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Next Steps

After stepping through this guide the user is able to start developing his/her own iC880A-SPI

based solution.

As a final hint there are some more interesting open source projects within the gitbub repository

For example there is a project called “packet_forwarder” that demonstrates how to receive LoRa

packets and forward the data to a remote server which may run a LoRa WAN Server

implementation or any other proprietary solution.

For more information please refer to the User Guides and specific data sheets of the

corresponding products.

Summary of Contents for iC880A-SPI

Page 1: ...iC880A SPI QuickStart Guide How to get started with the iC880A SPI Document ID 4100 40140 0096 Category confidential IMST GmbH Carl Friedrich Gauss Str 2 4 D 47475 Kamp Lintfort...

Page 2: ...x Created 2015 03 15 Total pages 17 Revision History Version Description 0 1 Preliminary version Aim of this Document Aim of this document is to give some quick start instructions how to start working...

Page 3: ...in Headers 6 2 OPEN SOURCE DRIVER ON GITHUB 8 2 1 Download of the Open Source Driver 9 2 2 Preparing the host system Raspberry Pi 9 2 2 1 Preparing the SPI Interface 9 2 2 2 Preparing the Reset Pin Co...

Page 4: ...rdware PCB Figure 1 1 depicts the printed circuit board of the iC880A SPI As main interface there are the pin headers for connecting the board to a host system that runs the driver software A SMA conn...

Page 5: ...e concrete segmentation of the protocol related tasks is outside the scope of this document Figure 1 2 Basic System Concept 1 3 Linux Host System As a host system an embedded Linux host system is plan...

Page 6: ...system keyboard layout time zone network connectivity accessibility is outside of the scope of this document too 1 4 Hardware Connection The iC880A SPI provides SPI pin headers as main interface to th...

Page 7: ...1 GPIO 2 3 4 5 V 9 SCL1 GPIO 3 5 6 GND 7 GPIO_GCLK GPIO 4 7 8 GPIO 14 TXD0 15 GND 9 10 GPIO 15 RXD0 16 0 GPIO_GEN0 GPIO 17 11 12 GPIO 18 GPIO_GEN1 1 2 GPIO_GEN2 GPIO 27 13 14 GND 3 GPIO_GEN3 GPIO 22 1...

Page 8: ...t and the iC880A SPI Figure 1 3 Connection variants between Host and iC880A SPI It is recommended to connect the necessary signals using wires that are as short possible in order to prevent communicat...

Page 9: ...the host system to be present This is by default called dev spidev0 0 In order to use this interface it must be enabled on the Raspberry Pi platform To enable it the user must call the following comma...

Page 10: ...iC880 SPI_reset sh The user must call this script once after every boot up in order to get the concentrator IC in a clean state 2 2 2 1 2 Possibility B Control the GPIO pin via a compiled C Tool libr...

Page 11: ...ing values prior re compiling the library DEBUG_AUX 0 DEBUG_SPI 0 DEBUG_REG 0 DEBUG_HAL 1 DEBUG_GPS 0 These flags are used by the internal modules of the library to enable disable additional output fo...

Page 12: ...ber 3 OK Each time a new packet is being transmitted the TX LED of the iC880A SPI should flash The tool can be stopped by pressing the key combination Ctrl C For more information about this tool pleas...

Page 13: ...le there are some general settings concerning the private public LoRa network setup The setting for the internal clock must not be changed Next there is one config block for each radio of the concentr...

Page 14: ...ublic true than the peer has to send packets that are compliant to public LoRaWAN networks This can be archived by using the Software called WiMOD LoRaWAN EndNode Studio in combination with a WiMOD mo...

Page 15: ...ion As a final hint there are some more interesting open source projects within the gitbub repository https github com Lora net For example there is a project called packet_forwarder that demonstrates...

Page 16: ...h essential requirements of the R TTE directive is within the responsibility of the manufacturer of the final product A declaration of conformity for the radio module is available from IMST GmbH on re...

Page 17: ...compliance of systems or units in which products from IMST GmbH are integrated with applicable legal regulations Customers should provide adequate design and operating safeguards to minimize the risk...