Development kit for fully-integrated single-chip radio transceiver

This post is sponsored by Texas Instruments. Texas Instruments (TI) now offers the CC1200 development kit which provides a complete platform for hardware performance testing and software development for its sub-1GHz CC1200 device. The CC1200 is a fully-integrated single-chip radio transceiver designed for high-performance at very low-power and low-voltage operation in cost-effective wireless systems. The development kit comes pre-programmed with a packet error rate test for easy out-of-the-box evaluation of the RF performance of the device. RF range and robustness can be tested with different RF settings, and power consumption can be measured easily. This kit supports the frequency range from 868 to 930MHz. Additional plug-in boards (EMK) can be purchased separately to support other frequencies. The kit includes the SmartRF Transceiver Evaluation Board (TrxEB), which has a number of useful features for development of prototype software, as well as USB connectivity making it possible to connect the board to a PC and control the radio from SmartRF Studio.