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1. 4 1 2 LC Ind Modem 0 Verview 4 1 3 MTC Software Installation 4 2 DESCRIPTION 5 2 1 Technical characteriStiCS 5 2 2 Connectio ns 5 2 3 Diagrams 7 3 BASIC OPERATION USING MTC 8 3 1 The desktop 8 3 1 1 The menu bar 10 3 1 2 The tool bar 12 3 1 3 The application Tree 13 3 2 Peer to peer dialog 15 3 2 1 Configur2. Copyright Adcon RF Technology 2002 Page 14 LC Ind Modems Technical M anual Rev 1 0 ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 3 2 Peer to peer dialog The first tool available with the MTC software is the peer to peer dialog tool allowing the user to communicate between two compatible radio modules From the menu bar the Peer to peer menu is to be selected 3 2 1 Configuration From the menu bar the Peer to peer Configuration submenu has to be selected A window allowing the user configuring two compatible radio units for peer to peer dialog is displayed EE A Peer to peer configuration Both operating mode and communication channel should be chosen by the user Once the configuration is done pressing OK or DIALOG allows the user to validate it Sun CONFIG RESU If OK was pressed pressing Yes quits the peer to peer configuration window and the user has then to select the peer to peer dialog tool either from the menu bar or the tool bar If DIALOG was pressed pressing Yes opens the peer to peer dialog window See paragraph 7 2 Pressing No cancels the configuration in both cases Copyright Adcon RF Technology 2002 Page 15 LC Ind Modems Technical M anual Rev 1 0 ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 3 2 2 Dialog From the menu bar the Tool Peer to peer dialog Advanced user level or the Peer to peer Dialog Basic user level submenu has to be selected A window allowing
3. Settings Modem Peertopeer Network Windows Help Each menu is composed of several submenus corresponding to specific functions or actions Every menus and submenus are described in the following paragraphs Each function and option will be further described in the next chapters gt The File Menu The File menu is composed of Exit an submenu which quits the software program gt The Settings Menu The Settings menu is composed of the following submenus e Language Allows the user to change the software s operation language English French and German are available for the moment The default language is English e User level Allows the user to switch from a basic operation desktop to an advanced operation desktop and vice versa The current description concerns the basic user level configuration For the advanced user level configuration description refer to the MTC Workbench User M anual gt The Modem Menu The Modem menu is composed of the following submenu e Channel scanning Displays a window which presents either the radio channel s occupation rate or the signal s level received by the radio module e Autoconfiguration Allows the user to launch an autoconfiguration on one or on all ports from the desktop e g for connection loss or modem replacement gt The Peer to peer Menu The Peer to peer menu is for basic operation configuration and is com
4. based on the following principle A data frame always begins with the 2 ASCII AT characters standing for ATtention Commands are coded over one or several characters and may include additional data A given command always ends up with a lt CR gt Carriage Return Additional command o pee The only exception to this data framing rule is the switching command from Transparent Mode to AT Mode In this case only the escape code by default must be started and followed by a silent time at least equal to the time out In this case only lt AT gt and lt CR gt shall not be used Note The Time between 2 characters of the same command must be under 10 seconds Despite its similarity to standard telecommunication modem ADCON LC IND radio modems remains a radio link modem and is consequently fitted with some particular additional AT commands proper to radio transmission l e Channel choice reception level etc The modem response is as follow Modem response Code OK 0 Error 3y ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 4 2 2 Standard commands Command ATO Operating mode Description Activate transparent Mode ATO sets up the Module to transparent mode To return to Hayes Mode enter a sequence ATSn Activate AT Mode Gives an instant access to the modem parameter set up mode AT or Hayes Mode Command shall not be start
5. ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY M433LC Radio Modem ETSI 300 220 2A A AA Fh 7 Technical M anual ISSUE 4 0 UPDATE 19 08 2002 ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY Adcon RF Technology SA Les Cardoulines Batiment B4 1360 route des Dolines 06560 Valbonne Sophia Antipolis France Tel 33 0 4 97 21 33 10 Fax 33 0 4 97 21 33 11 www adcon com sales rf adcon com Proprietary Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice Company or product names mentioned in this document may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies All rights reserved Neither the whole nor any part of the information contained in this publication may be reproduced in any material form except with the written permission of Adcon RF Technology This publication is intended only to assist the reader in the use of the product Adcon RF Technology shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from the use of any information in this publication or any error or omission in such information or any incorrect use of the product ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTEN S 3 1 INTRODUCTION 4 1 1 Aim of Document
