Silicon Laboratories Si4455 Manual

Silicon Laboratories Si4455 Manual

Easy-to-use, low-current ook/(g)fsk sub-ghz transceiver
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Features
Frequency
range = 283–960 MHz
Receive
sensitivity = –116 dBm
Modulation
(G)FSK
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Max output power = +13 dBm
Low active power consumption
10 mA RX
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18 mA TX @ +10 dBm
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Low standby current = 50 nA
Applications
Remote control
Home security and alarm
Telemetry
Garage and gate openers
Description
Silicon Laboratories' Si4455 is an easy-to-use, low current, sub-GHz
®
EZRadio
transceiver.
plug-and-play simplicity with the flexibility needed to handle a wide variety
of applications. The compact 3x3 mm package size combined with a low
external BOM count makes the Si4455 both space efficient and cost
effective. The +13 dBm output power and excellent sensitivity of
–116 dBm allows for a longer operating range, while the low current
consumption of 18 mA TX (at 10 dBm), 10 mA RX, and 50 nA standby,
provides for superior battery life. By fully integrating all components from
the antenna to the GPIO or SPI interface to the MCU, the Si4455 makes
realizing this performance in an application easy. Design simplicity is
further exemplified in the Wireless Development Suite (WDS) user
interface module. This configuration module provides simplified
programming options for a broad range of applications in an easy to use
format that results in both a faster and lower risk development. The
Si4455 is capable of supporting major worldwide regulatory standards
such as FCC, ETSI, ARIB and China regulatory standards.
Rev 1.1 10/13
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Max data rate = 500 kbps
Power supply = 1.8 to 3.6 V
TX and RX 64 byte FIFOs
Automatic frequency control (AFC)
Automatic gain control (AGC)
Integrated battery voltage sensor
Packet handling including
preamble, sync word detection, and
CRC
Low BOM
20-Pin 3x3 mm QFN package
Remote keyless entry
Home automation
Industrial control
Sensor networks
Health monitors
Covering
all
major
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Pin Assignments
GND
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SDN
2
RXp
3
Si4455
RXn
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TX
5
GND
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7
8
9
10
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nSEL
15
SDI
14
SDO
13
SCLK
12
nIRQ
11
GPIO1
Si4455

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  • Page 1 18 mA TX (at 10 dBm), 10 mA RX, and 50 nA standby, provides for superior battery life. By fully integrating all components from the antenna to the GPIO or SPI interface to the MCU, the Si4455 makes realizing this performance in an application easy. Design simplicity is further exemplified in the Wireless Development Suite (WDS) user interface module.
  • Page 2 Si4455 Functional Block Diagram GPIO3 GPIO2 XOUT Synthesizer 25-32MHz XO Rx Chain nSEL Rx/Tx Modem SCLK nIRQ Battery Voltage Aux ADC GPIO1 Sensor GPIO0 Rev 1.1...
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    11.1. Si4455 Top Marking ........
  • Page 4: Electrical Specifications

    Si4455 1. Electrical Specifications Table 1. Recommended Operating Conditions Parameter Symbol Test Condition Unit Ambient Temperature –40 °C Supply Voltage I/O Drive Voltage GPIO Table 2. DC Characteristics Parameter Symbol Test Condition Typ Max Unit Supply Voltage Range Power Saving Modes RC oscillator, main digital regulator, and low —...
  • Page 5 Si4455 Table 3. Synthesizer AC Electrical Characteristics Parameter Symbol Test Condition Unit Synthesizer Frequency — Range — — Synthesizer Frequency — 114.4 — 850–960 MHz RES-960 Resolution — 57.2 — 425–525 MHz RES-525 — 38.1 — 283–350 MHz RES-350 Notes: 1.
  • Page 6 Si4455 Table 4. Receiver AC Electrical Characteristics Parameter Symbol Test Condition Unit RX Frequency — Range — — RX Sensitivity (BER < 0.1%) — –116 — RX-_2 (2.4 kbps, GFSK, BT = 0.5, F = 30 kHz, 114 kHz Rx BW) (BER <...
  • Page 7 Si4455 Table 5. Transmitter AC Electrical Characteristics Parameter Symbol Test Condition Unit TX Frequency Range — — — (G)FSK Data Rate — kbps OOK Data Rate — kbps Modulation Deviation f — — 850–960 MHz Range f — — 425–525 MHz f...
  • Page 8 Si4455 Table 6. Auxiliary Block Specifications Parameter Symbol Test Condition Unit XTAL Range XTAL — RANGE 30 MHz XTAL Start-Up time Using XTAL and board layout in — — µs reference design. Start-up time will vary with XTAL type and board layout.
  • Page 9 Si4455 Table 7. Digital IO Specifications (GPIO_x, SCLK, SDO, SDI, nSEL, nIRQ) Parameter Symbol Test Condition Unit Rise Time 0.1 x V to 0.9 x V — — RISE = 10 pF, DRV<1:0> = LL = 3.3 V Fall Time 0.9 x V...
  • Page 10 Si4455 Table 8. Thermal Characteristics Parameter Symbol Test Condition Max Value Unit Thermal Resistance Junction to Ambient φ Still Air °C/W Junction Temperature °C Table 9. Absolute Maximum Ratings Parameter Value Unit to GND –0.3, +3.6 Voltage on Digital Control Inputs –0.3, V...
  • Page 11: Definition Of Test Conditions

