How to set CC2530 for Core current consumption measurement in Power mode 1, Power mode 2 and power mode 3

Hi Antsheeho,

It depends on what you have in your possession?

1. Is the cc2530 is a part of cc2530EM mounted on smartRF05EB?
2. What kind of SW you are using, is it Z-Stack, simpliciTI, from a scratch?

Or the question you are asking is what are the steps to tweak the SW in

order to set cc2530 to a specific power mode and then measure expected

values?

Br,

Igor

Hi Igor,

Yes, cc2530 is a part of cc2530em mounted on a smartRF05EB. I am using SmartRF studio7. I read from the TI application report  swra370 that I am able to use this sw to set the device to various modes.

Btw, how difficult is it to do from scratch? Is the any available exe files which I could run them in dos mode? I used  these exe when I was working on WLAn chipsets in the past.

Best regards,

Antseeho

Hi Antseeho,

Ok, here's the thing, It'll be kind of hard to do the measurement with smartRF

studio, since while in debug mode, cc2530 does't really enters to PM2 or 3.

You should be writing some code for the device to control the power modes.

You might find the following way a little bit problematic, however it can save you

some time:

1. DOS uhmmm, well, since you have managed to run the SmartRF studio
   I believe that you can download the latest Z-Stack (swrc126.zip) release
   and an IAR IDE v8.10 (30 days free evaluation).
2. Once you got the SW, install it. next thing you should read the 
   "Power Management For The CC2530.pdf" document (you can find this
   doc in Z-stack installation folder/Documents/CC2530/".
3. To measure the real power consumption you'll be needing to de-attach
   the cc2530EM from the SmartRF05EB and connect it directly to some
   external source of power (be sure that you have flushed appropriate FW
   for this measurement).

Well, it's just a suggestion, you might be willing to wait for an answer of TI experts,

those guys know better then me. :)

Br,

Igor

Hi Igor,

I have downloaded Z-stack and IAR kickstart version. Wondering if this is enough?

Best regards.

Antseeho

Hi Antseeho,

The kick start version is limited to 4KB of code, since Z-stack weighs much more,

you won't be able to compile any of the sample projects. So I suggest you to 

download the evaluation version, it is a full version of the IAR limited for 30 days

of use (should be enough to take you through your power consumtion experiments).

Br,

Igor

Hi Igor,

Thank you. I hope I can finish in 30 days :-)

Best regards,

Antseeho