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The CC1120CC1120 development kit (CC1120DKCC1120DK) provides a complete hardware performance testing and software development platform for TI's Sub-1 GHz Performance Line devices. The development kit comes with a pre-programmed packet error rate test. RF range and robustness can be tested with different RF settings, and power consumption can be measured easily.
The kit includes the SmartRF Transceiver Evaluation board (TrxEB), which has a number of useful features for development of prototype software, as well as USB connectivity making it possible to connect the board to a PC and control the radio from SmartRF Studio. In short, the TrxEB includes MSP430F5438MSP430F5438 MCU, USB interface, 128 x 64 dot matrix LCD, 3 axis digital accelerometer, and Ambient light sensor.
The SmartRF TrxEB acts as the motherboard in several evaluation modules for low power RF ICs. An Evaluation Module is a small RF module with RF chip, balun, matching filter, antenna, and I/O connectors. The modules can be plugged into the SmartRF TrxEB which lets the PC take direct control of the RF device on the EM over the USB interface. This CC1120DKCC1120DK kit contains 2 evaluation module Kits for 868MHz - 915MHz (CC1120EMK-868-915CC1120EMK-868-915). Additionald Evaluation Module Kits shown in below table can be purchased separately to support other frequencies.
The CC1120CC1120 is a fully integrated single-chip radio transceiver designed for high performance at low power and low voltage operation in cost effective wireless systems. All filters are integrated, removing the need for costly external SAW and IF filters. The device is mainly intended for the ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) and SRD (Short Range Device) frequency bands at 164-192 MHz, 410-480 MHz and 820-960 MHz.
Key Applications: Narrowband ultra low power wireless systems with channel spacing down to 12.5 kHz, 170 / 315/ 433 / 868 / 915 / 950 MHz ISM/SRD band, Wireless Metering and Wireless Smart Grid (AMR and AMI), IEEE 802.15.4g systems, Home and building automation, Wireless alarm and security systems, Industrial monitoring and control, Wireless healthcare applications, Wireless sensor networks and Active RFID, Private mobile radio | ||||||||||||
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Software Tools
SmartRF Studio
SmartRF
Studio is a Windows application that can be used to evaluate and configure Low Power RF-ICs from Texas Instruments. The application will help designers of RF systems to easily evaluate the RF-ICs at an early stage in the design process. It is especially useful for generation of configuration register values, for practical testing of the RF system and for finding optimized external component values. SmartRF Studio can be used both as a standalone application or together with applicable evaluation boards that are shipped in the RF-IC development kits.
Technical Documents
Learning Center
Design Elements
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Reference Design | TI: Reference Design for CC1120EM 169 MHz |
| Reference Design | TI: Reference Design for CC1120EM 420/470 MHz |
| Reference Design | TI: Reference Design for CC1120EM 868/915 MHz |
| Schematics | TI: Schematics File for CC1120EM 420/470 |
| Layout | TI: Layout File for CC1120EM 420/470 |
| BOM | TI: BOM File for CC1120EM 420/470 |
| Application Library | TI: Software Code for CC112x Easy Link Software |
| Application Library | TI: Software code for CC112x Examples (Rev. A) |
| Application Library | TI: Application Library for TrxEB RF PER Test Software (Rev. A) |
Video
| Video1 | Video2 |
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Kit Features
CC1120DKCC1120DK Features:
- 2 x SmartRF Transceiver EB (TrxEB)
- 2 x CC1120EMCC1120EM 868/915 MHz
- 2 x Pulse Antennas
- 1 x MSP430 Debug Probe (FET)
- 2 x Micro USB Cables
- 1 x Standard USB Cable
- 1 x 14-pin Flat Cable
- 4 x 1.5 Volt AA Batteries
- Documentation
CC1120CC1120 Features:
- High performance single chip transceiver
- Adjacent channel selectivity: 64 dB at 12.5 kHz offset
- Blocking performance: 91 dB at 10 MHz offset
- Excellent receiver sensitivity:
- 123 dBm at 1.2 kbps
- 110 dBm at 50 kbps
- 127 dBm using built-in coding gain
- Very low phase noise: -111 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset
- Suitable for systems targeting ETSI category 1 compliance in 169 MHz and 433 MHz bands
- High spectral efficiency (9.6 kbps in 12.5 kHz channel in compliance with FCC narrowbanding mandate)
- Power Supply
- Wide supply voltage range (2.0 V – 3.6 V)
- Low current consumption:
- RX: 2 mA in RX Sniff Mode
- RX: 17 mA peak current in low power mode
- RX: 22 mA peak current in high performance mode
- TX: 45 mA at +14 dBm
- Power down: 0.3 μA
- Programmable output power up to +16 dBm with 0.4 dB step size
- Automatic output power ramping
- Configurable data rates: 0 to 200 kbps
- Supported modulation formats: 2-FSK, 2- GFSK,4-FSK, 4-GFSK, MSK, OOK
- WaveMatch: Advanced digital signal processing for improved sync detect performance
- RoHS compliant 5x5mm QFN 32 package
Kit Contents
The Texas Instruments CC1120DKCC1120DK Performance Line Development Kit supplied with below contents:
- 2 x SmartRF Transceiver EB (TrxEB)
- 2 x CC1120EMCC1120EM 868/915 MHz
- 2 x Pulse Antennas
- 1 x MSP430Debug Probe (FET)
- 2 x Micro USB Cables
- 1 x Standard USB Cable
- 1 x 14-pin Flat Cable
- 4 x 1.5 Volt AA Batteries
- Documentation