    Si4455 1.1. Definition of Test Conditions Production Test Conditions: = +25 °C  = +3.3 VDC  Sensitivity measured at 434 MHz using a PN15 modulated input signal and with packet handler mode  enabled. External reference signal (XIN) = 1.0 V at 30 MHz, centered around 0.8 VDC...
  • Page 12: Typical Applications Schematic

    Si4455 2. Typical Applications Schematic 30 MHz SCLK Si4455 nIRQ GPIO1 100 p 100 n Figure 1. Si4455 Application Circuit Rev 1.1...
  • Page 13: Functional Description

    The Si4455 contains a power amplifier (PA) that supports output powers up to +13 dBm and is designed to support single coin cell operation with current consumption of 18 mA for +10 dBm output power. The PA is single-ended to allow for easy antenna matching and low BOM cost.
  • Page 14: Receiver Chain

    The RSSI measurement is done after the channel filter, so it is only a measurement of the desired or undesired in-band signal power. The Si4455 uses a fast response register to read RSSI and so can complete the read in 16 SPI clock cycles with no requirement to wait for CTS. The RSSI value reported by this API command can be converted to dBm using the following equation: Rev 1.1...
  • Page 15: Synthesizer

    Configuration Application GUI. 3.3. Synthesizer The Si4455 includes an integrated Sigma Delta () Fractional-N PLL synthesizer capable of operating over the bands from 283–350, 425–525, and 850–960 MHz. The synthesizer has many advantages; it provides flexibility in choosing data rate, deviation, channel frequency, and channel spacing. The transmit modulation is applied directly to the loop in the digital domain through the fractional divider, which results in very precise accuracy and control over the transmit deviation.
  • Page 16: Transmitter

    3.4. Transmitter The Si4455 contains a +13 dBm power amplifier that is capable of transmitting from –40 to +13 dBm. The output power set size is dependent on the power level and can be seen in Figure 3. The PA power level is set using the API command: PA_PWR_LVL.
  • Page 17: Crystal Oscillator

    Si4455 3.5. Crystal Oscillator The Si4455 includes an integrated crystal oscillator with a fast start-up time of less than 250 µs. The design is differential with the required crystal load capacitance integrated on-chip to minimize the number of external components. By default, all that is required off-chip is the crystal. The default crystal is 30 MHz, but the circuit is designed to handle any XTAL from 25 to 32 MHz, set in the EZConfig setup.
  • Page 18: Configuration Options And User Interface

    The program then gives the option to load a sample project with the selected configuration onto the evaluation board or launch IDE with the new configuration array preloaded into the user program. For more information on EZConfig usage, refer to application note, “AN692: Si4355/Si4455 Programming Guide”.
  • Page 19: Configuration Options

    Gaussian filter, limiting its spectral width. As a result, the out-of-band components of the signal are reduced. The Si4455 also has an option for Manchester coding. This method provides a state transition at each bit and so allows for more reliable clock recovery. Manchester code is available only when using the packet handler option and, if selected, will be applied to the entire packet (the preamble pattern is set to continuous “1”...
  • Page 20 4.2.4. Data Rate The Si4455 can be set to communicate at between 1 to 500 kbps in (G)FSK mode and between 0.5 to 120 kbps in OOK mode. Higher data rates allow for faster data transfer while lower data rates result in improved sensitivity and range performance.
  • Page 21: Configuration Commands

    WRITE_TX_FIFO (0x66). The EZCONFIG_SETUP passes the configuration array to the device and the EZCONFIG_CHECK insures that all of the configuration data was written correctly. For more information on the setup commands, refer to “AN692: Si4355/Si4455 Programming Guide” and the EZRadio API Documentation zip file available from www.silabs.com.
  • Page 22: Controller Interface

    5.1. Serial Peripheral Interface The Si4455 communicates with the host MCU over a standard 4-wire serial peripheral interface (SPI): SCLK, SDI, SDO, and nSEL. The SPI interface is designed to operate at a maximum of 10 MHz. The SPI timing parameters are listed in Table 11.
  • Page 23 Si4455 The Si4455 contains an internal MCU which controls all the internal functions of the radio. For SPI read commands, a typical communication flow of checking clear-to-send (CTS) is used to make sure the internal MCU has executed the command and prepared the data to be output over the SDO pin. Figure 9 demonstrates the general flow of an SPI read command.
  • Page 24: Operating Modes And Timing

