TI Sidewalk Stack 6.41.00.xx Release Notes
Table of Contents
Introduction
Amazon Sidewalk is a secure and reliable community network that covers in-home, in-building, entire neighborhood and even entire city use cases using Amazon Sidewalk bridges, such as compatible Amazon Echo and Ring devices, to provide cloud connectivity for IoT devices. Amazon Sidewalk enables low-bandwidth and long-range connectivity at home and beyond using Bluetooth® Low Energy for short-distance communication and Sub-1 GHz 915 MHz frequencies to cover longer distances. Amazon Sidewalk leverages small portions of internet bandwidth from millions of participating Sidewalk bridges to provide widespread wireless connectivity.
The TI Amazon Sidewalk toolkit provides the fastest option to get started developing Amazon Sidewalk-enabled devices. The toolkit includes the TI tools necessary for the development (hardware, software and documentation) as well as a direct link to the Amazon Web Services IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk.
TI’s SimpleLink™ CC1352P7, CC2652R7 wireless MCUs support the following Amazon Sidewalk protocols:
- Sub-1 GHz FSK
- Bluetooth Low Energy
Key Features
- Broad band antenna support for Sub-1 GHz (including 915 MHz Sidewalk Band) and 2.4 GHz frequency bands
- Frustration-free commissioning with Bluetooth Low Energy and Sub-1 GHz FSK
- Frequency: 915 MHz or 2.4 GHz
- PHY throughput: FSK at 50 kbps or BLE at 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 kbps and 125 kbps
- Network type: Star
- Frequency hopping: Yes
- Multiple levels of security and encryption - see Amazon Sidewalk white paper
Documentation
Installation and Usage
- To build the sample applications with this SDK a supported IDE must be installed (refer to Dependencies below)
- Install the simplelink_cc13xx_cc26xx_sdk_6_41_00_xx installer package on a supported host operating system build machine with Administrator privileges
- The default install path for Windows is C:\ti\simplelink_cc13xx_cc26xx_sdk_6_41_00_xx
- Changing the default install path and/or drive letter may require updating project variables. Do not use a space in the install path
- It is recommended to make a backup of the installation in order to revert modifications to the SDK
What’s New
| ID | Summary |
|---|---|
| TISID-3 | [SPS] Add Sidewalk stack in SimpleLink CC13xx/CC26xx SDK |
| TISID-2 | [SPS] Create Sidewalk application example project |
Fixed Issues
| ID | Summary |
|---|---|
| None | None |
Known Issues
| ID | Summary |
|---|---|
| None | None |
Upgrade and Compatibility Information
The frequency tolerance of the crystals on TI LaunchPads are not Wi-SUN compliant at extreme temperatures. For end products requiring very high or very low temperatures, make sure to use a crystal that ensures accuracy within the Wi-SUN specification.
Operating System Support
Please refer to the SDK release notes.
Dependencies
The TI Amazon Sidewalk took was built and tested on both Windows 10 and Linux host platforms using the following Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), toolchains, and components. For supported tool and component version numbers, see the top level SDK release notes.
- TI Code Composer Studio
- TI Code Generation Tools for Arm
- ARM GCC Compiler Tools
- FreeRTOSv202104.00
Note: Earlier IDE/toolchain versions are not supported and compatibility with newer versions of supported IDEs is not assured.
Device Support
Development Board Support
Validation
TODO: Validation information here, still need Amazon info.
Versioning
This product follows a version format, M.mm.pp.bb, where:
- M is a 1 digit major number,
- mm is a 2 digit minor number,
- pp is a 2 digit patch number,
- bb is a 2 digit incrementing build counter.