Development kit for ARM Cortex M3-based IEEE 802.15.4 compliant CC2538 SoC

This post is sponsored by Texas Instruments. The CC2538 development kit, from Texas Instruments (TI) provides a complete hardware performance test platform and generic software development environment for the company's ARM Cortex M3-based, IEEE 802.15.4 compliant CC2538 RF system-on-chip (S0C). The kit includes two CC2538 RF evaluation modules (CC2538EM), two general-purpose development boards (SmartRF06EB) for software and hardware prototyping, one CC2531 USB dongle for packet sniffing, cables, and documentation to get users up and running with the CC2538 quickly and easily. The CC2538 evaluation modules can be used as reference modules for prototyping and for verifying the performance of the CC2538 RF IC. In combination with SmartRF06EB and SmartRF Studio, you have a complete set of tools for measuring RF parameters and more generally evaluate the RF performance of the chip. SmartRF Studio can generate register values and set up the radio to send and receive packets, set up a continuous wave signal and read the received signal strength (RSSI).