
Preliminary
11-121
RF2968
Rev A13 010912
11
Pin
Function
Description
Interface Schematic
1VCC1
Supply voltage for the VCO doubler and LO amplifier circuits.
2VCC2
Supply voltage for the RX mixers, TX PA, and LNA bias circuits.
3TX OUT
Transmitter output. TX OUT output impedance is 50
Ω (nominal) when
the transmitter is enabled. TX OUT is a high impedance when the
transmitter is disabled. Because this pin is DC-biased, an external cou-
pling capacitor is required.
4RX IN
Receiver input. RX IN input impedance is a low impedance when the
receiver is enabled. RX IN is a high impedance when the receiver is
disabled. An internal series inductor is used to tune the input imped-
ance.
5VCC3
Supply voltage for the RX input stage (LNA).
6VCC4
Supply voltage for the TX mixers and bias circuits of the LO amplifier,
LNA, and RX mixers.
7LPO
Low frequency clock output for low power mode. In sleep mode, this pin
may provide either a 3.2kHz or 32kHz clock having a 50% duty cycle to
the baseband. In other modes, the output is disabled.
8DVDDH
Supply voltage for the RX IF VGA circuit.
9IREF
Connects an external precision resistor (1% tolerance) for generation
of a constant current reference.
10
VCC5
Supply voltage for the analog IF circuits.
11
D1
This is the output of the charge pump for clock recovery circuit. A RC
network from this pin to ground is used to establish the PLL bandwidth.
See pin 26.
12
BPKTCTL
In transmit mode, this pin is used as a strobe to enable the PA stage. In
receive mode, the baseband has the option to use this pin to signal the
detection of the sync word. The baseband drives this pin high at the
end of the sync word, at which time a second DC estimation is per-
formed by sampling the trailer bits. If baseband control is not desired to
signal the second DC estimation, then an internal timer is used to mark
the end of the sync word. The BBC bit is used to select the baseband
control option; the default setting uses the internal timer.
See pin 23.
13
BDATA1
Input data to transmitter/output data from receiver. The input data is
unfiltered data at 1MHz data rate. The pin is bidirectional, switching
between data in and data out modes during Transmit and Receive
modes respectively.
14
RECCLK
Recovered clock output.
See pin 17.
15
RECDATA
Recovered data output.
See pin 17.
16
BXTLEN
This pin is part of the chip power control circuit. It is used to enable/dis-
able “sleep” mode of chip.
TX OUT
10
Ω
V
CC
RX IN
V
CC3
VCC3
RXDATA
TX DATA
BDATA1
BXTLEN
V
CC