Characterization of a low power, short range wireless transceiver

Author

Neupane, Usha ; Richie, Samuel M. ; Weeks, Arthur R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

3-7 April 2005

Firstpage

1041

Lastpage

1044

Abstract

In this paper we describe the tests to characterize a wireless data transceiver, with emphasis on binary FSK (frequency shift keying) transceiver, TRF6901 from Texas Instruments, Inc. The performance analysis of the device is done with respect to one of the applications, TRF/MSP430 demonstration and development kit, consisting of two identical boards programmed to communicate using US (United States) ISM (Industrial Scientific Medical) band frequency at 915 MHz in half-duplex at 38.4 Kbps data rate employing NRZ (non return to zero) base-band coding. The kit employs an inverted F design on-board PCB (printed circuit board) antenna. Our test evaluates the performance of the device with respect to various factors in a free space environment.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna testing; encoding; frequency shift keying; microstrip antennas; printed circuits; transceivers; 38.4 Kbit/s; 915 MHz; Industrial Scientific Medical band frequency; TRF6901; US ISM; binary FSK; frequency shift keying; inverted F design on-board PCB; non return to zero base-band coding; printed circuit board antenna; wireless data transceiver; wireless transceiver; Antennas and propagation; Communication system security; Frequency shift keying; Performance analysis; Phase locked loops; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency interference; Receiving antennas; Transceivers; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Applied Computational Electromagnetics, 2005. IEEE/ACES International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9068-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCACEM.2005.1469761

Filename

1469761