RFEVAL1

The RFEVAL1 is a hardware development platform designed to assist the engineer with a 'Low Power Radio' Application.

This evaluation kit RFEVAL1 provides easy to build telemetry and data communications applications which may utilise various hardware and software encoders and decoders and also with a variety of radio modules. This enables the engineer to select the optimum radio module and antenna type for a specific target application.

Primarily as a hardware development platform, the development boards RFEVAL1 are a transmitter PCB and a receiver PCB, both of which can accommodate either AM or FM modules. An RS232 serial port is included on each board to allow the designer to connect the boards to PC's and thus create more advanced, data communication systems When completed the system may be used as a complete radio system.

Three projects are studied in detail;
1. Simple Radio Switched Relay using Keeloq HCS360 encoder & HCS512 Decoder. (A hardware solution)
2. Remote telemetry switching using Keeloq HCS360 encoder & PIC16C73 Decoder (a software solution)
3. Radio Data Communications; Transmitting a data byte between two PC's
The boards are supplied part populated with a pre-tuned PCB antenna ready for use. The user simply populates the PCB's to the specific schematic diagram as per the project required.