Wednesday, May 30, 2007

dBm to mW conversion


dBm Watts dBm Watts dBm Watts
0 1.0 mW 16 40 mW 32 1.6 W
1 1.3 mW 17 50 mW 33 2.0 W
2 1.6 mW 18 63 mW 34 2.5 W
3 2.0 mW 19 79 mW 35 3.2 W
4 2.5 mW 20 100 mW 36 4.0 W
5 3.2 mW 21 126 mW 37 5.0 W
6 4 mW 22 158 mW 38 6.3 W
7 5 mW 23 200 mW 39 8.0 W
8 6 mW 24 250 mW 40 10 W
9 8 mW 25 316 mW 41 13 W
10 10 mW 26 398 mW 42 16 W
11 13 mW 27 500 mW 43 20 W
12 16 mW 28 630 mW 44 25 W
13 20 mW 29 800 mW 45 32 W
14 25 mW 30 1.0 W 46 40 W
15 32 mW 31 1.3 W 47 50 W


Power Measurement Units


dBm - decibels relative to one milliwatt

dBW - decibels relative to one Watt

Gain Measurement Units


dBi - decibels relative to an isotrope

dBd - decibels relative to a dipole

Monday, April 9, 2007

ZigBee Development Kits


Manufacturer Microprocessor Compiler nodes Kit Price Unit Price Description
Jennic 16MHz, 32-bit RISC GNU tools 5 $999 ~$2 (qty 100K)* Wireless microcontrollers article
Renesas M16C Renesas tools 4 $700
Renesas Zigbee Stack
Freescale MC13214 HC08 MCU CodeWarrior 5 $500?

Figure 8 Z-Stack,Zigbee also on Coldfire and PowerQUICC

TI Chipcon 2420 Chipcon 8051 IAR 5 $5000 ~$3 (qty 100K)
Ember XAP2 16-bit RISC Cambridge 2 $2500
1st Zigbee on a chip
InSight network debug
Microchip PIC18LF4620 MPLAB PIC 2 $269 $2.99(qty 10K) includes 1 ZENA Network Analyzer
Atmel AVR 8-bit RISC IAR or GNU tools 5 $500 ?
Silicon Labs 8051 Keil (eval copy) 6 $950

RadioPulse 8051 Keil ? ?
Newest Zigbee-compliant Platform
OKI ZDK Oki ARM7 IAR 2 $499
Oki ML7065 radio
Other Zigbee Implementations:
IMEC ? ? 1 ?
Provides very low-power UWB (3-10MHz) 802.15a PHY
Maxstream XBee ? ? 1 $339
Complete ready-to-use module (not SDK)