    5.2. Operating Modes and Timing The primary states of the Si4455 are shown in Figure 11. The shutdown state completely shuts down the radio, minimizing current consumption and is controlled using the SDN (pin 2). All other states are controlled using the API commands START_RX, START_TX and CHANGE_STATE.
  • Page 25 Si4455 Table 12. Operating State Response Time and Current Consumption State / Mode Response Time to Current in State / Mode Shutdown 30 ms 30 ms 30 nA Standby 500 μs 460 μs 50 nA SPI Active 500 μs 330 μs 1.35 mA...
  • Page 26 Si4455 TX = 19 mA Tune = 100us@6.9 mA Ready = 300 us@1.8 mA Reg Inrush = 5 us@2 mA Standby = 50 nA Standby = 50 nA Figure 13. Start-Up Timing and Current Consumption using Standby State 5.2.1. Shutdown State The shutdown state is the lowest current consumption state of the device and is entered by driving SDN (Pin 2) high.
  • Page 27 Si4455 5.2.5. Power on Reset A Power On Reset (POR) sequence is used to boot the device up from a fully off or shutdown state. To execute this process, VDD must ramp within 1 ms and must remain applied to the device for at least 10 ms. If VDD is removed, then it must stay below 0.15 V for at least 10 ms before being applied again.
  • Page 28 Si4455 5.2.6. TX State The TX state is used whenever the device is required to transmit data. It is entered using either the START_TX or CHANGE_STATE command. With the START_TX command, the next state can be defined to insure optimal timing.
  • Page 29: Interrupts

    Si4455 5.3. Interrupts The Si4455 is capable of generating an interrupt signal when certain events occur. The chip notifies the microcontroller that an interrupt event has occurred by setting the nIRQ output pin LOW = 0. This interrupt signal will be generated when any one (or more) of the interrupt events occur. The nIRQ pin will remain low until the microcontroller reads the Interrupt Status Registers.
  • Page 30: Gpio

    Si4455 5.4. GPIO Four General Purpose IO (GPIO) pins are available for use in the application. The GPIOs are configured using the GPIO_PIN_CFG command. GPIO pins 0 and 1 should be used for active signals such as data or clock. GPIO pins 2 and 3 have more susceptibility to generating spurious components in the synthesizer than pins 0 and 1.
  • Page 31: Data Handling And Packet Handler

    GUI. The maximum payload length supported in packet handler mode is 255 bytes. 6.2. Packet Handler The Si4455 includes integrated packet handler features such as preamble and sync word detection as well as CRC calculation. This allows the chip to qualify and synchronize with legitimate transmissions independent of the microcontroller.
  • Page 32: Pin Descriptions

    Si4455 7. Pin Descriptions nSEL Si4455 SCLK nIRQ GPIO1 Pin Name Description Ground Shutdown (0 – V V) – SDN=1, part will be in shutdown mode and contents of all registers are lost. SDN=0, all other modes Differential RF receiver input pin...
  • Page 33 Si4455 Pin Name Description The exposed metal paddle on the bottom of the package supplies the RF and cir- cuit ground(s) for the entire chip. It is very important that a good solder connection PKG PADDLE_GND is made between this exposed metal paddle and the ground plane of the underly- ing PCB.
  • Page 34: Ordering Information

    Si4455 8. Ordering Information Description Package Type Operating Part Number Temperature Si4455-B1A-FM EZRadio Transceiver 3x3 QFN-20 –40 to 85 °C Pb-free *Note: Add an “R” at the end of the device part number to denote tape and reel option. Rev 1.1...
  • Page 35: Package Outline

    Si4455 9. Package Outline Figure 18. 20-pin QFN Package Rev 1.1...
  • Page 36 Si4455 Table 15. Package Diagram Dimensions Dimension 0.80 0.85 0.90 0.00 0.02 0.05 0.20 REF 0.18 0.25 0.30 0.25 0.30 0.35 3.00 BSC. 1.55 1.70 1.85 0.50 BSC. 3.00 BSC. 1.55 1.70 1.85 2.40 BSC. 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.15 0.10 0.10...
  • Page 37: Pcb Land Pattern

    Si4455 10. PCB Land Pattern Figure 19. 20-pin QFN PCB Land Pattern Table 16. PCB Land Pattern Dimensions Dimension 3.00 3.00 0.50 REF 0.25 0.35 1.65 1.75 0.85 0.95 1.65 1.75 0.37 0.47 2.40 REF 0.25 0.35 Note: All dimensions shown are in millimeters (mm) unless otherwise noted.
  • Page 38: Top Marking

    Si4455 11. Top Marking 11.1. Si4455 Top Marking Figure 20. Si4455 Top Marking 11.2. Top Marking Explanation Laser Mark Method: Part Number 455A = Si4455-B1A Line 1 Marking: Firmware Revision A = B1A TTTT = Trace Code Internal tracking number Line 2 Marking: Circle = 0.5 mm Diameter...
  • Page 39: Document Change List

    Si4455 Updated "7. Pin Descriptions" on page 32.  OCUMENT HANGE Updated XIN pin description and added ground  paddle description. Revision 1.0 to Revision 1.1 Updated Figure 19 on page 37 to show top view of  Removed API section and updated references to ...
  • Page 40: Contact Information

    The products must not be used within any Life Support System without the specific written consent of Silicon Laboratories. A "Life Support System" is any product or system intended to support or sustain life and/or health, which, if it fails, can be reasonably expected to result in significant personal injury or death.

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