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CC2500
bytes that contain CRC status, link quality
indication and RSSI value.
15.7 Packet Handling in Firmware
When implementing a packet oriented radio
protocol in firmware, the MCU needs to know
when a packet has been received/transmitted.
Additionally, for packets longer than 64 bytes
the RX FIFO needs to be read while in RX and
the TX FIFO needs to be refilled while in TX.
This means that the MCU needs to know the
number of bytes that can be read from or
written to the RX FIFO and TX FIFO
respectively. There are two possible solutions
to get the necessary status information:
a) Interrupt driven solution
In both RX and TX one can use one of the GDO
pins to give an interrupt when a sync word has
been received/transmitted and/or when a
complete
packet
has
been
received/transmitted (IOCFGx=0x06). In
addition, there are two configurations for the
IOCFGx register that are associated with the
RX FIFO (IOCFGx=0x00 and IOCFGx=0x01)
and two that are associated with the TX FIFO
(IOCFGx=0x02 and IOCFG=0x03) that can be
used as interrupt sources to provide
information on how many bytes are in the RX
FIFO and TX FIFO respectively. See Table 33.
b) SPI polling
The PKTSTATUS register can be polled at a
given rate to get information about the current
GDO2 and GDO0 values respectively. The
RXBYTES and TXBYTES registers can be
polled at a given rate to get information about
the number of bytes in the RX FIFO and TX
FIFO respectively. Alternatively, the number of
bytes in the RX FIFO and TX FIFO can be
read from the chip status byte returned on the
MISO line each time a header byte, data byte,
or command strobe is sent on the SPI bus.
It is recommended to employ an interrupt
driven solution as high rate SPI polling will
reduce the RX sensitivity. Furthermore, as
explained in Section 10.3 and the CC2500
Errata Notes [1], when using SPI polling there
is a small, but finite, probability that a single
read from registers PKTSTATUS, RXBYTES and
TXBYTES is being corrupt. The same is the
case when reading the chip status byte.
Refer to the TI website for SW examples ([6]
and [7]).
16 Modulation Formats
CC2500 supports amplitude, frequency and
phase shift modulation formats. The desired
modulation format is set in the
MDMCFG2.MOD_FORMAT register.
Optionally, the data stream can be Manchester
coded by the modulator and decoded by the
demodulator. This option is enabled by setting
MDMCFG2.MANCHESTER_EN=1. Manchester
encoding is not supported at the same time as
using the FEC/Interleaver option.
16.1 Frequency Shift Keying
2-FSK can optionally be shaped by a
Gaussian filter with BT=1, producing a GFSK
modulated signal.
The frequency deviation is programmed with
the DEVIATION_M and DEVIATION_E values
in the DEVIATN register. The value has an
exponent/mantissa form, and the resultant
deviation is given by:
f_dev 
f _xosc
2¹⁷
 (8 
DEVIATION
_
M )  2^{DEVIATION _ E}
The symbol encoding is shown in Table 23.
Format
2-FSK/GFSK
Symbol
‘0’
‘1’
Coding
– Deviation
+ Deviation
Table 23: Symbol Encoding for 2-FSK/GFSK
Modulation
16.2 Minimum Shift Keying
When using MSK¹, the complete transmission
(preamble, sync word and payload) will be
MSK modulated.
Phase shifts are performed with a constant
transition time.
1 _{Identical to offset QPSK with half-sine}
shaping (data coding may differ)
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