Using 3rd party CC2530 modules

I would like to talk about 3rd party CC2530 modules - ( a first one and a second one ) that I bought from Aliexpress. In a previous article, I talked about CC2530DK from TI. In this post, using SmartRF05EB to debug 3rd party module is discussed.

Figure. A small CC2530 module whose size is 13 mm x 18 mm.

Mesh Bee - JN5168

Mesh Bee is a 2.4GHz wireless transceiver mady by seeed studio. It uses JN516x wireless chip from NXP. It is open hardware, open source. The IDE and tools from NXP are also free.

CC2531 Zigbee USB Dongle

In this article, we discuss about using CC2531 USB Evaluation Module Kit for wireless communication. At first, a zip file - CC USB Firmware Library and Examples, was downloaded from TI's website. After that, USB RF Modem Example in CC USB Software Examples User’s Guide was tested.

CC2531 Zigbee Wireless USB Dongle

Wireless Communication using CC2530 Zigbee Wireless MCU

CC2530 is an system-on-chip (SoC) solution for IEEE 802.15.4 and Zigbee that combines RF transceiver and 8051 MCU. To develop a wireless module using it, we had bought a CC2530DK devolopment kit that consists of 2 CC2530EM Evaluation Modules, 2 SmartRF05EB Evaluation Boards, and a CC2531 USB Dongle. It cost about USD 400. At first, we installed SmartRF Studio which was available for free at TI's website.

CC2530DK