Detailed Theory of Operation: Transceiver Board
4.2.4.9 Power-Control IC (PCIC) U104
The PCIC, U104, contains all of the digital, and most of the analog, circuits needed to control the
transmitter power amplifier. Host control is through a 3-wire, smart SPI interface. Pin descriptions are
shown in
Table
Pin
1
2
3
4
5
6, 7
8
9
10, 13
11, 12
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
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Table 4-3. Power Control IC (U104) Pin Descriptions
Name
RFIN
Detector voltage input to ALC
T1
Test point
CI
External capacitor for integrator time constant
INT
Integrator output; control voltage to amplifiers
CJ
External capacitor for PA rise and fall times
VL, CL
External capacitor for PA rise and fall times
GND1
Ground
F168
Reference clock input, 2.1 MHz
QX, CQX
External capacitor for voltage multiplier
Q, CQ
External capacitor for voltage multiplier
V10
Voltage multiplier output
VG
Internal band-gap reference voltage
V45
Regulated 4.5 Vdc output
V5EXT
Power supply input for internal voltage regulator
VAR2
Buffered D/A output
VLIM
Test point for internal D/A No.2 voltage
VAR1
Buffered D/A output
RS
Asynchronous reset input
NA
Spare pin
RX
RX/TX mode control-bit output
VAR3
Buffered D/A output
GND2
Ground
CLK
SPI clock input
BPOS
Power supply input
DATA
SPI data input/output
CEX
SPI chip select input
TEMP
Temperature sensor input
RSET
External resistor; used to set the temperature cutback rate
ANO
Switched BPOS output
Description
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