Hi to everybody in this forum,
thanks in advance just for reading this
My firmware is not able to read RSSI level on ADF7021-N mounted on a specific board
The board itself can be connected to the Eval board,and in this case RSSI can be read,
It is pretty correct,i.e -60dBm RSSI vs -59 dBm on a very good spectrum analyzer.
So i can guess that my hardware works fine.
If i control the ADF7021 by means of a uC i can succesfully set the Tx frequency,i have correct readback of VDD,Product Id(0x2111),external ADC IN but RSSI remains 0x500..
To have something different i have to let ADC disabled in register 8:I this case i have RSSI=0x52F ,changing signal level has not effect.
I use the EVB as a Tx,generating a modulated signal,say 100MHz at2,4Kbps 1010 GFSK.
The Rx is my bord,
i set at 170Mhz Rx mode(synth dividers calculated 100KHz lower,169.90 Mhz), MUXOUT set to digital lock,i wait for it going high(in Tx it works)
then i perform the readback in the following steps
1)ADC Enable setting bit 8 of register 8 (0x108)
2)Setting value to write in Readback setup register :Readback for ADC out and ADC converting RSSI,Readback enabled
3)I write the above value(0x147) in Register 7 ,Readback Setup Register
4)I set register 0 to have RSSI_Ready signalled on MUX_OUT ,
5)I wait until RSS_ Ready is high,but it it looks always high,..why?
6)I perform the Readback in 18 clock cycles
7)I turn off ADC
Thanks again for your attention
Diego
