Code example or demo
CC2500
Low Cost, Low-Power 2.4 GHz RF Transceiver Designed for Low-Power Wireless Apps in the 2.4 GHz ISM B
Data sheet
CC2500
- RF Performance
- High sensitivity (-104 dBm at 2.4 kBaud, 1% packet error rate)
- Low current consumption (13.3 mA in RX, 250 kBaud, input well above sensitivity limit)
- Programmable output power up to +1 dBm
- Excellent receiver selectivity and blocking performance
- Programmable data rate from 1.2 to 500 kBaud
- Frequency range: 2400 - 2483.5 MHz
- Analog Features
- OOK, 2-FSK, GFSK, and MSK supported
- Suitable for frequency hopping and multichannel systems due to a fast settling frequency synthesizer with 90 us settling time
- Automatic Frequency Compensation (AFC) can be used to align the frequency synthesizer to the received centre frequency
- Integrated analog temperature sensor
- Digital Features
- Flexible support for packet oriented systems: On-chip support for sync word detection, address check, flexible packet length, and automatic CRC handling
- Efficient SPI interface: All registers can be programmed with one "burst" transfer
- Digital RSSI output
- Programmable channel filter bandwidth
- Programmable Carrier Sense (CS) indicator
- Programmable Preamble Quality Indicator (PQI) for improved protection against false sync word detection in random noise
- Support for automatic Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) before transmitting (for listen-before-talk systems)
- Support for per-package Link Quality Indication (LQI)
- Optional automatic whitening and dewhitening of data
- Low-Power Features
- 400 nA SLEEP mode current consumption
- Fast startup time: 240 us from SLEEP to RX or TX mode (measured on EM design)
- Wake-on-radio functionality for automatic low-power RX polling
- Separate 64-byte RX and TX data FIFOs (enables burst mode data transmission)
- General
- Few external components: Complete onchip frequency synthesizer, no external filters or RF switch needed
- Green package: RoHS compliant and no antimony or bromine
- Small size (QLP 4x4 mm package, 20 pins)
- Suited for systems compliant with EN 300 328 and EN 300 440 class 2 (Europe), FCC CFR47 Part 15 (US), and ARIB STDT66 (Japan)
- Support for asynchronous and synchronous serial receive/transmit mode for backwards compatibility with existing radio communication protocols
- Applications
- 2400-2483.5 MHz ISM/SRD band systems
- Consumer Electronics
- Wireless game controllers
- Wireless audio
- Wireless keyboard and mouse
- RF enabled remote controls
The CC2500 is a low-cost 2.4 GHz transceiver designed for very low-power wireless applications. The circuit is intended for the 2400-2483.5 MHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) and SRD (Short Range Device) frequency band.
The RF transceiver is integrated with a highly configurable baseband modem. The modem supports various modulation formats and has a configurable data rate up to 500 kBaud.
CC2500 provides extensive hardware support for packet handling, data buffering, burst transmissions, clear channel assessment, link quality indication and wake-on-radio.
The main operating parameters and the 64-byte transmit/receive FIFOs of CC2500 can be controlled via an SPI interface. In a typical system, the CC2500 will be used together with a microcontroller and a few additional passive components.
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Evaluation board
SMARTRFTRXEBK — SmartRF Transceiver Evaluation Board
The SmartRF Transceiver Evaluation Board (TrxEB) is intended to be used together with Texas Instruments’ low-power RF transceivers for evaluation, performance testing and software development.
The following transceiver evaluation modules are supported:
- CC1101EM*
- CC11xLEM*
- CC112xEM*
- CC1175EM*
- CC1200EM*
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User guide: PDF
Daughter card
CC2500EMK — CC2500EMK Evaluation Module 2.4 GHz
These evaluation modules in combination with a motherboard from a CC2500 development kit is designed to help the user to achieve his/hers objectives as quickly as possible.
This evaluation kit includes 2 CC2500EM evaluation modules and antennas. These evaluation modules are add-on daughter (...)