6. Modems Technical M anual Rev 1 0 ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY e Auto reply Enabling this option allows the user to send every received frame back to the transmitter e Not received Indicates the number of messages that were not received by the unit during the dialog e Nb msg sent Provides the number of messages sent to the other module e Elapsed time Specifies how long the modem has been transmitting when the send continuously option is enabled e Errors Provides the number of errors occurring during a transmission Those errors are counted in characters e Send button Sends the frame previously entered by the user in the data to send field to the other module e Clear Send button Clears the data to send field as well as the received data field of the other module e Stop button Stops a permanent transmission when send continuously is enabled The two other buttons at the bottom of the window are general for both modules e Display button Displays a summary of the dialog established between the two radio units ka Peer to peer dialog display From COM1 to COM2 message 0 Sent 1 chars Rev 1 chars message 1 Sent 1 chars Rev 1 chars message 2 Sent 1 chars Rev 1 chars message 3 Sent 1 chars Rev 1 chars message 4 Sent 1 chars Rev 1 chars message 5 Se
7. arent mode does not involve the absence of delay in transmission reception The time for UART reception of the first character to be transmitted must be taken into account as well as the time for carrier synchronisation preamble time for radio transmission and time for the transmission into the UART of the receiver The total delay between the character transmission on the serial link of an LC RF Modem and the reception of the first character on the serial link of another LC RF Modem must not exceed 25 ms for a serial link at 9600 Baud gt Priority to transmission The LC RF Modem takes priority over the reception of the characters coming from the serial link connected to it Thus a permanent reception or jamming on its channel of a radio signal valid or not cannot involve locking to switch to Hayes command ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY gt Transmission Reception of a data frame in Transparent Mode Data No 1 Data No 2 RS 232 transmission Data No 1 Data No 2 Serial data Radio Transmission Rx TX switch Carrier standard time Time Out i5 ms 5 5 ms 15 ms Register S214 End carrier process Carrier detect Data No 1 Data No 2 RS 232 Reception ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 4 2 Hayes or AT Mode 4 2 1 General concept Hayes or AT commands comply with Hayes protocol used in PSTN modem standards This AT protocol or Hayes mode is used to program the modem parameters
8. ation 15 3 2 2 Dialog 16 4 ADVANCED OPERATION N 18 4 1 Transparent mode 18 4 2 Hayes or AT M od 20 4 2 1 General Concept 20 4 2 2 Standard comMmmandS 21 4 3 Register description 22 Appendix HiStOry 23 A 1 Revision hiStOrYy 23 A 2 Firmware version histo ry 23 ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 Aim of Document The objective of the present doc
9. cluded between 1 and 255 Default value 5 ms Status can be delivered as a binary value or ASCII characters when answering a scanning gt 0 Binary value is returned Default value gt 1 ASCII character is returned Scanning on channel x Channel N X 0 to 9 scanning during a selected time multiplied by 10 ms eturn value is the occupation rate in of the channel Example ATS235 20 lt CR gt stands for a scanning on channel 5 during 20x10 200 ms return value could be 100 if busy time is 200 ms i e 100 50 if busy time is 100 ms i e 50 Scanning all channels Scans all radio channels from 0 to 9 For each channel the analysis time is the given value multiplied by 10 ms In ASCII mode the modem answers 100 020 000 005 000 000 000 000 000 010 where each figure separated by represents the occupation rate of a channel the No 0 on the left part to No 9 on the right part In binary Mode the Modem answers xdy0d00x00 for which each binary character is the occupation rate of each channel Permanent scanning Same as order S240 but the channel scanning is permanent After scanning 10 channels the modem transmits the result and starts immediately a new scanning Scanning stops after reception of any character on the serial line Scanning status of the radio activity as noise or data in the selected channel ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY Appendix Histo
