Texas Instruments 3138 155 232931 Application Circuit, Input / output matching, Bias resistor

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9 Application Circuit

Few external components are required for the operation of CC2420. A typical application circuit is shown in Figure 4. The external components shown are described in Table 1 and typical values are given in Table 2. Note that most decoupling capacitors are not shown on the application circuits. For the complete reference design please refer to Texas Instrument’s web site: http://www.ti.com.

9.1Input / output matching

The RF input/output is high impedance and differential. The optimum differential load for the RF port is 95+j187 Ω.

When using an unbalanced antenna such as a monopole, a balun should be used in order to optimise performance. The balun can be implemented using low-cost discrete inductors and capacitors only or in combination with transmission lines.

Figure 3 shows the balun implemented in

atwo-layer reference design. It consists of a half wave transmission line, C81, L61, L71 and L81. The circuit will present the optimum RF termination to CC2420 with a 50 Ω load on the antenna connection. This circuit has improved EVM performance, sensitivity and harmonic suppression compared to the design in Figure 4. Please refer to the input/output matching section on page 54 for more details.

The balun in Figure 4 consists of C61, C62, C71, C81, L61, L62 and L81, and will present the optimum RF termination to CC2420 with a 50 Ω load on the antenna connection. A low pass filter may be added to add margin to the FCC requirement on second harmonic level.

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If a balanced antenna such as a folded dipole is used, the balun can be omitted. If the antenna also provides a DC path from the TXRX_SWITCH pin to the RF pins, inductors are not needed for DC bias.

Figure 5 shows a suggested application circuit using a differential antenna. The antenna type is a standard folded dipole. The dipole has a virtual ground point; hence bias is provided without degradation in antenna performance.

9.2Bias resistor

The bias resistor R451 is used to set an accurate bias current.

9.3Crystal

An external crystal with two loading capacitors (C381 and C391) is used for the crystal oscillator. See page 53 for details.

9.4Voltage regulator

The on chip voltage regulator supplies all

1.8V power supply inputs. C42 is required for stability of the regulator. A series resistor may be used to comply with the ESR requirement.

9.5Power supply decoupling and filtering

Proper power supply decoupling must be used for optimum performance. The placement and size of the decoupling capacitors and the power supply filtering are very important to achieve the best performance in an application. Texas Instruments provides a compact reference design that should be followed very closely..

