Atmel AVR2131, Getting Started Manual

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Atmel AVR2131: Lightweight Mesh Getting Started Guide [APPLICATION NOTE]
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1.
Introduction
Atmel Lightweight Mesh is an easy to use proprietary low power wireless mesh network protocol. Lightweight Mesh was
designed to address the needs of a wide range of wireless connectivity applications. Some of these applications
include:
•
Remote control
•
Alarms and security
•
Automatic Meter Reading (AMR)
•
Home and commercial building automation
•
Toys and educational equipment
Lightweight Mesh is designed to work with all Atmel IEEE
®
802.15.4 transceivers and SoCs. Currently the stack works
with AVR
®
-based MCUs, but given its extreme portability and low resource requirements, it can be run on almost any
Atmel MCU. Table 1-1 gives a summary of the currently supported hardware platforms.
Table 1-1. Supported hardware platforms.
Board or module MCU Radio Transceiver
ZigBit
®
(ATZB-24-B0, ATZB-24-A2) ATmega1281 AT86RF230B
STK
®
600-mega128rfa1 board (ATAVR128RFA1-EK1) ATmega128RFA1 ATmega128RFA1
XMEGA
®
-B1 Xplained and Rz600 radio modules
(ATXMEGAB1-XPLD and ATAVRRZ600)
ATxmega128B1 AT86RF212, AT86RF231
RCB128RFA1 ATmega128RFA1 ATmega128RFA1
RCB231 ATmega1281 AT86RF231
All demonstrations in this document will use the RCB128RFA1 board [3] and the WSNDemo sample application as an
example, but the same techniques can be applied to any other development kit, or a custom board and application.
2.
Development tools
A development toolchain consists of:
•
An integrated development environment (for example, Atmel AVR Studio
®
or IAR Embedded Workbench
®
),
where sample applications may be modified, compiled, and debugged,
•
a corresponding compiler toolchain (AVR-GCC, IAR
™
), which provides everything necessary to compile
application source code into binary images, and
•
a programming device (for example, JTAG), which may be used to program and debug the application on a
target platform
IAR Embedded Workbench for Atmel AVR [4] can be used to develop and debug applications for AVR-based platforms.
The IAR IDE support’s editing of application source code, compilation, linking object modules with libraries, and
application debugging.
Atmel AVR Studio 5.1 [5] or Atmel Studio 6 [6] can be used to develop and debug applications for AVR-based
platforms. Atmel Studio is equipped with the GCC toolchain and does not require external tools to compile Lightweight
Mesh applications.