10. ed with AT and ended by lt CR gt but entered between a silent time duration time out which parameter is defined in milliseconds in Register 214 i e lt time out gt lt time out gt Note By activating the AT Mode LC IND modems inactivate radio reception Register Handling Display of Register S Number N contents LC IND modems operating parameters are stored in S classified Registers S Registers are numbered from 0 to 512 Some parameters are standard for every Hayes type modems other are specific to LC IND units ATSn m Entering m value into Register S Number n A new parameter entered is Register S is automatically stored in the modem EEPROM memory AT S Clear Display of Significant Registers contents Every significant register for the modem radio configuration Serial configuration operating M ode are sent to the serial link ready to be clearly displayed by a Software such as Windows Terminal AT V ATTO Clear Display of the Modem Software version Information concerning the version number and installation date is sent on the Serial Link in clear ready to be displayed by Software such as Windows Terminal Test Functions Pure carrier transmission for testing purposes ATT1 FO modulated carrier transmission for testing purposes ATT2 F1 modulated carrier transmission for testing purposes ATT3 Alternative FO F1 modulated carrier tra
11. es H b MC 3 files zea About ports LC 433 files i B9008S 20 files 89008S 500 files E Smart 433 files fll B43355 10 files fll B433SH 10 files add LINK 868 files fh 868 500 files Note The application tree i e the Tree window especially can not be exploited in basic user level configuration In basic level configuration the Tree is just used as information Copyright Adcon RF Technology 2002 Page 13 LC Ind Modems Technical M anual Rev 1 0 ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY gt Tree Window The top part lists the different serial ports and their connected modems when applicable Whenever a modem is connected to a port anode appears at that port Clicking on that node will display the modem type as a child node il top g7 Serial port com ph 433 LC COM2 COM3 o The bottom part lists the different configuration files available sorted by type of modem It is not available in basic user level configuration gt Ports Window The About port window gives information about the status of each serial port detected by the system during auto configuration Modem connected to corresponding port Port in use E g a tool is operating on that port CLOSED Modem connected to corresponding port Port not in use NGOTIGOGNNEGTED No modem connected to corresponding port Note The legend i e ports status can be hidden by disabling the Legend button
12. grammed parameters i e the modem s configuration are stored within EEPROM s registers so that LC Ind modems are automatically configured with the lastly saved configuration channel data rates etc when switched on By default the standard configuration is 9600 bauds 8 data bits 1 stop bit no parity channel 0 transparent mode 1 3 MTC Software Installation 1 Put Adcon database CD into the PC The CD is autolaunched and displays a browser on the Adcon database presentation page 2 Go to the Adcon database page by clicking either on the Adcon RF Database link or on its button 3 Install the MTC Workbench software by clicking on the MTC Workbench Installation link The software is automatically installed in C Program File Adcon MTC this directory can be changed 2 DESCRIPTION ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 2 1 Technical characteristics Frequency Band Channels Channel selection Radio Speed Serial Baudrate Modul Demodul Power Supply RF Consumption 12V RF Sensitivity RSSI trigger RF radiated power Data error rating Communication range Operating temperature Dimensions Weight 2 2 Connections 433 05 434 79 MHz ETSI 300 220 10 channels 175 KHz spacing Hayes Commands Register S200 9 6 Kbits s 1200 to 38400 bauds FSK Frequency Shift Keying 8 to 40 V e Reception lt 40 mA e Transmission lt 70 mA 95 dBm 50 Ohms YES Thre
13. ining all information about the software development such as software version copyright author etc Copyright Adcon RF Technology 2002 Page 11 LC Ind Modems Technical M anual Rev 1 0 ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 3 1 2 The tool bar The tool bar contains shortcut buttons corresponding to the main functions of the menu bar described in the previous paragraph Some of those are only applicable in certain conditions and are therefore disabled elsewhere The buttons functions are listed in the following table 1 Channel scanning Channel scanning of the current radio module 2 Auto configuration Operates new auto configuration on all or selected ports 3 Opens peer to peer dialog Opens peer to peer dialog window between two chosen ports 4 Opens network dialog Opens network dialog window between two chosen ports Copyright Adcon RF Technology 2002 Page 12 LC Ind Modems Technical M anual Rev 1 0 ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 3 1 3 The application Tree Once the auto configuration is done the software builds and displays the application tree using the serial ports defined in the system the connected modems detected during auto configuration and the modem configuration files found in the application configuration file The application tree is composed of two windows that can not be closed the Tree window and the About Ports window They are described below a Configuration files MC V2 fil
