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July 5, 2011 PROPRIETARY NOTICE: This document contains GTECH confidential and proprietary information, know-how, trade secrets, intellectual property and/or methodologies and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may be privileged, and is proprietary, confidential and otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law.
INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose, Overview & Scope The purpose of this document is to provide details regarding the use of the GWT154 transceiver module as a cable replacement between GTECH online lottery terminals and associated peripherals. The GWT154 transceiver module is based on the IEEE 802.15.4-2006 standard, this wireless link provides a point to multipoint peripheral bus with low latency and modern security features.
802.15.4-2006 compliant transceiver operating in the unlicensed Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) frequency band of 2.400 – 2.4835 GHz. Lost Link Prevention – The GWT154 provides a failsafe timeout in the event the GTECH Terminal doesn’t receive a response from the peripheral.
GTECH equipment. For existing or legacy GTECH products, the Radio Module should be mounted to the Host Board via the two 1x10 headers. These mated boards are enclosed in a plastic housing and this constitutes the Dongle solution.
Figure 1 – Block Diagram 3.3 Radio Module Pin Definitions The communication between the Host board and the Radio module is via UART. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Module status indicator 14 NC/P1_6/UTX1 No Connect. Module option to connect to alternative UART TXD 15 NC/P1_7/URX1 No Connect. Module option to connect to alternative UART RXD 16 RTS_N Request to Send Flow Control 17 TX_EN RS‐485 driver enable output line. Disables bus driver during hardware reset 18 NC No Connect. Module option to connect to port P1_4 19 NC No Connect. Module option to connect to port P1_2 20 STATUS_LED No Connect. Module option to connect to port P1_0 Table 1 - The interface pin assignments and definitions . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
3.4 Mechanical Drawings Figure 3 - Radio Module (1.0” x 1.33”) (antenna option not shown) Figure 4 - Host Board with Radio Module (1.6” x 2.25”) . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
For new designs, the footprint design on the host/carrier board will depend on the host/carrier board requirements, desire for compatibility with other GWT154 series modules, and the desired antenna. (Note: Figure 6 – Example of the GWT154 Radio Module mounting to a Host/Carrier Board does not show the external antenna option.) .
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Figure 6 – Example of the GWT154 Radio Module mounting to a Host/Carrier Board 3.5.2 Legacy GTECH Products For existing or legacy GTECH products the Radio Module mounts to the Host Board and is enclosed in a plastic housing, referred to as the Dongle. This Host board provides RS-485 and USB interface connectors and an optional DC power connection.
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Figure 7 - Radio Module mounted to the Host Board Figure 8 - Dongle Assembly (Top and Bottom view) . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
802.15.4 modulated interferer, PER = 1% Alternate Channel Wanted signal 2440 MHz at ‐82 dBm, Rejection (±10 MHz) 802.15.4 modulated interferer, PER = 1% Channel Rejection (≥ Wanted signal 2440 MHz at ‐82 dBm, ±20 MHz) 802.15.4 modulated interferer, PER = 1% Table 4 - RF Receive Specifications (At 25°C – 3.3VDC) . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Spurious Emissions (15.205 15.209 general specified Part 15.35 – up to 10 restricted bands) emissions harmonic Power Spectral Density 8dBm/3kHz Conducted to antenna Radio Frequency Exposure Mobile device Classification Fixed antenna or Antenna Requirement non‐standard connector Table 6 - Primary EMC Certification Requirements FCC Part 15 – Modular Certification . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
Table 10 - USB Interface – Fully compliant with USB 2.0 specification 3.8 GWT154 Recommended Configurations The following drawings identify typical GTECH installation configurations. 1. Installation of an existing RS485 peripheral into a legacy terminal. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154)
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2. Installation of a new RS485 peripheral with the GWT154 embedded radio module (or modified RS485 peripheral with the GWT154 OEM module replacement). 3. Installation of an existing USB Serial peripheral running GTECH 485 Packet Protocol into a legacy terminal.
