortex-M3 core (32 bit) and a hardware accelerator for the IEEE 802.15.4
MAC layer.
The CC2538 can be used for different wireless applications, starting from simple point to
point proprietary protocols up to ZigBee
®
self-healing mesh networks, and is conceived to
offer high computational power but low power consumption. It targets in particular smart
metering applications.
The ARM Cortex-M3 32 bit core works at 32 MHz and supports the Thumb-2 instruction set;
it is coupled with 512 KB of FLASH memory and 32 KB of SRAM memory.
EMB-Z2538PA Datasheet (rev 1.4)
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