CC2530 - Does it have a location engine? Plus some other questions

Hi.

The CC2530 does not have a location engine.
The difference between CC2530 and CC2531 is the inclusion of USB in CC2531. Otherwise the devices are the same.

Not sure about the pin out, but would believe so.

Hopefully someone else can answer the CC430 question.

Kjetil

Do all of the CC EMK's have identical pin-outs on the two 'mini' connectors?

To see the full range of connections see the schematic for the Smart RF04 board. The individual boards use a subset of these connections. 

The table below is for a CC1110EM, the pins in bold seem to be common to the 4 EM types I have used with the following exceptions: The SOCs (e.g. CC1110, CC2430, etc)  with the internal C8051 rely on DC/DD for programming and debug. The EMs without the C8051(CC1100, CC1101, CC2400, etc) do not use DC/DD or access most of the GPIO pins. Also I have not seen an EM with a +1.8Vdc connection. Schematics are available for all EMs on the Ti web site and should be checked.

I have not found the schematics yet for the CC2431 EMK for some reason.

Can someone from TI chime in - like perhaps Kjetil - and let us know where those are - I've looked everywhere - at least everywhere publicly available.

Thanks,
John

From the CC2431 short spec at http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/cc2431.pdf:

Note:

The CC2431 and the CC2430 are pin compatible, and the MCU and RF parts of the
CC2430-F128 are identical to the CC2431 except the Location Engine. This data sheet
complements the CC2430 data sheet with a description of the Location Engine. For
complete information about the CC2431, please refer to the CC2430 data sheet in
addition to this data sheet. The CC2430 data sheet can be found here:

http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/cc2430.pdf

Also the CC2430EM reference design notes that it is common to the CC2431

14. Schematics ( from http://focus.ti.com/lit/ug/swru076d/swru076d.pdf )

The CC2431EM is equal to the CC2430EM except for the CC2430/CC2431 chip. The
complete reference design for the CC2430EM can be downloaded from the CC2430 product web site.

Thanks for the reply H. Stewart.

TI - it would be nice to note this on the CC2431 page - that the CC2430 EMK schematic is equivalent to the CC2431 EMK - just the chip has been changed to the CC2431.

Thanks,
johnw

Johnw,

I think what would be great is developed a software based location engine with CC2530/1. Use the CC2531 as your gateway and master mind of the system.

We can then have a software based with CC2530 and hardware based with CC2431.

LPRF Rocks the World

Hmmm, OK.

Dear Sir,

                 we want to develop an application on CC2530 at this time we are using SmartRF05 Evaluation Board .

in that  we canprogram the CC2530 through USB controller CC2511.

but now we are going to develop our board based on CC2530 so now how can we program the device? is it possible to program the device serially?

and CC2511 have all features of CC2530 so can we replace it with CC2511.

A serial boot loader for the CC2530 is very easy - you will find samples in the upcoming 2.3.1 release or just try these.

Directory to be placed in 2.3.0 release here:

C:\svn\trunk\Projects\zstack\Utilities\BootLoad

Note the out-of-place, up-to-date linker files which must be moved to here:

C:\svn\trunk\Projects\zstack\Tools\CC2530DB

Thanks,

When will 2.3.1 be coming out ?

Jvh

Is there any documentation to help out with this code ? Even if it is not fully baked, even a high level overview would help ...

Thnx,

Jvh