Introduction

This user guide describes the ATA8510-EK1 evaluation kit designed for industrial Radio Frequency (RF) applications, which include the following components:

• A base station with:
  • SAM C21 Xplained Pro (ATSAMC21-XPRO) evaluation kit
  • OLED1 Xplained Pro (ATOLED1-XPRO) extension kit
  • ATA5831-XPRO (EV14T68A) extension board
• Remote temperature sensor with the ATA8510 running a Flash application

The ATA5831 serves as an RF transceiver in the base station, operating in Polling mode for the detection of data telegrams. The base station displays the received message on the OLED and streams it to a PC terminal program through a virtual COM port connection.

The ATAB8510B remote sensor includes a real-time clock for waking up the ATA8510 RF transceiver. The Flash application reads the temperature data from the sensor device using a Two-Wire Interface (TWI) bus protocol implemented in software and broadcasts the temperature data via the RF link.

The RF application employs two-way communication wherein the transmitted RF telegrams are acknowledged from the receiver.

The RF link operates on channel 433.92 MHz at an 8 kBit/s data rate using Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) modulation with Manchester encoding.