CC1310 and its support. When to expect?

Igor,

Thank you for your interest in our new platform device. Samples of CC13xx will become available in Q2-2015 and production in Q3-2015 as per presentation shown at Embedded World yesterday.

I cannot answer all of the questions, but I will answer the ones I allowed to.

• When is it going to be on market?
  • RTM Q3-2015
• How much will it cost? 
  • We are not allowed to discuss pricing on E2E, please contact you local Sales channels
• Is the SimplicyTI port available for this chip?
  • Not yet, we are working this.
• For which tools?
  • IAR, CCS and GCC will be supported.
  • Yes, we will enable a free version of the CCS? for an upcoming LaunchPad in Q3-2015.
• Are there Application Notes?
  • We are working on all sorts of applications notes, what specifically are you interested in?
• Hardware and firmware wise.
  • We have reference designs ready and software examples are being worked on
• Is there evaluation kit and how much will it cost
  • The kit will look exactly like the kits for CC26xx do today, it is based on the same platform.
  • We will release LaunchPads in Q3 also.

Please contact your local sales channels for more information 

Regards,
Thomas

Thomas,

It is hard not to be interested in such product :-)

• We are not allowed to discuss pricing on E2E, please contact you local Sales channels
  • Well, simple answer like whether it is going in CC430 price range or some percents higher/lower would be enough.

• Not yet, we are working this.
  • That would be the key feature. RF network stack support - one of the most important things.
• CCS and GCC will be supported.... Yes, we will enable a free version of the CCS for an upcoming LaunchPad in Q3-2015.
  • Great.
• applications notes, what specifically are you interested in?
  • Basic schematics with CC1190 or other extenders. May be layout if it has significant difference from CC1120+CC1190 design in RF part. If not - it is not necessary.  Last year I designed a prototype module based on this pair with using TI appnotes and help from TER (discussed here ), made some real environment measurements and was going to make a next step by adding STM32 uP to this sweet couple :-). However, now I'm thinking about this new opportunity. It looks very promising and getting some help and working samples when they will be available would be great. I'm expecting a new turn in our project in Q3/Q4 of this year and would like to be well prepared for it.
  • Plus would be great to have firmware update for CC1120DK to support a module based on CC1310+CC1190 and simple firmware for this pair to perform PER test. It might be as simple as transferring instructions to the RF core through CC1310 SPI. I like this tool - it is not too expensive and it allows making quick basic testing with comparable results.
• We have reference designs ready
  
  • It is not on website yet. Is there possible to get it?
• The kit will look exactly like the kits for CC26xx do today, it is based on the same platform.
  • Mmmm... Could you make update for the CC12xx kit as well? Besides, CC12xx originally used for sub 1GHz devices. Adding support for CC1310 would be so logical.... ;-) Especially for those, who already have this kit. :-)

    Regards,

          Igor

Looked on SmartRF06 Eval board and figured out, that for this chip does not make sense to adapt firmware for TRxEB. It will be easy to buy this set of boards.

And got two more questions for now:

1. Which RF core used for this chip?
2. Antennas diversity in this chip is it only to divide TX and RX paths or it could be used some other way? Looks like for using with CC1190 the only way for antennas diversity using is one antenna for TX and another one for RX.

From various leaks, it seems that TI is about to release the CC1310. After the disqualification of the ZigBee (CC25xx and CC26xx, big disappointment with the Z-Stack support only for IAR) I'm looking for a platform for the sensor network. I need it to be fully supported by CCS and TI-RTOS, to be another building block of communication devices (Tiva-Ethernet, CC3200-WiFI,...). Due to its longer communication range (Sub1GHz) I do not need a mesh configuration as one of the criteria any more. Looking into communication stack, I like the SimpliciTI very much and believe it would be the perfect counterpart to the CC1310 chip. As the TI-RTOS for SimpleLink already contains the cc13xxware, is there any way to speed-up/help to implement the SimpliciTI on CC1310? Is there available any how-to guide for the SimpliciTI implementation? Anybody interested to cooperate on this task?

Thank you,

Dalibor