SWRS046I November 2006 – September 2018 CC1020
PRODUCTION DATA.
Modulation bandwidth and spurious emission are normally measured with the PA continuously on and a repeated test sequence.
In cases where the modulation bandwidth and spurious emission are measured with the CC1020 device switching from power down mode to TX mode, a PA ramping sequence could be used to minimize modulation bandwidth and spurious emission.
PA ramping should then be used both when switching the PA on and off. A linear PA ramping sequence can be used where register PA_POWER is changed from 00h to 0Fh and then from 50h to the register setting that gives the desired output power (for example, F0h for +10 dBm output power at 433 MHz operation). The longer the time per PA ramping step the better, but setting the total PA ramping time equal to 2 bit periods is a good compromise between performance and PA ramping time.