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Imote2
The Imote2 is an advanced wireless sensor node platform. It is built around the low power PXA271 XScale CPU and also integrates an 802.15.4 compliant radio. The design is modular and stackable with interface connectors for expansion boards on both the top and bottom sides. The top connectors provide a standard set of I/O signals for basic expansion boards. The bottom connectors provide additional high-speed interfaces for application specific I/O. A battery board supplying system power can be connected to either side.

Processor
The Imote2 contains the Intel PXA271 CPU. This processor can operate in a low voltage (0.85V), low frequency (13MHz) mode, hence enabling very low power operation. The frequency can be scaled from 13MHz to 416MHz with Dynamic Voltage Scaling. The processor has a number of different low power modes such as sleep and deep sleep. The PXA271 is a multi-chip module that includes three chips in a single package, the CPU with 256kB SRAM, 32MB SDRAM and
32MB of FLASH memory. It integrates many I/O options making it extremely flexible in supporting different sensors, A/Ds, radios, etc. These I/O features include I2C, 2 Synchronous Serial Ports (SPI) one of which is dedicated to the radio, 3 high speed UARTs, GPIOs, SDIO, USB client and host, AC97 and I2S audio
codec interfaces, a fast infrared port, PWM, a Camera Interface and a high speed bus (Mobile Scaleable Link). The processor also supports numerous timers as well as a real time clock. The PXA271 includes a wireless MMX coprocessor to accelerate multimedia operations. It adds 30 new media processor (DSP) instructions, support for alignment and video operations and compatibility with Intel MMX and SSE integer instructions. For more information on the PXA271, please refer to
the Intel/Marvell datasheet.

Radio & Antenna
The Imote2 uses the CC2420 IEEE 802.15.4 radio transceiver from Texas Instruments. The CC2420 supports a 250kb/s data rate with 16 channels in the 2.4GHz band. The Imote2 platform integrates a 2.4GHz surface mount antenna which provides a nominal range of about 30 meters. For longer range a SMA connector can be soldered directly to the board to connect to an external antenna.

Power Supply
The Imote2 can be powered by various means:
Primary Battery: This is typically accomplished by attaching a Crossbow Imote2 Battery Board to either the basic or advanced connectors.
Rechargeable Battery: This requires a specially configured battery board attached to either the basic or advanced connectors. The Imote2 has a built-in charger for
Li-Ion or Li-Poly batteries.
USB: The Imote2 can be powered via the on-board mini-B USB connector. This mode can also be used to charge an
attached battery.