PulsON®220 Evaluation Kit

Product Decription
For those ready to proceed toward a UWB deployment, Time Domain's PulsON® (P220) UWB Evaluation Kit (EVK) is a flexible hardware platform intended to serve researchers as well as developers. The EVK includes two P220 UWB Reference Design (RD) radios, operational documentation, and software. These tools allow you to evaluate the performance, capabilities and properties of UWB technology. The EVK enables you to perform complex UWB system performance studies and provides the ideal platform for application development and proof-of-concept prototyping through flexible software interfaces.

Software Applications
Systems Analysis Module (SAM): The PulsON® System Analysis Module is a software module that can be used to perform propagation studies, data rate studies, performance/quality of signal analyses, ambient noise analyses, and link budget analyses. Statistical tools include Throughput, Eb/Neff, Bit Error Rate, Total Packets Sent, Dropped Packets, Acquisition Statistics, Forward Error Correction, and Nulling.

UWB Radio Sample Application (Ursa): This sample application of a simple radio analysis tool shows users how to interface with the UWB Kernel to develop embedded applications. URSA includes source code and implementation notes, and enables the user to evaluate radio parameters such as data rate, variable gain and acquisition threshold and to capture and display a simple waveform.

Fused Ranging & Communications Sample Application: The fused communications and ranging sample application provides source code and application notes demonstrating how to create a fused (communications and ranging) UWB packet for simultaneous real-time data transmission and ranging between two radios.

Bi-Static Radar Application: The Bi-Static Radar (BSR) application demonstrates how to use 2 P220s in a bi-static radar configuration. BSR consists of an embedded component running on the radio, which is provided as a binary module, and a PC-based GUI sample application, which is provided in source form. The BSR Programming Guide describes in detail the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) socket interface to the embedded component. Customers may use the BSR GUI sample to investigate UWB radar technology, or they may employ it as a guide for developing custom bi-static radar applications.

Application Notes
The P220 EVK documentation includes application notes for each of the provided sample applications: Fused Ranging & Communications, URSA, and Bi-Static Radar. Each provides a detailed explanation of how to load and run the application. The Bi-Static Radar Application also includes its own programming guide.