Packet Handling Hardware Support; Data Whitening - Texas Instruments CC1101 Manual

15 Packet Handling Hardware Support

CC1101
The has built-in hardware support for
packet oriented radio protocols.
In transmit mode, the packet handler can be
configured to add the following elements to the
packet stored in the TX FIFO:

A programmable number of preamble
bytes

A two byte synchronization (sync) word.
Can be duplicated to give a 4-byte sync
word (recommended). It is not possible to
only insert preamble or only insert a sync
word

A CRC checksum computed over the data
field.
The recommended setting is 4-byte preamble
and 4-byte sync word, except for 500 kBaud
data rate where the recommended preamble
length is 8 bytes. In addition, the following can
be implemented on the data field and the
optional 2-byte CRC checksum:

Whitening of the data with a PN9
sequence

Forward Error Correction (FEC) by the use
of interleaving and coding of the data
(convolutional coding)
In receive mode, the packet handling support
will de-construct the
implementing the following (if enabled):

15.1 Data Whitening

From a radio perspective, the ideal over the air
data are random and DC free. This results in
the smoothest power distribution over the
occupied bandwidth. This also gives the
regulation loops in the receiver uniform
operation conditions (no data dependencies).
Real data often contain long sequences of
zeros and ones. In these cases, performance
can be improved by whitening the data before
transmitting, and de-whitening the data in the
receiver.
data packet by
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
Preamble detection

Sync word detection

CRC computation and CRC check

One byte address check

Packet length check (length byte checked
against a programmable maximum length)

De-whitening

De-interleaving and decoding
Optionally, two status bytes (see Table 27 and
Table 28) with RSSI value, Link Quality
Indication, and CRC status can be appended
in the RX FIFO.
Bit Field Name Description
7:0 RSSI RSSI value
Table 27: Received Packet Status Byte 1
(first byte appended after the data)
Bit Field Name Description
7 CRC_OK 1: CRC for received data OK
(or CRC disabled)
0: CRC error in received data
6:0 LQI Indicating the link quality
Table 28: Received Packet Status Byte 2
(second byte appended after the data)
Note: Register fields that control the
packet handling features should only be
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altered when
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With , this can be done automatically.
By setting PKTCTRL0.WHITE_DATA=1, all
data, except the preamble and the sync word
will be XOR-ed with a 9-bit pseudo-random
(PN9) sequence before being transmitted. This
is shown in Figure 18. At the receiver end, the
data are XOR-ed with the same pseudo-
random sequence. In this way, the whitening is
reversed, and the original data appear in the
receiver. The PN9 sequence is initialized to all
1‟s.
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is in the IDLE state.
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