User Data payloads will pass through the wireless link transparently, with virtually the same GTECH485 protocol presented at both ends. The PAN Coordinator radio will be attached the GTECH Terminal Host CPU, which is responsible for initializing and managing the wireless network. Thus, the Terminal can control the RF channel and other infrastructure parameters, in addition to commissioning peripherals and controlling security.
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Figure 9 - Typical Data Flow 3.9.1 Break Processing Legacy GTECH Peripherals recognize a UART Break condition on the GTECH485 bus as a hardware reset. The Coordinator radio hardware does not include dedicated UART Break detect hardware, but the Coordinator radio firmware will monitor the GTECH485 bus for a UART Break condition. In addition, the Host CPU may issue a Break command packet to the Coordinator.
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The GTECH485 protocol ACK is actually a separate transaction. At the low level it looks exactly the same as any other data transaction. 3.9.5 Transmit Power Level The TIMAC Application Programming Interface allow setting of the radio’s with a 1dB resolution . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
The Host CPU can also pre-set the PAN-ID or it can automatically select an unused PAN-ID during network commissioning. The GTECH 802.14.5 wireless network will be implemented as a non-beacon-enabled network.
Devices. The Coordinator generates a random network key at the time of commissioning. The random nature of the key is ensured by dedicated hardware in the CC2530 that samples bits in the I and Q data streams in the radio receiver . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
Host CPU’s serial interface protocol. The Host CPU will have no knowledge, nor access to, a radio network’s unique encryption key. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
Peripherals on its local 485 bus. In the event the Coordinator is selected by the SYN address packet as the Peripheral, the Coordinator will broadcast the SYN Unlisten address to set all peripherals OFF-line. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
TIMAC version 1.3.0 does not currently support security per the 802.15.4-2006 standard; however TI is promising to add this functionality to the stack in a future release. The initial release of the firmware will used CMM* encryption with fixed keys. Key management, the . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
The End Device radio reassembles fragments into a buffer until the entire packet has been received, before sending it to the peripheral. Fragments must be sent and received in sequence; a fragment received out of sequence implies a lost . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
Host CPU serial packets requiring just one RF packet clear the fragmentation flag and the remaining 7-bit files is the absolute byte-count of the payload up to the maximum safe 802.15.4 encrypted packets payload size. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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81 <= Length <= 111 n = Length reserved 112 <= Length <=127 illegal 112 (0x70) n = 80 113 (0x71) n = 80 114 (0x72) n = 80 115 (0x73) n = 80 . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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125 (0x7D) n = 80 126 (0x7E) n = 80 127 (0x7F) n = 80 1 <= Length <= 80 n = Length Table 12 - Fragmentation Codes . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
By definition, all radio configuration packets include a byte length as part of the header. Codes A radio configuration packet’s checksum may be calculated and verified without knowing the received 802.14.5 packet’s absolute payload length. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Unused 0x1F Unused Table 13 - GTECH Packet Type Codes 7.1.3 GTECH Address Packet The GTECH485 protocol uses query/response method to address individual Peripherals in a multi-drop wired network. The Terminal issues a specific address command to select the active Peripheral, all other Peripherals are to un-assert themselves from the bus.
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Req 2 Req 1 Req 0 Structure 4: GTECH Protocol Address Status Refer to for bit field assignments in Address Response Status byte. A special Un-Listen address (0x16) in the restricted range may be issued by the Host CPU to force all peripherals off-line.
Figure 17 - GTECH Data Packet Structure 7.1.5 Data Exception Handling Special handling is required for binary data with values between 0x04 to 0x06 and 0x0F to 0x1B because these ranges are reserved for GTECH485 protocol control characters. The control character ESC (0x1B) is used as an escape prefix to signal that the following byte was in the range of the control characters and has been modified (1’s complemented) to place it outside the reserved range.
