Hello TI Engineering staff,
I'm working on a project with a group that creates a system of wireless headphones which can stream music between each other. The CC8530 IC seems to meet a lot of the basic requirements for the functioning of this system, but I've been looking through the datasheets and I am confused about a couple of things.
First, is it possible to use a single CC8530 chip that can be reprogrammed at the push of a button from the user to serve as the Master (Tx User who broadcasts whatever music they are listening to) or as the Slave (Rx which tries to acquire signals from a Tx user)?
Basically, can we switch from Receiving to Transmitting solely through a user interface?
Secondly, as far as I know the CC8530 does not contain an antenna, only the RF_P, and RF_N pin inputs from an external antenna. Is this correct? Also would the chip work with a half-wave dipole antenna connected?