SWRS045F January 2006 – November 2018 CC1021
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The CC1021 device is recommended for narrowband applications with channel spacing of 50 kHz and higher complying with FCC CFR47 part 15 and EN 300 220.
The CC1020 device is recommended in narrowband applications with channel spacing of 12.5 or 25 kHz complying with ARIB STD T-67 and EN 300 220.
The CC1020 and CC1021 devices are fully compatible for channel spacings of 50 kHz and higher (receiver channel filter bandwidths of 38.4 kHz and higher).
Due to on-chip complex filtering, the image frequency is removed. An on-chip calibration circuit is used to get the best possible image rejection. A narrowband preselector filter is not necessary to achieve image rejection.
A unique feature in the CC1021 device is the very fine frequency resolution. This can be used for temperature compensation of the crystal if the temperature drift curve is known and a temperature sensor is included in the system. Even initial adjustment can be performed using the frequency programmability. This eliminates the need for an expensive TCXO and trimming in some applications.
In less demanding applications, a crystal with low temperature drift and low aging could be used without further compensation. A trimmer capacitor in the crystal oscillator circuit (in parallel with C5) could be used to set the initial frequency accurately.
The frequency offset between a transmitter and receiver is measured in the CC1021 device and can be read back from the AFC register. The measured frequency offset can be used to calibrate the receiver frequency using the transmitter as the reference.
The CC1021 device also has the possibility to use Gaussian shaped FSK (GFSK). This spectrum-shaping feature improves adjacent channel power (ACP) and occupied bandwidth. In ‘true’ FSK systems with abrupt frequency shifting, the spectrum is inherently broad. By making the frequency shift ‘softer’, the spectrum can be made significantly narrower. Thus, higher data rates can be transmitted in the same bandwidth using GFSK.