The Coordinator radio is controlled by the Host CPU by encapsulating configuration messages in a GTECH485 protocol data packet. Radio configuration packets must implement the GTECH485 exception protocol so not to be misinterpreted by any other legacy GTECH peripherals that share the same wired 485 bus as the Coordinator radio.
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Radio should reply with the same Command Code with the Acknowledge bit set to zero(0) and zero Length. Command packets with failed checksums, unknown Command codes, or of incorrect Length, will be ignored. The radio will not respond to failed command packets. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Channel of the 2.4GHz 802.15.4 band 0x07 Set Energy Scan Start energy scan on all 802.15.4 Channels. 0x08 Get PAN Scan Variable PAN List of PAN Descriptors retrieved from Active Coordinators scan. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Firmware version in the format: Version YYYY_MM_DD 0x1F Reset / Target Force all End Devices to Reset and assert a Break Break condition on their 485 bus. Table 15 - Coordinator Radio Command Codes . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Seconds elapsed since Power-On/Reset event. Rollover occurs in about 136-years. 7.2.2.2 Mode 0x01 (Host to Radio) This configuration command defines the basic operating modes of the radio and provide low-level network control functions. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Returns the current 802.15.4 / 2.4GHz Channel Mask bit settings. Bytes: Field: 0x02 Channel Default Code Length Mask Channel Structure 11: Channel Mask Status Packet Channel Mask: 2.4GHz 802.15.4 Channel Mask bit fields. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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0x00 0xF8 0x7F 0x00 Default Channel: Coordinator’s start-up channel. 7.2.2.5 Get PAN-ID (0x04) GTECH 802.15.4 radios will employ short (16-bit) Personal Area Network IDs. Get PAN-ID return the Coordinator radio’s PAN address. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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CH 27 CH 28 Code Length RSSI RSSI RSSI RSSI RSSI RSSI Structure 16: RSSI Scan Result Length: Busy scanning. Energy Scan failed. Undefined. 2 to 15 16 to 18 Channels scanned. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Seven bytes per PAN Descriptor. Descriptor: PAN Descriptor Structure for each network beacon response. Bytes: Field: Address PAN-ID Channel Link Security Security Quality Fail Parameters Structure 19: PAN Descriptior Address: Short (16-bit) address of beacon Coordinator. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Structure 21: Associating Devices Address list End Device: End Device address structure with EUI-64 and Short addresses. Bytes: Field: EUI-64 Short Address Structure 22: End Device Address Structure EUI-64: Extended Unique Identifier (MAC Address) for End Device. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Structure 25: End Device Access Control Structure Key Index: Auxiliary Security Header Key Index value for this ACL entry. 0x00 No AES encryption key assigned. 0x01 Factory AES key (requesting to join). 0x02 Network AES key (joined). . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Type set to 0(zero) identifies an address overloaded message, Short or Extended address length is determined by the Length field. Bytes: Field: 0x0F Type GTECH Code Length Address Structure 28: Set End Device Address Request Packet (GTECH Address) . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Extend address strings may be handled by the command structure in the future. SYN Response messages from End Devices to Coordinator are also identified by the SYN type with the GTECH Address field containing the Address and peripheral Status response bytes.
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Coordinator, or most recently selected End Device’s radio. The Device field must be to for the target device; the Transmit Power, Antenna and Failsafe fields are unused when Get RF is issued, the Coordinator fills them in response. Bytes: . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Attempts to select End Devices that are blocked by the filter (bit set to 0) disconnects the Coordinator from any previously selected End Device radios. The mask structure consists of 32 8-bit bytes for a total of 256 GTECH Peripheral addresses that are filtered. Bytes:...
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7.2.2.24 Reserved (0x17) 7.2.2.25 Get Ping (0x18) Polls the Coordinator radio for any response to a Host CPU Send Ping. Replies with Length = zero(0) if no Ping response has been received. Bytes: . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Reserved for Ping response, Host CPU should fill with zero() . Short Address: 802.15.4 Short Address for End Device to Ping, setting to Broadcast 0xFFFF (255, 255) will instead address the most recently selected GTECH Peripheral’s End Device radio. EUI-64: Reserved for Ping response, Host CPU should fill with zeros(0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0).
