SWRA834 May   2025 CC2340R5 , CC2340R5-Q1 , CC2744R7-Q1 , CC2745P10-Q1 , CC2745R10-Q1 , CC2745R7-Q1 , CC2755R10

 

  1.   1
  2.   Abstract
  3.   Trademarks
  4. 1 Introduction
  5. 2 Reference Designs
    1. 2.1 LP-EM-CC2340R53
    2. 2.2 LP-EM-CC2340R5
    3. 2.3 LP-EM-CC2340R5-Q1
    4. 2.4 LP-EM-CC2340R5-RGE-4x4-IS24
    5. 2.5 LP-EM-CC2745R10-Q1
  6. 3 Schematic
    1. 3.1 Schematic Overview
      1. 3.1.1 48MHz Crystal
      2. 3.1.2 32.768kHz Crystal
      3. 3.1.3 Filter
      4. 3.1.4 Decoupling Capacitors
      5. 3.1.5 Antenna Components
      6. 3.1.6 RF Shield
    2. 3.2 I/O Pins Drive Strength
    3. 3.3 Bootloader Pins
    4. 3.4 Serial Wire Debug (SWD) Pins
  7. 4 PCB Layout
    1. 4.1 Board Stack-Up
    2. 4.2 LC Filter
    3. 4.3 Decoupling Capacitors
    4. 4.4 Placement of Crystal Load Capacitors
    5. 4.5 Current Return Path
    6. 4.6 DC/DC Regulator
    7. 4.7 Antenna Matching Components
    8. 4.8 Transmission Lines
    9. 4.9 Electromagnetic Simulation
  8. 5 Antenna
  9. 6 Crystal Tuning
    1. 6.1 CC23xx and CC27xx Crystal Oscillators
    2. 6.2 Crystal Selection
    3. 6.3 Tuning the LF Crystal Oscillator
    4. 6.4 Tuning the HF Crystal Oscillator
  10. 7 Optimum Load Impedance
  11. 8 PA Table
  12. 9 Power Supply Configuration
    1. 9.1 Introduction to Power Supply
    2. 9.2 DC/DC Converter Mode
    3. 9.3 Global LDO Mode
  13. 10Board Bring-Up
    1. 10.1 Power On
    2. 10.2 RF Test: SmartRF Studio
    3. 10.3 RF Test: Conducted Measurements
      1. 10.3.1 Sensitivity
      2. 10.3.2 Output Power
    4. 10.4 Hardware Troubleshooting
      1. 10.4.1 No Link: RF Settings
      2. 10.4.2 No Link: Frequency Offset
      3. 10.4.3 Poor Link: Antenna
      4. 10.4.4 Bluetooth Low Energy: Device Does Advertising But Cannot Connect
      5. 10.4.5 Poor Sensitivity: Background Noise
      6. 10.4.6 High Sleep Power Consumption
  14. 11Summary
  15. 12References

10.4.5 Poor Sensitivity: Background Noise

A RF channel receives all radio traffic in the selected frequency span. In addition to the wanted signal, the channel also receives background noise. Part of the background noise is other RF traffic on the selected band. To receive a RF packet, the received signal has to have a given SNR. If the background noise increases, then the practical sensitivity is poorer.

For example, if the conducted sensitivity is -100dBm, the required SNR is 7dB and the background noise is -90dBm, then the practical radiated sensitivity is -83dBm.

Before doing a range test, measure the background noise. One method is to turn off all known TX sources, attach a LaunchPad or a known, good board to SmartRF Studio, select the Continuous RX tab and press play. The average of the resulting graph can be used as an input to find the practical sensitivity.