CC2420 Chipcon AS, CC2420 Datasheet - Page 23

• Manufacturer Part Number: CC2420
• Description: 2.4 GHz RF Transceiver for IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee
• Manufacturer: Chipcon AS

4-wire Serial Configuration and Data Interface
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SPI-compatible interface (pins SI, SO,
SCLK and CSn) where
This interface is also used to read and
write buffered data (see page 34). All
address and data transfer on the SPI
interface is done most significant bit first.
Register access
There are 33 16-bit configuration and
status registers, 15 command strobe
registers, and two 8-bit registers to access
the separate transmit and receive FIFOs.
Each of the 50 registers is addressed by a
6-bit address. The RAM/Register bit (bit 7)
must be cleared for register access. The
Read/Write bit (bit 6) selects a read or a
write operation and makes up the 8-bit
address field together with the 6-bit
address.
In each register read or write cycle, 24 bits
are sent on the SI-line. The CSn pin (Chip
Select, active low) must be kept low during
this transfer.The bit to be sent first is the
RAM/Register bit (set to 0 for register
access), followed by the R/W bit (0 for
write, 1 for read). The following 6 bits are
the address-bits (A5:0). A5 is the most
significant bit of the address and is sent
first. The 16 data-bits are then transferred
(D15:0), also MSB first. See Figure 8 for
an illustration.
Chipcon AS SmartRF® CC2420 Preliminary Datasheet (rev 1.0), 2003-11-17
is configured via a simple 4-wire
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is the slave.
SmartRF
The configuration registers can also be
read by the microcontroller via the same
configuration interface. The R/W bit must
be set high to initiate the data read-back.
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addressed register on the 16 clock cycles
following the register address. The SO pin
is used as the data output and must be
configured
microcontroller.
The timing for the programming is also
shown in Figure 8 with reference to Table
4. The clocking of the data on SI into the
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SCLK. When the last bit, D0, of the 16
data-bits has been written, the data word
is loaded in the internal configuration
register.
Multiple registers may be written without
releasing CSn, as described in the Multiple
SPI access section on page 27.
The register data will be retained during a
programmed power-down mode, but not
when the power-supply is turned off (e.g.
by disabling the voltage regulator using
the VREG_EN pin). The registers can be
programmed in any order.
is done on the positive edge of
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