Introduction

ZigBit™ 2.4 GHz Amplified Wireless Modules

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GPIO

General Purpose Input/Output

HAF

High Frequency

HVAC

Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning

HW

Hardware

Inter-Integrated Circuit

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electrionics Engineers

IRQ

Interrupt Request

ISM

Industrial, Scientific and Medical radio band

JTAG

Digital interface for debugging of embedded device, also known as IEEE 1149.1 standard

interface

LNA

Low Noise Amplifier

MAC

Medium Access Control layer

MCU

Microcontroller Unit. In this document it also means the processor, which is the core of ZigBit

module

NRE

Network layer

OEM

Non-Recurring Engineering

OTA

Over-The-Air upgrade

PA

Power Amplifier

PCB

Printed Circuit Board

PER

Package Error Ratio

RAM

Random Access Memory

RF

Radio Frequency

RTS/CTS

Request to Send/ Clear to Send

RX

Receiver

SMA

Surface Mount Assembly

SPI

Serial Peripheral Interface

SW

Software

TTM

Time To Market

TX

Transmitter

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

USART

Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

USB

Universal Serial Bus

ZDK

ZigBit Development Kit

ZigBee,

ZigBee PRO

Wireless networking standards targeted at low-power applications

802.15.4

The IEEE 802.15.4-2003 standard applicable to low-rate wireless Personal Area Network