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Figure 7-2. RadioTool GUI in TX Tab

Running the RadioTool GUI

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SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi® CC3x20, CC3x3x Radio Tool User Guide

SWRU471B – FEBRUARY 2017 – REVISED AUGUST 2020

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Summary of Contents for SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3 20 Series

Page 1: ...dioTool GUI 7 7 1 Set Up Tab and General Information 7 7 2 GUI TX Testing 8 7 3 GUI RX Testing 11 8 Current Measurement 15 9 CLI Version 16 10 Insertion Loss Calibration 21 11 Hardware Connections on Non TI EVMs 21 12 Source Code for Developers 22 12 1 RadioTool Application Sources 22 12 2 CC32xx Application Source 22 Revision History 23 Trademarks Texas Instruments BoosterPack SimpleLink and Code...

Page 2: ...see Section 11 The I O levels of these lines should be kept at VBAT level the same voltage that powers the CC31xx and CC32xx devices For reference RF numbers refer to the device datasheets 2 Features Connection CC3120 CC3130 CC3135 through the SPI CC3120 CC3130 CC3135 through the UART CC3220 CC3230 CC3235x through the UART Acquires MAC address Acquires firmware information TX Transmission testing ...

Page 3: ...ibUART dll CC32xxLib dll RadioToolApplication_Source The Radio Tool application source for development Use Visual Studio to open the file CC3x20_RadioTool sln CC32xxBoardApplication_Binary CC32xx MCU images Use these images with Uniflash to flash an MCU image onto the device See Section 6 CC32xxBoardApplication_Source CC32xx MCU image source for development Place the radiotool folder under the CC3...

Page 4: ...Mounted on Top of CC31XXEMUBOOST Board To power the platforms connect the J6 port of CC31XXEMUBOOST to the Windows PC using a micro USB cable as shown in Figure 5 2 If the drivers are properly installed as mentioned during the SDK installation the PC should recognize and list the connected device in the Device Manager shown in Figure 5 3 For details on driver and SDK installation see the SimpleLin...

Page 5: ...ect the RF connector to a WLAN tester RF equipment for measurements and the USB connector on the CC32xx LaunchPad to the PC Ensure the RF connection to the instrument is made before powering on the board so that the correct load impedance is provided during power on By default the RF path is routed to J11 Murata RF Switch If users want to use J10 uFL for RF measurements swap the position of the 0 ...

Page 6: ...ardApplication Binary folder In case Uniflash is installed on the same windows machine as RadioTool a predefined sli image can be selected and programmed to the device as shown in Figure 6 1 Figure 6 1 RadioTool Setup Page For instructions on flashing the devices see the SimpleLink Wi Fi CC3x20 CC3x3x UniFlash ImageCreator for details Flashing the Board www ti com 6 SimpleLink Wi Fi CC3x20 CC3x3x ...

Page 7: ...if the if the appropriate COM port does not appear Upon a successful connection the Details box on the left provides detailed device information on the connected device see Figure 7 1 Before proceeding ensure the board is flashed with the desired image version FW Ver or Firmware version is arranged as follows NWPversion FWversion PHYversion The CC32xx App Ver information is applies only to CC32xx ...

Page 8: ...for FCC ETSI certification purposes where high duty cycle is required This mode is used only for emission certification Carrier Wave CW In this mode the device transmits an unmodulated RF tone The frequencies can be selected in 312 5 kHz steps The power output with tone 0 is very low If higher RF power is desired use tone numbers other than 0 Some fields are enabled disabled depending on the type ...

Page 9: ...xFF 0xFF 0xFF Incremental Decremental Size 24 1400 Packet size in bytes Delay 100 to 1 000 000 Delay of transmission in milliseconds ms Amount 0 to 1 000 000 Number of packets to transmit A value of 0 indicates infinite number of packets Override CCA Enable this field for CCA Clear Channel Assessment override if the Wi Fi environment is too congested to have a reliable periodic transmission CCA th...

Page 10: ... GUI in TX Tab Running the RadioTool GUI www ti com 10 SimpleLink Wi Fi CC3x20 CC3x3x Radio Tool User Guide SWRU471B FEBRUARY 2017 REVISED AUGUST 2020 Submit Document Feedback Copyright 2020 Texas Instruments Incorporated ...

Page 11: ... may choose to gather the statistics any time before RX testing ends by clicking the Get Statistics button Table 7 3 lists fields explanations Table 7 3 Fields Explanation Field Description Valid Valid packets Addr Mismatch Packets with address mismatch FCS Error Frame Check Sequence error Mang frame Average RSSI in management frames DataCtrl frame Average RSSI in Data Control frames Figure 7 3 li...

Page 12: ...ress Figure 7 4 RadioTool GUI in RX Tab With Running in Progress Running the RadioTool GUI www ti com 12 SimpleLink Wi Fi CC3x20 CC3x3x Radio Tool User Guide SWRU471B FEBRUARY 2017 REVISED AUGUST 2020 Submit Document Feedback Copyright 2020 Texas Instruments Incorporated ...

