CC253x Breakout Board
Friday, May 21, 2010 by darcoPosted in Projects, Electronics, 6LoWPAN
One of the things I've been working on in my spare time is a breakout board for the CC2530/CC2531 low-power system-on-a-chip microcontroller with a built-in 802.15.4 radio. This is a great chip, but without an easy-to-use breakout board it is somewhat difficult to prototype with. So here is mine:
The RF signal is exposed via a U.FL compact coaxial connector, which looks something like this:
This is my first attempt at RF board layout, so it may turn out to be a horrible failure. If this ends up working, this board will likely be the workhouse of my wireless sensor and home automation project.
Contiki is ported to the CC243x (which is an earlier version of the CC253x), so each of these devices can have its own µIPv6 stack. The possibilities are quite exciting, but I'll elaborate more on that in a different post.
You can grab the eagle source files to this board here.
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