5. Typical Key Fob Application for Full-duplex PEG
Figure 5-1. Typical Key Fob Application for Full-duplex PEG, 433.92 MHz
C4
CDEM
RSSI
CS
NC
NC
C6
C5
TEST3
NC
RF_IN
NC
SCK
SDI_TMDI
SDO_TMDO
CLK
C7
Microcontroller
433_N868
NC
ATA5823/ATA5824
AVCC
R1
Loop antenna 2
R_PWR
PWR_H
RF_OUT
IRQ
L2
POUT
VCC
VSINT
VSS
C8
C9
20% overlap
NC
NC
NC
XTAL2
C1
Loop antenna 1
13.25311 MHz
C2
C10
C3
+ Lithium cell
Figure 5-1 shows a typical 433.92 MHz PEG key fob application. The external components are
10 capacitors, 1 resistor, 1 inductor and a crystal. C1 to C3 are 68 nF voltage supply blocking
capacitors. C7 is a 10 nF supply blocking capacitor. C4 is a 15 nF fixed capacitor used for the
internal quasi-peak detector and for the high-pass frequency of the data filter. C5, C6, C8 and C9
are RF matching capacitors in the range of 1 pF to 33 pF. L2 is a feed inductor of about 120 nH.
C
10 is a 10 nF capacitor which is necessary to prevent that signals couple into the pin R_PWR,
causing amplitude modulation of the output power and a spurious rise of the transmitted signal.
R1 and C10 should be placed close to the R_PWR pin. A load capacitor of 9 pF for the crystal is
integrated. R1 is typically 22 kΩ and SETPWR is programmed to get an output power of –7 dBm
in full-duplex mode and 5 dBm in half-duplex mode. The quality factor of the loop antenna 1 is
only reduced by the quality factor of L2, the tolerances of C9 and C8 are thus important. The qual-
ity factor of the loop antenna 2 is reduced to half due to the loading with the input impedance of
RF_IN. With well designed loop antennas and the correct degree of overlapping, the isolation
between RF_OUT and RF_IN is about 28 dB and the coupled output power from RF_OUT to
RF_IN is about –35 dBm. The decoupling of two loop antennas situated close to each other is
due to the effect that the magnetic flux from the part of loop antenna 1 that does not overlap and
that of the overlapping part has an opposite direction. Depending on the relative position
between the two antennas, a decoupling of 28 dB is achievable. Due to additional capacitive
coupling between the loops the position of the components C5, C6 and C8, C9 are also important.
The receive Sensitivity in full-duplex mode is reduced from –106 dBm without coupled
RF-Power at RF_IN to –96 dBm with –35 dBm coupled RF power at RF_IN.
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