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Radio module reference designs promise compliance

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team May 23, 2003

New RF module reference designs allow OEMs to take the radio design and drop it right into their PCB or build a separate module, with the confidence that the radio will meet FCC/CE/ETSI certification.

; This has been achieved through a strategic technical alliance with LS Research, which recently completed two other radio designs for the XE1202 transceiver, an ETSI compliant 868MHz reference design module for Europe, and an ETSI/FCC 433MHz reference design for Asia.

LS Research is an RF design partner and compliance facility working closely with Xemics to provide powerful solutions for customers.

Xemics will use LS Research's excellent RF expertise and FCC compliance abilities to optimise the complete radio module for the XE1202.

This relationship will provide customers with a robust new radio module that meets pre-FCC/CE/ETSI certification, allowing customers to reduce the design/development timeline and minimize the risks for final product certification.

The 915MHz FCC compliant reference design for the XE1202, targeted for North America is in widespread production now.

The XE1202 can operate in both European (868-870MHz) and North American (902-928MHz) as well as Asian frequency bands.

The programmable on-chip filters allow for dynamic switching between narrowband and wideband operations, without any modifications to the external RF front-end design.

The XE1202 can transmit and receive data from as low as 4.8 right up to 76.8Kbit/s, RF output power can be programmed up to +15dBm (31.5mW) and the current consumption while in reception mode is 12mA.

The on-chip frequency synthesiser ensures that the chip can handle multichannel as well as frequency hopping spread-spectrum communications.

The XM1202-C868LSR module has an output power of +8dBm with receiver sensitivity of -111dBm and is compliant to ETSI EN300 220 and ETSI EN301489 regulations.

The XM1202-C433LSR module has an output power of 8dBm and receiver sensitivity of -110dBm and module is compliant with ETSI300 220, ETSI EN301489, and FCC part 15.231 regulations.

The previously released XM1202-C915LSR module has +11dBm output power and -111dBm receiver sensitivity.

The module is available for $35 in single quantities.

All three modules are available through Future Electronics.