CY4636 WirelessUSB™ LP Keyboard Mouse Reference Design Kit User Guide, Doc. # 001-70355 Rev. *A
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Hardware
4.2
Mouse
The CY4636 WirelessUSB™ LP Keyboard-Mouse Reference Design Kit uses a low cost program-
mable radio-on-chip-LP for the RDK mouse. The architecture is designed to be modular for extend-
ibility and maintainability. It can easily be ported from one hardware platform to another assuming
the use of an equivalent microprocessor. Porting to another microprocessor family requires more
work to account for hardware specific changes.
Design efforts have been made to reduce the 'ON' time of the microprocessor and radio to conserve
battery life. This includes protocol optimizations along with using sleep features of the radio, mouse
optics and the microprocessor.
The mouse design uses the SS12 schottky diode (D1) and CDH53100LC inductor (L3) for its boost
circuitry. With these high efficiency components, preliminary characterization data shows a range of
approximately 74 to 87% efficiency for the 1.8-2.7 V VBAT voltage range at different temperatures
(–10 °C to 80 °C). The mouse is a higher power consumption device compared to the keyboard.
Extending the battery life is one of the crucial design considerations in the mouse design. The trade
off for a higher efficiency boost circuitry is the component costs and the board size (these compo-
nents are slightly bigger in size compared to those used in the keyboard design).
Figure 4-10. Mouse Block Diagram
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