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Simple to use
Transparent operation
Single chip solution
Data acquisition
Alarm systems
Hand held terminals
Typical Application
Serial Data In
TxD
RxD
Serial Data Out
Data Ready*
Busy*
TxEn
Send Data*
User
Application
NKM2401
RF Transmitter
RF Receiver
NKM2401
User
Application
* Optional handshake lines
Introduction
Radio links comprising pre built and tested transmitter and receiver modules are now readily available
from a number of suppliers. These are easily connected to standard encoders and decoders allowing
simple On/Off remote control systems to be assembled.
However, sending data over these radio links is difficult as they are generally AC coupled, bandwidth
limited (100Hz to 5KHz typical) and may be subject to noise and interference. The receiver may
produce digital 鈥榳hite noise鈥?on its data output in the absence of any signal and in addition requires some
time to extract the data from the received audio signal. The format of the data must also be given
consideration as asymmetric data such as Serial ASCII (RS232) which is non DC balanced will cause the
鈥榙ata slicer鈥?in the receiver to give poor performance leading to errors after consecutive sequences of
ones or zeros. There may also be considerable pulse width distortion and 鈥榡itter鈥?produced by the link.
These radio links cannot therefore, usually be successfully connected directly to a UART, as such
devices will not tolerate these errors and almost certainly will produce erroneous data which may be
worse than useless !
NKM2401 Issue 1.1 Nov-98
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