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LoRa
®
MOTE USERS GUIDE
Preface
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the
LoRa
®
Mote and attached LoRa
®
Technology Module. Topics discussed in this chapter
include:
Document Layout
Conventions Used in this Guide
Recommended Reading
The Microchip Website
Development Systems Customer Change Notification Service
Customer Support
Revision History
DOCUMENT LAYOUT
This document describes how to use the LoRa
®
Mote as a demonstration to show how
LoRa technology communication works. The document is organized as follows:
Chapter 1. “Introduction” – This chapter describes the LoRa
®
Mote and
presents various modes of operation.
Chapter 2. “Getting Started” – This chapter describes the two main
communication methods, and the hardware requirements for getting started with
the LoRa
®
Mote.
Appendix A. “Board of Schematics and Bill of Materials” – This appendix
provides the LoRa
®
Mote schematics and the Bill of Materials (BOM).
Appendix B. “Legacy Board Schematics and Bill of Materials – This
appendix provides the LoRa
®
Mote schematics and the Bill of Materials (BOM) for
the Legacy Mote Design; along with brief descriptions of changes between
designs.
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS
All documentation becomes dated, and this manual is no exception. Microchip tools and
documentation are constantly evolving to meet customer needs, so some actual dialogs and/
or tool descriptions may differ from those in this document. Please refer to our website
(www.microchip.com) to obtain the latest documentation available.
Documents are identified with a “DS” number. This number is located on the bottom of each
page, in front of the page number. The numbering convention for the DS number is
“DSXXXXXXXXA”, where “XXXXXXXX” is the document number and “A” is the revision level
of the document.
For the most up-to-date information on development tools, see the MPLAB
®
IDE online help.
Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available online help files.
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®
Mote User’s Guide
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CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS GUIDE
This manual uses the following documentation conventions:
DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS
Description Represents Examples
Arial font:
Italic characters Referenced books MPLAB
®
IDE User’s Guide
Emphasized text ...is the only compiler...
Initial caps A window the Output window
A dialog the Settings dialog
A menu selection select Enable Programmer
Quotes A field name in a window or
dialog
“Save project before build”
Underlined, italic text with
right angle bracket
A menu path File>Save
Bold characters A dialog button Click OK
A tab Click the Power tab
N‘Rnnnn A number in verilog format,
where N is the total number of
digits, R is the radix and n is a
digit.
4‘b0010, 2‘hF1
Text in angle brackets < > A key on the keyboard Press <Enter>, <F1>
Courier New font:
Plain Courier New Sample source code #define START
Filenames autoexec.bat
File paths c:\mcc18\h
Keywords _asm, _endasm, static
Command-line options -Opa+, -Opa-
Bit values 0, 1
Constants 0xFF, ‘A’
Italic Courier New A variable argument file.o, where file can be
any valid filename
Square brackets [ ] Optional arguments mcc18 [options] file
[options]
Curly brackets and pipe
character: { | }
Choice of mutually exclusive
arguments; an OR selection
errorlevel {0|1}
Ellipses... Replaces repeated text var_name [,
var_name...]
Represents code supplied by
user
void main (void)
{ ...
}
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RECOMMENDED READING
This user’s guide describes how to use the LoRa
®
Mote. Other useful documents are
listed below. The following Microchip documents are available and recommended as
supplemental reference resources:
RN2483 Low-Power Long-Range LoRa
®
Technology Transceiver Module
Data Sheet
(DS50002346)
This data sheet provides detailed specifications for the RN2483 module.
RN2483 LoRa
®
Technology Module Command Reference User’s Guide
(DS40001784)
This user’s guide provides specifications about the commands to be used with the
LoRa
®
module.
RN2483 LoRa
®
Technology PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board Users Guide
(DS50002366)
This user’s guide describes how to configure and use the LoRa
®
Daughter Board.
RN2903 Low-Power Long-Range LoRa
®
Technology Transceiver Module Data
Sheet (DS50002390)
This data sheet provides detailed specifications for the RN2903 module.
RN2903 LoRa
®
Technology Module Command Reference User’s Guide
(DS40001811)
This user’s guide provides specifications about the commands to be used with the
LoRa
®
module.
RN2903 LoRa
®
Technology PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board User’s Guide
(DS50002424)
This user’s guide describes how to configure and use the LoRa
®
Daughter Board.
LoRa
®
Technology Evaluation Suite User’s Guide (DS40001847)
This user’s guide describes how to use the LoRa
®
Technology Evaluation Kit along
with the LoRa Development Utility Application Graphic User Interface (GUI) as a
demonstration platform to show how to create and manage a LoRa Technology
Network.
To obtain any of Microchip’s documents, visit the Microchip website at
www.microchip.com.
THE MICROCHIP WEBSITE
Microchip provides online support via our website at www.microchip.com. This website
is used as a means to make files and information easily available to customers. Acces-
sible by using your favorite Internet browser, the website contains the following infor-
mation:
Product Support – Data sheets and errata, application notes and sample
programs, design resources, user’s guides and hardware support documents,
latest software releases and archived software
General Technical Support – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), technical
support requests, online discussion groups, Microchip consultant program
member listing
Business of Microchip – Product selector and ordering guides, latest Microchip
press releases, listing of seminars and events, listings of Microchip sales offices,
distributors and factory representatives

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