MC13202 Technical Data, Rev. 1.4

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Freescale Semiconductor

4.2

Receive Path Description

In the receive signal path, the RF input is converted to low IF In-phase and Quadrature (I & Q) signals

through two down-conversion stages. A Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) can be performed based upon

the baseband energy integrated over a specific time interval. The digital backend performs Differential

Chip Detection (DCD), the correlator “de-spreads” the Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) Offset

QPSK (O-QPSK) signal, determines the symbols and packets, and detects the data.

The preamble, SFD, and FLI are parsed and used to detect the payload data and FCS which are stored in

RAM. A two-byte FCS is calculated on the received data and compared to the FCS value appended to the

transmitted data, which generates a Cyclical Redundancy Check (CRC) result. Link Quality is measured

over a 64 µs period after the packet preamble and stored in RAM.

If the MC13202 is in packet mode, the data is processed as an entire packet. The MCU is notified that an

entire packet has been received via an interrupt.

If the MC13202 is in streaming mode, the MCU is notified by an interrupt on a word-by-word basis.

Figure 4 shows CCA reported power level versus input power. Note that CCA reported power saturates at

about -57 dBm input power which is well above 802.15.4 Standard requirements. Figure 5 shows energy

detection/LQI reported level versus input power.

NOTE

For both graphs, the required 802.15.4 Standard accuracy and range limits

are shown. A 3.5 dBm offset has been programmed into the CCA reporting

level to center the level over temperature in the graphs.

Figure 4. Reported Power Level versus Input Power in CCA Mode

-100

-90

-80

-70

-60

-50

-90

-80

-70

-60

-50

Input Pow er (dBm)

802.15.4 A c curac y

and range Requirements