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Contents Applications Key FeaturesProduct Description Table of contents RF Data Buffering Ordering Information General Information ITU-T AbbreviationsReferences Features Parameter Min Typ Max Units Condition Absolute Maximum RatingsOperating Conditions Parameter Min Max Units ConditionParameter Min Typ Max Unit Condition / Note Electrical SpecificationsOverall Transmit SectionReceive Section If Section Rssi / Carrier SenseFrequency Synthesizer Section VDD Digital Inputs/OutputsPower Supply Battery MonitorVoltage Regulator CC2420 Pin Pin Name Pin type Pin Description Pin AssignmentAvddadc Circuit Description CC2420 simplified block diagramCC2420 Bias resistor Power supply decoupling and filteringApplication Circuit Input / output matchingDescription Overview of external componentsTransceiver Transceiver Bill of materials for the application circuits Ieee 802.15.4 Modulation Format Symbol Chip sequence C0, C1, C2, … , C31Phase Configuration OverviewSmartRF Studio user interface Evaluation SoftwarePin configuration 13 4-wire Serial Configuration and Data InterfaceRegister access Parameter Symbol Min Max Units Conditions SPI timing specification Status byteRAM access Configuration registers write and read operations via SPI Multiple SPI access CC2420 RAM Memory Space Fifo accessAddress Byte Ordering Name Description Microcontroller Interface and Pin Description Configuration interfaceRxfifo overflow Receive modePin activity examples during receive Demodulator, Symbol Synchroniser and Data Decision Frame Format Demodulator Simplified Block DiagramMAC protocol data unit Transmitted Synchronisation Header Length fieldFormat of the Frame Control Field FCF Frame check sequence Buffered receive mode Buffered transmit modeRF Data Buffering Fifop Unbuffered, serial modeAcknowledge Frames Address RecognitionAcknowledge frame format Radio control state machine Radio control states Ieee 802.15.4 Nonce MAC Security Operations Encryption and AuthenticationKeys Nonce / counterIn-line security operations CC2420 Security Flag Byte Stand-alone encryptionCBC-MAC CTR mode encryption / decryption21.7 CCM Timing Linear if and AGC SettingsMode LMIC Time Rssi / Energy DetectionValue Link Quality IndicationRF Level dBm Frequency and Channel Programming Clear Channel Assessment27.1 VCO Output Power ProgrammingVCO and PLL Self-Calibration Voltage RegulatorVoltage regulator, simplified schematic Battery MonitorCrystal Oscillator Unmodulated carrier Input / Output MatchingTransmitter Test Modes Crystal oscillator component valuesCC2420 Modulated spectrum plot System Considerations and Guidelines Low-cost systems Battery operated systemsBER / PER measurements Antenna Considerations PCB Layout RecommendationsCC2420 Address Register Register type Description Configuration RegistersSaes Configuration registers overviewMain 0x10 Main Control Register Bit Field Name ResetXOSC16MBYPASS Reservedframemode Pancoordinator Adrdecode MDMCTRL0 0x11 Modem Control RegisterCCAHYST20 CCAMODE10 Autocrc Autoack Preamblelength RSSIVAL70 MDMCTRL1 0x12- Modem Control RegisterRssi 0x13 Rssi and CCA Status and Control Register CORRTHR40 Demodavgmode ModulationmodeTxctrl 0x15 Transmit Control Register Syncword 0x14 Sync WordRXMIXBUFCUR10 RXCTRL0 0x16 Receive control registerRXCTRL1 0x17 Receive control register Caldone Calrunning Locklength Lockstatus Fsctrl 0x18 Frequency Synthesizer Control and StatusSECMODE10 SECCTRL0 0x19 Security Control RegisterBattmonok Battmonen Battmonvoltage Battmon 0x1B Battery Monitor Control registerSECCTRL1 0x1A Security Control Register Sectxl SecrxlHSSDSRC20 SFDMUX40 CCAMUX40 IOCFG0 0x1C I/O Configuration RegisterIOCFG1 0x1D I/O Configuration Register Manfidl 0x1E Manufacturer ID, Lower 16 BitFsmtc 0x20 Finite state machine time constants Manfidh 0x1F Manufacturer ID, Upper 16 BitIsused = is * Isandmask + Isormask Manand 0x21 Manual signal and override register1Lnamixgainmodeo Manor 0x22 Manual signal or override registerAgcctrl 0x23 AGC Control VgagainoeAGCTST1 0x25 AGC Test Register AGCTST0 0x24 AGC Test RegisterAGCTST2 0x26 AGC Test Register FSTST1 0x28 Frequency Synthesizer Test Register FSTST0 0x27 Frequency Synthesizer Test RegisterFSTST2 0x29 Frequency Synthesizer Test Register Rxbpftst 0x2B Receiver Bandpass Filters Test Register FSTST3 0x2A Frequency Synthesizer Test RegisterFsmstate 0x2C Finite state machine information Adctst 0x2D ADC Test Register AdcclockdisableDactst 0x2E DAC Test Register Rxfifo 0x3F Receive Fifo Byte register Oscillator must be running for accessing the RxfifoToptst 0x2F Top Level Test Register Txfifo 0x3E Transmit Fifo Byte registerCCA test signal select table Test Output SignalsSignal output on CCA pin Description Signal output on SFD pin Description SFD test signal select tableQuad Leadless Package QLP Package Description QLPThermal resistance Recommended layout for package QLPPackage thermal properties Soldering informationTape and Reel Specification 40.3 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