ANT Application Notes
This page has all of the ANT application notes. Reading and using these notes will help you to make excellent implementations of the ANT protocol in your software and embedded devices.
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| AN01 Implementing A Receiver for Tx Only Devices | 160 KB | 1.6 | |
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Gives guidance for software state machines as to how to receive transmitted data from ANT sensors.
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| AN02 Device Pairing | 231 KB | 2.1 | |
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Details the use of the pairing bit in the ANT protocol.
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| AN03 Dynamic Linking with ANT DLL | 84 KB | 1.3 | |
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Details the use of the ANT DLL for PC applications using the ANT USB parts.
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| AN04 Burst Transfers | 184 KB | 2.1 | |
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Details the burst method of communication in the ANT protocol.
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| AN05 Using Epson S1C Series Microcontroller with the nRF24AP1 | 1.91 MB | ZIP | 1.4 |
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Details how to interface with the Epson S1C series of microcontrollers. The zip file also includes embedded C reference code showing an implementation with an Epson microcontroller.
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| AN06 ANT SensRcore™ Mode | 274 KB | 1.6 | |
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Details the use of SensRcore.
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| AN07 Auto Shared Channel - Master Example | 616 KB | ZIP | 1.7 |
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Shows how an auto shared channel master is implemented. The zip file contains reference code and a PC application implementing an auto shared master channel.
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| AN08 nRF24AP1 RF Coupling Reduction Guidelines | 284 KB | 1.2 | |
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Details how to reduce any possible RF coupling issues that may be seen when using the nRF24AP1.
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| AN09 ANT Module Hand Soldering Guidelines | 160 KB | 1.1 | |
| Details guidelines for hand soldering the ANT modules
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| AN10 ANT Frequency Agility | 697 KB | ZIP | 2.2 |
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Details the solution to use frequency agility in the ANT protocol .The zip file contains a PC application that can be used to demonstrate what is shown in the documentation.
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| AN11 ANT Channel Search and Background Scanning Channel | 233 KB | 2.1 | |
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Details the ANT search and channel acquisition process
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| AN12 Proximity Search | 316 KB | 1.2 | |
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Details how to use the proximity search feature
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| AN13 Power States | 197 KB | 1.1 | |
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Details how ANT manages its power state and what the application host processor's role should be to achieve this result
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| AN14 Continuous Scanning Mode for Asynchronous Topologies | 996 KB | ZIP | 1.1 |
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Details the operation and configuration of ANT nodes in continous scanning mode. Source code for a PC application example is provided.
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| AN15 Multi Channel Design Considerations | 234 KB | 1.0 | |
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This application note addresses some important considerations that ANT developers should take into account when designing multi-channel solutions. Potential problem areas that can arise in multi channel systems are discussed, along with some best practices when using more than a single channel.
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| AN16 RSSI Extended Information | 476 KB | 1.0 | |
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Details the RSSI extended information featured.
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Important Notice: With the availability of ANTware II, the old ANTware is no longer provided, maintained and supported. ANTware II has been designed with a better feature set and user interface to meet your development needs. In this software transition period, some of our technical documents may not be updated in time to reflect the software upgrade. These documents may still use the old ANTware in examples. Should you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to let us know.