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CC1125 ETSI Cat 1 434MHz

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Hello,

I obtained a CC1125 ETSI EN 300 220 Cat 1 868 MHz Development kit and modified it to 434 MHz. I am obtaining some very impressive results which are quite similar to those announced in the datasheet.

Conditions: fxosc TCXO 40 Mhz, 1.2 kbps 2-FSK, 4-kHz Dev and 10 kHz Channel filter.

Sensitivity= -122 dBm Cat 1 

Adjacent channel selectivity 12.5 kHz= 60 dB Cat 1

Saturation adjacent channel 12.5 kHz= 93 dB Cat 1

Blocking 2 MHz= 83 dB  -3 dB from Cat1, -2 dB from datasheet

Blocking 10 MHz= 88 dB Cat 1

Spurious response -124 kHz= 60 dB Cat 1

As you can see every requirement for ETSI EN 300 220 Cat 1 is met except for the Blocking at 2 MHz. I will use a narrow SAW filter as advised to pass the Cat 1 Blocking requirement but my question is:

Do you have some register tweak or any other tip to improve the Blocking without the use of a narrow-band SAW filter? My final application is for 459 MHz and it is quite complicated to find an adequate standard SAW filter at those frequencies for the Cat 1 purpose.

I checked the Application Note AN122 and I used the FS_CHP to 3F without much succes. How can I manage with the Dev kit to configure FS_CHP to 3F after calibrating the PLL?

Thanks a lot.

  • Increasing FS_CHP improves the close-in phase noise, and does not improve blocking.

    The values in the CC1125 data sheet are measured with the 1.2 kbps, +/-4 kHz deviation register settings you get from Studio. Note that FB2PLL is enabled so the effective RX filter BW is 10 kHz +/-10 kHz/4 = 15 kHz. The blocking limit is thus 84.3 dB. The data sheet gives the blocking at 2 MHz offset as typically 85 dB. The blocking performance has a tolerance of a few dB's so even with 84.3 dB ETSI limit a SAW filter will be needed to meet Cat 1 requirements.