ThingMagic Mercury xPRESS Platform v1.7 User Manual
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A D I V I S I O N O F T R I M B L E
Introduction
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Introduction
The Mercury
®
xPRESS RFID Solution Development Platform is a microcontroller-based
hardware and software platform designed to enable rapid development of custom finished
UHF RFID readers using the ThingMagic Mercury6e-Series modules (M6e, Micro, and
Micro-LTE). The xPRESS Platform is designed to support multiple interfaces for use
across a wide range of applications via support for option modules.
Note
The Micro and Micro-LTE RFID modules are identical except for read rate
performance, so all information given for the “Micro” applies to both products.
This document is broken down into the following chapters:
Regulatory and Safety Compliance
- Regulatory and safety information that must be
followed if using the xPRESS platform outside of a development environment.
Includes advice for best practices to avoid Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) damage.
- This chapter instructs the user how to connect the xPRESS
motherboard to a host PC and run the pre-installed RFID Sensor application.
- This chapter provides details about installing and
operating the optional modules, including Bluetooth, WiFi, Power-Over-Ethernet
(POE) and GPS.
Installing Developer Tools on Windows OS
- This chapter provides detailed instructions
for installing 3rd-party development tools and the ThingMagic SDK on a Windows PC
in order to develop or modify ThingMagic applications (including the RFID Sensor
sample application).
Installing Developer Tools on LINUX OS
- This chapter provides detailed instructions for
installing 3rd-party development tools and the ThingMagic SDK on a LINUX PC in
order to develop or modify ThingMagic applications (including the RFID Sensor
sample application).
Using the Developer Toolkit
- This chapter explains how to build and download an
application on both Windows and LINUX PC hosts.
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This chapter provides information on the sample
applications included with the development platform (initially only the RFID Sensor)
for programmers who would like to modify it.
- This chapter provides detailed information about the
xPRESS platform hardware architecture, controls, indicators, and interfaces.
- This chapter provides detailed information about the
xPRESS platform software architecture and the development tools used to create
applications for the platform.