what skills do real RF people need?

I would love to get invloved in adding RF to an existing product of mine and have noticed the Nordic IC’s and modules on the web site and it would seem that these would be the ideal solution to adding RF to my product. I have some questions though:

What skill set do you need to begin to make serious attempts at building and designing in RF?

If I purchased the MIRF modules, what board would I need (from the web site) to get these modules talking to each other (or would I be better off buying the Noridc Eval kit?)

What issues will I face in starting this development?

Does anyone want to do it for me ! :slight_smile:

bluemore:
I would love to get invloved in adding RF to an existing product of mine and have noticed the Nordic IC’s and modules on the web site and it would seem that these would be the ideal solution to adding RF to my product. I have some questions though:

What skill set do you need to begin to make serious attempts at building and designing in RF?

If I purchased the MIRF modules, what board would I need (from the web site) to get these modules talking to each other (or would I be better off buying the Noridc Eval kit?)

What issues will I face in starting this development?

Does anyone want to do it for me ! :slight_smile:

You don’t really need any RF experience, unless you are designing your own boards using the Nordic chips. You will need some experience of embedded system design, in order to interface the chips/modules to your product.

I’ve bought two of the SFE modules for my prototype system which consists of a sensor unit with a three-axis accelerometer interfaced to an MSP430F1232, and a main processing unit with an LPC2106 and graphics display.

I’m glad I bought the Nordic kit, as I have a working system to start with. I can now incorporate one SFE module in one of my prototype systems and get it working with one of the kit modules interfaced to my PC, then do the same with my other prototype, and finally get the two prototypes communicating with each other. It should be relatively trouble-free, with thisn approach.

Leon