Interface adapter
BOOST-CCEMADAPTER — EM Adapter BoosterPack
The purpose of the EM adapter board is to provide an-easy-to-use bridge between any of the TI MCU LaunchPads and the wide variety of TI RF evaluation modules (EM), for instance the CCxxxx Low-Power RF evaluation modules. No specific software is provided, so it is up to the user to write the (...)
Code example or demo
SWRC021 — CC1100 CC1101 CC1100E CC2500 Examples Libraries
Supported products & hardware
Products
Sub-1 GHz transceivers
Other wireless products
Driver or library
SIMPLICITI — SimpliciTI Compliant Protocol Stack
SimpliciTI is a simple low-power RF network protocol aimed at small RF networks. SimpliciTI was designed for easy implementation and deployment out-of-the-box on several TI RF platforms such as the MSP430 family of low-power MCUs and the CC1XXX/CC25XX/CC430 transceivers and SoCs.
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Support software
PACKET-SNIFFER — SmartRF™ Packet Sniffer 2.18.1
The SmartRF Packet Sniffer is a PC software application that can display and store radio packets captured by a listening RF device. The capture device is connected to the PC via USB. Various RF protocols are supported. The Packet Sniffer filters and decodes packets and displays them in a convenient (...)
Supported products & hardware
Products
Low-power 2.4-GHz products
Sub-1 GHz wireless MCUs
Sub-1 GHz transceivers
Other wireless products
Automotive wireless connectivity products
Hardware development
Evaluation board
Development kit
Software
Software programming tool
Calculation tool
Driver or library
Support software
SLYC047 — MSP430 MCU eZ430-RF2500 Development Tool
Supported products & hardware
Products
MSP430 microcontrollers
Other wireless products
Support software
SWRC046 — SmartRF(TM) Studio 6.13.1
Supported products & hardware
Products
Low-power 2.4-GHz products
Sub-1 GHz wireless MCUs
Sub-1 GHz transceivers
Other wireless products
Software
Calculation tool
Calculation tool
SMARTRF-STUDIO-7 — SmartRF Studio 7 application software
SmartRF™ Studio is a Windows application that helps designers of RF systems to easily evaluate the radio at an early stage in the design process for all TI CC1xxx and CC2xxx low-power RF devices. It simplifies generation of the configuration register values and commands, as well as practical (...)
Supported products & hardware
Products
MSP430 microcontrollers
Low-power 2.4-GHz products
Sub-1 GHz wireless MCUs
Sub-1 GHz transceivers
Other wireless products
Automotive wireless connectivity products
Hardware development
Development kit
Evaluation board
Interface adapter
Daughter card
Design tool
SIMPLELINK-2-4GHZ-DESIGN-REVIEWS — Hardware design reviews for SimpleLink™ CC2xxx devices
The SimpleLink hardware design review process provides a way to get in touch, one-on-one, with a subject matter expert that can help review your design and provide valuable feedback. A simple three-step process for requesting a review as well as links to relevant technical documentation and (...)
Reference designs
CC-ANTENNA-DK-RD — Sub-1 GHz and 2.4 GHz Antenna Reference Designs
The Antenna Board reference design contains various low-cost antenna solutions for both sub-1 GHz and 2.4 GHz short range wireless systems.
Schematic: PDF
Reference designs
TIDM-LPBP-EMADAPTER — Evaluation Module (EM) Adaptor
This BoosterPack kit contains one "EM Adapter BoosterPack". The purpose of the EM adapter board is to provide an-easy-to-use bridge between any of the TI MCU LaunchPads and the vide variety of TI RF evaluation modules (EM), for instance the CCxxxx Low-Power RF evaluation modules. No specific (...)
Schematic: PDF
Reference designs
TIDM-WIRELESS-SENSORNODE — Battery-Operated Wireless Sensor Monitoring Reference Design
This design, featuring the ultra-low-power MSP430 MCU paired with a sub-GHz RF transceiver, enables a battery-operated wireless sensor monitoring solution. This design demonstrates both access point and wireless nodes, which can share sensor data wirelessly using a network protocol called (...)
Schematic: PDF
| Package | Pins | CAD symbols, footprints & 3D models |
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| VQFN (RGP) | 20 | Ultra Librarian |
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