14. modems including LC Ind radio modem with a standard set of functions common for each modem es Once launch e MTC software displays the following desktop and message 15 x seCHECK tue CHECK Do you want to launch auto configuration re AUTO CONFIGURATION The auto configuration has to be launched for the software to detect the connected radio module i e Yes has to be pressed RF TECHNOLOGY e Once the auto configuration is done a few minutes depending on the number of serial ports the following desktop is displayed sce ATC Workbench elx File Settings Modem Peerto peer Network Windows Help agsia legend Configuration files MC v2 files MC V3 files LC 433 files W 590055 20 files B90085 500 files E Smart 433 files W B43355 10 files E 8433SH 10 files W addLINK 868 files 868 500 files e A visual check that the software detected the radio modem during auto configuration can be done by clicking on the COM1 node The radio modem should appear as a child node in the Tree window E E com cy 433 LC com2 com3 The radio modem is now ready to be tested and configured with the different options of the MTC software Those options are described below ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 3 1 1 The menu bar The menu bar is fully configurable and is defined in the application configuration file ts MTC Workbench File
15. nsmission for testing purposes Copyright Adcon RF Technology 2002 Page 21 LC Ind Modems Technical M anual Rev 1 0 ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 4 3 Register description LC Ind modems can offer several possible configurations using a set of parameters Those parameters are located in registers and have a default value This value can be modified or consulted through Hayes commands or via the MTC Workbench The modems parameters are stored in the EEPROM and can therefore be changed up to 10 000 times and be available when switching on the modem The registers are listed below Radio Link Communication channel N Baudrate Indicates on which channel the modem is operating Included between 0 and 9 Default value 0 Indicates the serial link transmission rate 1 1200 Baud 2 2400 Bauds 3 4800 Bauds 4 9600 Bauds Default value 5 19200 Bauds 40 bytes frames max 6 38400 Bauds 40 bytes frames max Data Length Indicates the number of data bits on the serial link gt 7 7 bits gt 8 8 bits Default value Parity Indicates the parity on the serial link gt 1 None Default value gt 2 Odd gt 3 Even Number of stop bits Indicates the number of stop bits on the serial link gt 1 1 bit Default value gt 2 2 bits Scanning Time Out Status format during scanning Indicates the value of the time out on the serial link in ms In
16. nt 1 chars Rev 1 chars message 6 Sent 1 chars Rev l chars message 7 Sent 1 chars Rev 1 chars message 8 Sent 1 chars e Clear All button Clears all the window s fields described above e Exit button Quits the peer to peer dialog window Copyright Adcon RF Technology 2002 Page 17 LC Ind Modems Technical M anual Rev 1 0 ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 4 ADVANCED OPERATION 4 1 Transparent mode In Transparent Mode the LC Ind radio modem behaves like a wired serial link l e LC Ind radio modem does not only transmit to the radio channel every serial link received data but also transmits on the serial link the radio channel received information Basically the LC IND radio modem as a half duplex module reproduces the half duplex function of a RS 485 cable In Transparent Mode no frame control is performed by the LC IND radio modem neither on the serial link nor on the radio link Flow control must be carried out by software applications via protocols in use such as MODBUS J BUS etc Consequently Transparent Mode does not give any possibility to change the module parameters without a temporary return to Hayes mode NOTE The user s software application must adequately verify that all buffers are transmitted correctly taking into account that an interrupted transmission link may lead to losing one or several buffers The transp
