Echelon Mini FX/PL Examples - Manual (Page 4)

iv Preface
Welcome
The Mini FX/PL Evaluation Kit is a complete hardware and software platform for
evaluating the L
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® 2.0 platform and developing L ON W ORKS devices based on PL
3150 ® and PL 3170 Smart Transceivers. The Mini kit lets you build Neuron ® C
applications and download them to L
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W
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devices, and test L
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W
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devices.
You can use the Mini kit to develop prototype or production devices, particularly in the
rapidly growing, price-sensitive mass markets of smart light switches, thermostats, and
other simple devices and sensors.
Purpose
This document describes the Neuron C example applications included with the Mini
FX/PL Evaluation Kit that you can run on your PL 3150/PL 3170 EVBs. You can use
these examples to test the I/O devices on the Mini Gizmo I/O Boards that you can attach
to your PL 3150/PL 3170 EVBs, and create simple managed and self-installed
L
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W
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networks. You can browse the Neuron C code used by these examples to
learn how to develop your own device applications.
Audience
This guide is intended for device and system designers with an understanding of control
networks.
Hardware Requirements
Requirements for computers running the Mini FX/PL Evaluation Kit are listed below:
• Microsoft
® Windows Vista ® or Microsoft Windows ® XP. Echelon recommends that
you install the latest service pack available from Microsoft for your version of
Windows.
• Intel® Pentium ® III 600MHz processor or faster, and meeting the minimum Windows
requirements for the selected version of Windows.
o
120 to 350 megabytes (MB) free hard-disk space, plus the minimum Windows
requirements for the selected version of Windows.
o
The Mini FX Application requires 90 MB of free space.
o
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which is required to run the Mini kit,
requires 30 MB of free space.
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The LonScanner ™ Protocol Analyzer (Demo Edition), which is included with the
Mini kit software, requires 26 MB of free space.
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If you install Adobe ® Reader 9.1 from the Mini FX Evaluation Kit CD, you need
an additional 204 MB of free space. You need Adobe Reader or another PDF
viewer to view the Mini FX/PL Evaluation Kit documentation.
• 512 MB RAM minimum.
• Note: Windows Vista testing for the Mini FX Application has been performed on
computers that have a minimum of 2 GB of RAM. For complete Windows Vista
requirements, refer to