Designed in Australia, the DAB+ FM Digital Radio Development Board provides a platform for developing and evaluating DAB+ and FM receiver. The board contains a Keystone T1_L4A_8290C DAB/FM module and a Microchip PIC18F14K50 microcontroller. The T1_L4A_8290C module is an ultra low power DAB/FM receiver module with the following features: ETSI EN 300 401 compliant receiver DAB/DAB+ sensitivity to -99dBm (typical) Decodes multiple audio services up to 256kbps without external RAM FM with RDS (*** RDS reception only available for station name, station text and genre and is subjected to certain condition of power level and frequency deviation) Combined antenna input for FM / Band3 Support DAB L-Band reception (*** Although the Keystone module supports L-Band, the SMA connector has no connection to the L-Band pin, customer will need to solder a separate antenna and other passive components to make it work.) Serial control interface RoHS compliant The Microchip PIC18F14K50 provides a USB to Serial interface for the T1_L4A_8290C module to communicate with the host PC. Despite the sample code provided in this Development Board for communicating with the board is based on serial communication, user can analyse the serial communication and implements a driverless HID protocol by rewriting the firmware on the PIC18F14K50. What can you do with it? Build a PC controlled DAB+ FM Digital Radio Build a CAR PC DAB+ FM Digital Radio Build a standalone DAB+ FM Digital Radio (requires external microcontroller) MonkeyBoard DAB DAB+ FM Digital Radio Development Board

22 Nov 2012, 00:00