CC2420ZRTC Datasheet, PDF (7/96 Pages) Texas Instruments – 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 / ZigBee-ready RF Transceiver

CC2420
3 Features
 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
 802.15.4 MAC hardware support:
 Automatic preamble generator
 Synchronisation
word
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
SWRS041c
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