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Z-tool and Z-converter

Santhosh Johnson K
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what is the role of Z-tool and Z-converter in CC2538?

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    Z-Tool is a development application which can be used to communicate with TI ZigBee target device development system. Communication takes place using a standard RS-232 serial communication port on a Windows based PC. It is used for development, testing, and debugging purposes.

    In order to build a ZigBee Smart Energy certified device, one must support Certificate Based Key Establishment
    (CBKE). CBKE requires the use of an ECC library from Certicom and a method to install certificate data into the
    device. One of the methods used to install Certicom certificate data is by using Z-Tool, a PC tool that can communicate
    with the device using the Monitor and Test API over a UART port. Test scripts are provided to inject test certificates
    into the device for development purposes only.
    The test certificate data comes in a format that a Z-Tool script does not understand, and therefore a tool called ZConverter has been provided to take Certicom certificate data as input (the actual input requires no carriage returns in order for Z-Converter to process the data correctly), and then generate arrays that can copied and pasted into a Z-Tool script.