17. posed of the following submenus e Configuration Displays a window allowing quick configuration of two radio modules for peer to peer dialog The parameters concerned are the operating mode and the radio channel e Dialog Displays an advanced terminal dialog window between two given radio modules the ports of which are chosen by the user A Copy ae Haines LC Ind M oden Rev 1 0 F Technology 2002 Page 10 echnical Manual ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY gt The Network Menu The Network menu is composed of the following submenus Configuration Displays a window allowing quick configuration of two radio modules for network dialog The parameters concerned are the operating mode Network client server or addressed secured the network and clients IDs and the radio channel Dialog Displays an advanced terminal dialog window between two given radio modules already configured with all necessary network parameters i e mode network and clients IDs The ports are chosen by the user Note It isnot applicable to M433LC Ind units gt The Windows Menu The Windows menu lists the different windows already opened and allows the user to change the active window Note that both Tree and About ports windows will always appear in that list as they can not be closed gt The Help Menu The Help menu is composed of an About submenu which displays a window conta
18. ry A 1 Revision history 0 1 GS Creation GS Updates according to development MHB Updates according to development MHB Updates and re design SG Updates and MTC integration A 2 Firmware version history gt Serial rate up to 38400 bauds Radio rate up to 10 Kbits s Transparent mode Scanning
19. shold at 93 2 dBm 10 dBm 10 mW in transmission 10 for 90 dBm up to 1000 m in free field 0 C 50 C 89 x 64 x 24mm 150g The connection DCE connection to the board is ensured by a 9 points SUB D interface whose pins are linked as follow Pin Function Dir 1 z 2 TX RS232 format 12 volts O 3 Rx RS232 format 12 volts 4 5 Ground GND 6 7 8 5 9 VDD from 8 to 40volts 80mA The radio modem must be power supplied via the SUB D interface 9 points as follows Input voltage M ax Input voltage Min Reverse voltage Load dump Fast transient Conduction disturbance 40V 8V 40V 120V 1ms 100ms Standard IEC801 4 2KV Standard IEC801 6 10V RMS ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY Copyright Adcon RF Technology 2002 Page 6 M433LC Ind Modem Technical Manual Rev 4 0 elled Ne dv ADCON RF TECHNOLOGY 3 BASIC OPERATION USING MTC 3 1 The desktop The Modem Test amp Configuration MTC Workbench is an Adcon software framework to test and configure all modems supplied by Adcon RF Technology Several and diversified modems connected to the PC workstation via various hardware interfaces RS232 RS422 can be tested and configured at the same time The framework provides a desktop to display test and configure multiple
20. the user choosing on which ports the peer to peer dialog tool has to be operated is displayed The same window is displayed when using the tool bar Once the choice is validated by the user the following peer to peer dialog window is displayed f peer to peer dialog COM1 lt gt COM2 The peer to peer dialog window is composed of two identical panels one for each module The different fields and buttons of those panels are described below e Title displayed on top of the panel it gives the type of module and the port it is connected to E g 433 LC COM 1 e Received data This non editable field displays the data received on the radio link from the other module The red dot indicates the status of the communication it goes to green if a message is being received e Nb msg Provides the number of messages received by the module since the beginning of the dialog e Data to send Displays the data to be sent by the user to the other module The red dot indicates the status of the communication it goes to green when a message is being sent e Frame length Provides the length of the frame to be sent by the user e Send continuously Enabling this option allows the user to transmit data from Data to send permanently to the other modem The time out i e Each ms field is configurable but should be greater than 500 ms Copyright Adcon RF Technology 2002 Page 16 LC Ind
21. ument is detail the features application and operation of the LC Ind radio modem After introductions about the products and the test and configuration software MTC Work bench the operation of the modems will be described in two distinct parts e The Basic operation chapter describes the MTC workbench operation e The Advanced operation is more dedicated to the users who want to program and configure the modem directly It states all the available commands and registers and gives some operation examples A second set of appendix gives additional information about operation standard and product s history 1 2 LC Ind Modem overview The LC RF Modem is a module which is composed of e A control command part including programmable EEPROM permanent memory e A radio part transmission reception The LC Ind radio modem is a FSK half duplex FM radio transceiver data transmission and reception The LC Ind operates in the 433 MHz frequency band in compliance with the ETSI 300 220 European regulation Operating a 10 mW radiated power LC Ind modems can be used without any license The LC Ind modem is based on synthesised frequency maximum of 10 channels with a 175 KHz spacing in order to operate in any condition and in most environments Numerous parameters such as transmission rates serial and radio links radio channel data format etc can be programmed via the serial link using Hayes or AT commands Those pro
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