Texas Instruments CC2520, User Manual

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1 Introduction
Thank you for purchasing a CC2520 Development Kit.
The CC2520 is Texas Instrument’s second generation ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 RF transceiver
for the 2.4 GHz unlicensed ISM band. This chip enables industrial grade applications by
offering state-of-the-art noise immunity, excellent link budget, operation up to 125 degrees
and low voltage operation.
In addition, the CC2520 provides extensive hardware support for packet handling, data
buffering, burst transmissions, data encryption, data authentication, clear channel
assessment, link quality indication and packet timing information. These features reduce the
load on the host controller.
The CC2520 Development Kit includes all the necessary hardware in order to properly
evaluate, demonstrate, prototype and develop software targeting not only 802.15.4 or ZigBee
compliant applications, but also proprietary applications requiring a DSSS radio.
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updates to documentation, new product releases and more. Sign up on the Texas
Instruments Low Power Wireless web site www.ti.com/lpw.
2 About this manual
This manual contains reference information about the hardware components of the CC2520
Development Kit.
Chapter 4 will briefly describe the contents of the development kit and chapter 5 will give a
quick introduction to how to get started with the kit. In particular, it describes how to install
SmartRF Studio to get the required drivers for the evaluation board, how the hardware can be
used and mentions the software that is available for the development kit. Chapter 6 explains
some simple methods for performing practical RF testing with the development kit. Chapter 7,
8 and 9 describe in detail the hardware that can be found in the kit. A troubleshooting guide
can be found in chapter 10. Appendix A and B contain the schematics for the SmartRF05EB
and CCMSP-EM430F2618 respectively.
The CC2520DK Quick Start Guide (www.ti.com/lit/swru139) has a short tutorial on how to get
started with the kit. The CC2520 Software User’s Guide (www.ti.com/lit/swru137) has details
about the software examples and information about other software options for the CC2520.
The PC tools SmartRF
®
Studio and SmartRF
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Flash Programmer have their own user
manuals.
Please visit the kit web page on www.ti.com/cc2520dk for additional information.
See chapter 11 for a list of relevant documents and links.