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Structure 44: Get Version Version: ASCII byte string in the format YYYY_MM_DDr(null) where: YYYY 4-digit year i.e. 2000. 2-digit month i.e. 04 (April). 2-digit day. revision letter (a to z). null 0 (‘/0’). . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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Bytes: Field: 0x1F Target Code Length Structure 45: Generate Reset / Break Sequence Target: Resets Terminal radio (coordinator). 0x00 Broadcasts Reset command to all End Devices. 0x01 Reserved 0x02 to 0xFF . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
USER INTERFACE The basic GWT154 Radio Module has one user LED status indicator and one momentary contact pushbutton switch input. The following radio modes are initiated and indicated by the following: Uninstalled Radio An un-commissioned radio from the factory defaults as an End Device that has not been joined to a PAN Coordinator.
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GTECH Technical Training and Support Services, (401) 392-7961. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
If new devices have been accepted to the PAN the Terminal/Host should also instruct the Coordinator radio to save the updated ACL to persistent memory. Set Stop Joining Mode Set Mode to NV Save Optionally, the Terminal/Host may obtain the radio’s firmware version. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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05 00 1B F9 00 FA 04 Scan 05 00 86 00 7A 04 SYN-Address 16 01 01 00 Get Energy 05 00 1B F9 00 FA 04 Scan 05 00 86 00 7A 04 . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
0x30, 0x31 to 0x5F. Get Ping: Coordinator RSSI 207, Coordinator LQI 89, End Device RSSI 223, End Device LQI 134, Transmit Power 15, Short Address 0x0001, EUI-64 0.18.75.0.1.26.56.37, Test Data 0x30, 0x31 to 0x5F. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
Terminal/Host above, though there may be differences. 9.5.1 Select Peripheral Address, Set NV Save Mode Set Mode: NV Save Message Terminal/Host Coordinator Radio SYN-Address 16 01 01 00 Set Mode 05 00 01 01 40 BE 04 05 00 81 00 7F 04 . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
To comply with FCC/IC RF exposure requirements for mobile transmitting devices, this transmitter should only be used or installed at locations where there is at least 20cm separation distance between the antenna and all persons. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
User manuals for transmitters equipped with detachable antennas shall also contain the following notice in a conspicuous location: This radio transmitter Model GWT154 (IC: 1706AGWT1541T1R) has been approved by Industry Canada to operate with the antenna types listed below with the maximum permissible gain and required antenna impedance for each antenna type indicated.
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1. cet appareil ne peut causer d'interférences, et 2. cet appareil doit accepter toute interférence, y compris les interférences qui peuvent causer un mauvais fonctionnement de l'appareil. . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
10.3 OEM Responsibilities to comply with FCC and Industry Canada Regulations The GWT154 Radio Module has been certified for integration into GTECH products only by OEM integrators under the following conditions: 1. The antenna(s) must be installed such that a minimum separation distance of 20cm is maintained between the radiator (antenna) and all persons at all times.
10.4 End Product Labelling The GWT154 Radio Module is labeled with its own FCC ID and IC Certification Number. If the FCC ID and IC Certification Number are not visible when the module is installed inside another device, then the outside of the device into which the module is installed must also display a label referring to the enclosed module.
GTECH Center 10 Memorial Boulevard Providence RI, 02903 401-392-1000 Website http://www.gtech.com Technical Support Ted Carr Sr. Product Compliance Specialist, 401-392-7721 Online Customer Service http://www.gtech.com/about_gtech/customer_net.asp Sales Contact Dennis Hultzman, Director of Purchasing, 401-392-7383 . 96-1886-01E GTECH Aircon Radio (Model GWT154) PAGE...
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