Page 13: ... percentages Figure 7 5 RadioTool GUI in RX Tab With Statistics www ti com Running the RadioTool GUI SWRU471B FEBRUARY 2017 REVISED AUGUST 2020 Submit Document Feedback SimpleLink Wi Fi CC3x20 CC3x3x Radio Tool User Guide 13 Copyright 2020 Texas Instruments Incorporated ...

Page 14: ... Figure 7 6 RSSI Histogram Graph in Amount Figure 7 7 shows the rate histogram graph in percentages Figure 7 7 Rate Histogram Graph in Percentage Running the RadioTool GUI www ti com 14 SimpleLink Wi Fi CC3x20 CC3x3x Radio Tool User Guide SWRU471B FEBRUARY 2017 REVISED AUGUST 2020 Submit Document Feedback Copyright 2020 Texas Instruments Incorporated ...

Page 15: ... second more is Hibernate By using this tab the device s current consumption when in a low power state can be observed with an external current measuring tool Figure 8 1 Current Tab Modes www ti com Current Measurement SWRU471B FEBRUARY 2017 REVISED AUGUST 2020 Submit Document Feedback SimpleLink Wi Fi CC3x20 CC3x3x Radio Tool User Guide 15 Copyright 2020 Texas Instruments Incorporated ...

Page 16: ... applicable in the following order Chip ID ROM version Firmware version Host Driver version CC32xx App version MAC address Common for TX and RX t duration DURATION RX TX Testing DURATION in seconds for T and R options Range 1 65535 Default 1 c channel CHANNEL RX TX Testing CHANNEL for T and R options Range 2 4GHz 1 13 5GHz 36 169 Default 1 k enable_acks TX ACKs enabling For Rx mode Default disable...

Page 17: ...TX Country Code in two ASCII characters Letters will be converted to upper case Options US EU JP Default US RX Reception R rx RX testing and retrieves statistics The statistics will be shown as 1st line valid packets FCS error packets address mismatch packets 2nd line Average RSSI in management frame Average RSSI in other frames 3rd line RSSI historgram greater than 48dBm 48dBm to 55dBm 56dBm to 6...

Page 18: ...FDM max power packet size 1400bytes destination MAC address 01 23 45 67 89 AB infinite amount of packets long preamble all 0 pattern 10 seconds testing time RadioToolCLI exe X1 P7 B115200 T z1 c1 m13 w0 l1400 a 0123456789AB n0 e0 r0 t10 TX Packetized CC32xx via UART channel 1 1Mbps DSSS max power packet size 512bytes destination MAC address EE EE EE EE 0E EE 100ms delay long preamble incremental p...

Page 19: ...5 v sample output Connecting Connected RX Testing Started RX Testing Started The program will last 5 second s and report every 1 second s 54 1 0 52 0 31 31 0 21 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 174708 1227552 1052844 113 3 0 59 79 48 48 1 36 0 3 25 25 25 0 3 0 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1227567 2222249 994682 63 1 0 54 0 29 29 0 30 0 0 4 4 4 0 0 0 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0...

Page 20: ...0 0 4250381 5264337 1013956 RX Finished SUCCESS CLI Version www ti com 20 SimpleLink Wi Fi CC3x20 CC3x3x Radio Tool User Guide SWRU471B FEBRUARY 2017 REVISED AUGUST 2020 Submit Document Feedback Copyright 2020 Texas Instruments Incorporated ...

Page 21: ...d Table 11 3 The signal voltage level from the emulation board LaunchPad is 3 3 V and the VCC level is 3 3 V This VCC can also be used to power the CC31xx and CC32xx devices on the custom platform Make sure the I O voltage levels between the emulation board and the device on the EVM are the same Table 11 1 Connections for CC31XXEMUBOOST to a Custom CC31xx Platform UART Connection Signal Name CC31x...

Page 22: ...the proper IAR version to use Code Composer Studio IDE 12 2 CC32xx Application Source The CC32xx onboard application source is in the CC32xxBoardApplication_Source directory Simply copy this source into the example folder of the CC32xx SDK Use CCS or IAR to open the project workspace Source Code for Developers www ti com 22 SimpleLink Wi Fi CC3x20 CC3x3x Radio Tool User Guide SWRU471B FEBRUARY 201...

Page 23: ...Changed the document title and throughout document to include CC3130 and CC3230 devices 2 www ti com Revision History SWRU471B FEBRUARY 2017 REVISED AUGUST 2020 Submit Document Feedback SimpleLink Wi Fi CC3x20 CC3x3x Radio Tool User Guide 23 Copyright 2020 Texas Instruments Incorporated ...

Page 24: ...o change without notice TI grants you permission to use these resources only for development of an application that uses the TI products described in the resource Other reproduction and display of these resources is prohibited No license is granted to any other TI intellectual property right or to any third party intellectual property right TI disclaims responsibility for and you will fully indemn...

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