Introduction; Evb-Ant-1 Overview - u-blox XPLR-AOA-3 User Manual

4.1 Introduction

EVB-ANT-1 is a versatile application board for evaluating a system setup, using the ANT-B10 antenna
board [1] or other antenna boards.
The EVB-ANT-1 application board can be used as:
• an anchor point passing raw or processed angle events from the antenna board to a server.
See also Anchor point.
• a host board for evaluating other antenna boards,. See also
•
a positioning engine server
• a preprocessor applying filtering or other reformatting of the angle events from the antenna board
before passing them on to the network
EVB-ANT-1 has a connector and mechanical dimensions that make it suitable for mounting an
ANT-B1x-board. The board is protected with an enclosed plexiglass, as shown in

4.2 EVB-ANT-1 overview

EVB-ANT-1
ANT-B1x
connector
USB
FTDI USB
connector
RF
Custom
antenna
GPIO
board
Figure 13 EVB-ANT-1 block diagram
The main components of the EVB-ANT-1 include:
• MAYA-W1 Wi-Fi module for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity
• Arm® Cortex®-M7 Core MCU (NXP i.MX RT1060 family)
• Ethernet controller for ethernet connectivity
• Power over Ethernet (PoE) controller for powering the board using an Ethernet cable
• NINA-B411 Bluetooth module running u-connectLocate software for evaluating external antenna
boards
• Quad UART-to-USB converter providing access to the serial interfaces of the MCU, ANT-B10, and
the onboard NINA-B4 module
UBX-22006906 - R07
C1-Public
USB
SPI
GPIO
UART
UART
FTDI
UART
SPI
NINA-B4
GPIO
EVB-ANT-1
Custom antenna
Ethernet
Power
controller
MCU
SDIO
MAYA-W1
UART
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support.
Figure 2.
ANT-B1x
USB
connector
Ethernet
connector
(PoE+)
DC power
connector
Wi-Fi
Bluetooth
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