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4. Using the Si4355/Si4455 Radios
Si4355 and Si4455 are easy-to-use radio chips that combine plug-and-play simplicity with the flexibility needed to
handle a wide variety of applications. This chapter describes how to operate the Si4355/Si4455 radios.
4.1. Radio Hardware Interface
The Si4355/Si4455 radios have several pins to interface to a host MCU. Four pins, SDI, SDO, SCLK, NSEL, are
used to control the radio over the SPI bus. The user has access to an Application Programming Interface (API) via
the SPI bus, which is described in section “4.2. Application Programming Interface”. The Shutdown (SDN) pin is
used to completely disable the radio (when the pin is pulled high) and put the device into the lowest power
consumption state. After the SDN pin is pulled low, the radio wakes up and performs a Power On Reset. It takes
about 1 ms until the chip is ready to receive commands on the SPI bus (GPIO1 pin goes high when the radio is
ready for receiving SPI commands). When SDN is high and the radio is in shutdown state, the GPIOs are set to
drive an output low level. The radio has an interrupt output pin, NIRQ, which can be used to promptly notify the
host MCU of various events. The NIRQ pin is active low, and goes back to high if the pending interrupt flag was
cleared by reading the appropriate Interrupt Pending registers.
Figure 7. Connections between the Radio Chip and the Host Microcontroller
Table 3. Serial Peripheral Interface Signals
Radio Pin Signal
Description
SCLK
Serial Clock Output From Master
SDI
Master Output, Slave Input
SDO
Master Input, Slave Output
NSEL
Slave Select, Active Low
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