Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TIDA-00757, CC2650EM-5XD-RD, ,
Looking at the updated TIDA-00757 "Smart Lock Reference Design Enabling More Than Five Years of Life on Four AA Batteries", had some HW/RF and SW questions.
1. Looking at p. 3 of the Smartlock Schematic (tidrmq3.pdf), I believe the RF Frontend is 4XS. Is that true?
2. If so is the RF Frontend to get the best BLE performance the 5XD?
3. Is the best way to evaluate BLE RF performance with SmartRF06 + cc2650em-5xd-rd ? Or can we modify TIDA-00757?
4. If we want to use an SMA Antenna on cc2650em-5xd-rd or TIDA-00757, can we just modify the 0 Ohm resistors to reroute (and populate SMA connector)?
5. Does TI recommend any particular SMA Antenna?
6. Is there any plan to port the TIDA00757-Firmware (from http://www.ti.com/lit/zip/tidcce9 ) from CC2640 to CC2640R2?
Thanks in advance!
-Joe