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2400 – 2483.5 MHz RF Transceiver

Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) transceiver

250 kbps data rate, 2 MChip/s chip rate

O-QPSK with half sine pulse shaping modulation

Very low current consumption (RX: 18.8 mA, TX: 17.4 mA)

High sensitivity (-95 dBm)

High adjacent channel rejection (30/45 dB)

High alternate channel rejection (53/54 dB)

On-chip VCO, LNA and PA

Low supply voltage (2.1 – 3.6 V) with on-chip voltage regulator

Programmable output power

I/Q low-IF soft decision receiver

I/Q direct up-conversion transmitter

Separate transmit and receive FIFOs

128 byte transmit data FIFO

128 byte receive data FIFO

Very few external components

Only reference crystal and a minimised number of passives

No external filters needed

Easy configuration interface

4-wire SPI interface

Serial clock up to 10 MHz

CC2420

802.15.4 MAC hardware support:

Automatic preamble generator

Synchronisationword insertion/detection

CRC-16 computation and checking over the MAC payload

Clear Channel Assessment

Energy detection / digital RSSI

Link Quality Indication

Full automatic MAC security (CTR, CBC-MAC, CCM)

802.15.4 MAC hardware security:

Automated security operations within the receive and transmit FIFOs.

CTR mode encryption / decryption

CBC-MAC authentication

CCM encryption / decryption and authentication

Stand-alone AES encryption

Development tools available

Fully equipped development kit

Demonstration board reference design with microcontroller code

Easy-to-use software for generating the CC2420 configu- ration data

Small size QLP-48 package, 7 x 7 mm

Complies with EN 300 328, EN 300 440 class 2, FCC CFR47 part 15 and ARIB STD-T66

SWRS041B

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