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Thom van der Klis 21-3-2023 V1.0 Ridder SmartDrive -- nRF52840 operational description 1. Introduction Ridder SmartDrive is equipped with the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 Bluetooth 2.4 GHz transceiver, which is programmed for Bluetooth Low Energy configuration. The Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 is built around the 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 CPU featuring a 2.4 GHz Transceiver, 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, Long Range, Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh. 2. Technical description Bluetooth 5, IEEE 802.15.4-2006, 2.4 GHz transceiver:
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-95 dBm sensitivity in 1 Mbps Bluetooth low energy mode
-103 dBm sensitivity in 125 kbps Bluetooth low energy mode (long range)
-20 to +8 dBm TX power, configurable in 4 dB steps Supported data rates:
o Bluetooth5: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 kbps, and 125 kbps Temperature and voltage ranges:
Figure 1: Temperature and voltage ranges 2.1. Frequencies, channels 2.1.1. Programmed channel map The programmed channel map in the nRF52840 is set to Default 2400 2500 MHz in order to choose the standard BLE-channels. 1 Doc title Author Ridder SmartDrive -- nRF52840 operational description Thom van der Klis Version Date Print date V1.0 21-3-2023 5-1-2022 2.1.2. Used channels Figure 2: default channel map The used channels in the Ridder SmartDrive application are located in the 2.4GHz ISM band and are limited to the Bluetooth Low Energy channels 0 to 39, frequencies between 2402 MHz and 2480 MHz:
Figure 3: BLE channels used by the SmartDrive application 2.2. Supported bandwidths and data rate The configured data rate and mode is 1 Mbit/s BLE 2 Doc title Author Ridder SmartDrive -- nRF52840 operational description Thom van der Klis Version Date Print date V1.0 21-3-2023 5-1-2022 Resulting frequency deviation is 250 kHz:
Figure 4: configured BLE mode 2.3. Power levels Figure 5: resulting frequency deviation Power level of the nRF52840 SoC in the SmartDrive application is set to 0 dBm, while a 3dB attenuator on the PCBA further reduces the transmit power to -3dBm. 3 Doc title Author Ridder SmartDrive -- nRF52840 operational description Thom van der Klis Version Date Print date V1.0 21-3-2023 5-1-2022 Figure 6: programmed power level in the application is 0dBm 2.4. Antenna information The antenna is a quarter wavelength monopole, and was taken over from nrf52840-development-kit---
hardware-files-3_0_0 that can be found on the Nordic Semiconductor website. The antenna was tuned to the frequency 2440 MHz during the design work. The transmission line contains a Pi-configuration low pass filter around L502 and a 3dB attenuator for matching purposes with R512, R513, R514. 2.4.1. Schematic implementation 4 Doc title Author Ridder SmartDrive -- nRF52840 operational description Thom van der Klis Version Date Print date V1.0 21-3-2023 5-1-2022 2.4.2. Physical implementation 5 Doc title Author Ridder SmartDrive -- nRF52840 operational description Thom van der Klis Version Date Print date V1.0 21-3-2023 5-1-2022