EDN's 18th Annual Innovation Awards Finalists
-- EDN, February 1, 2008
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&& PREVIOUS FINALIST | MAIN | NEXT FINALIST >> Category: Development Kits WINNER: eZ430-RF2500 wireless-development tool (Texas Instruments)  Laying claim to the world’s smallest low-power wireless development kit, Texas Instruments, introduced a new tool for designing embedded systems that combines MSP430 microcontrollers with wireless communications. Packaged in a USB stick form factor, the Z430-RF2500 development tool includes two RF-enabled microcontroller target boards and a PC-based debugging interface. The USB development interface plugs into a PC port and connects directly to the MCU-RF target board, providing the developer with the essential elements of a wireless network.The eZ430-RF2500 kit comes with all the software needed to program wireless MSP430 applications. The user can choose either the IAR Embedded Workbench or TI’s Code Composer Studio Essentials development environments to write and download code, then debug the application at full speed using hardware breakpoints and single stepping. The kit’s software includes a protocol stack for low-power RF networks and hardware-abstraction layers to simplify the design and prototyping of wireless systems. The kit also includes a complete sample project, measuring temperature and voltage through a wireless sensor network. Pricing is $49 per unit for the eZ430-RF2500 tool and $20 for additional eZ430-RF2500T target boards. |
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