CC2531 USB Evaluation Kit Quick Start Guide
1. Kit Contents
1 x CC2531 USB Dongle
Documentation
The RF boards in this kit are FCC and IC
certified and tested to comply
ETSI/R&TTE over temperature from 0 to
+35°C.
Caution! The kit contains
ESD sensitive components.
Handle with care to prevent
permanent damage.
4. Insert the USB dongle
When inserting the USB dongle into a
USB slot, Windows' new hardware wizard
will
appear.
Select
the
automatic installation and wait for the
driver
installation
to
complete.
installation, the Packet Sniffer is ready for
use.
Caution! This USB dongle has been
designed to be powered from a USB port.
Do not attempt to connect other power
sources to the device. Avoid powering the
unit when not in use.
2. Getting Started
The CC2531 USB Dongle can be used as
a development platform for USB and RF
applications.
An external development tool, like the CC
Debugger, is required to program and
debug software running on the CC2531.
The
CC2531
preprogrammed with software that lets the
dongle operate as a packet capture device
for the SmartRF Packet Sniffer.
This Quick Start Guide will describe how
to use the dongle with the packet sniffer
and the next steps for your own software
development.
with
5. Packet Sniffer
TI's
SmartRF
convenient tool for debugging of RF
options
for
protocols. It displays the captured packets
and
decodes
After
depending on what protocol you are
running.
When starting the packet sniffer, select the
protocol as required. The Packet Sniffer
for CC2531 supports SimpliciTI, RemoTI
and ZigBee PRO, in addition to a generic
mode (no packet parsing).
3. Install the driver
Before plugging the dongle into the PC,
please install TI's SmartRF Packet Sniffer.
When installing the Packet Sniffer, you will
also automatically install the USB driver
required
between the dongle and the packet sniffer.
Dongle
comes
The Packet Sniffer can be downloaded
from
6. Debugging and Programming
Packet
Sniffer
is
a
For software development on the CC2531
an external debugger is necessary. This
can be either a SmartRF05EB [3] as
the
packet
contents
shown in the first picture,
...
second picture.
SWRA276A
March 2013
for
proper
communication
www.ti.com/tool/packet-sniffer
or a CC Debugger [4] as shown in the
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