Radio Control Layer (RCL) 8.20.01.14 Release Notes

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Radio Control Layer (RCL) component for the LPF3 SDK consists of:

• High-level Radio Control Layer driver providing scheduling and power management
• Low-level RF protocol implementation
• Radio core firmware images
• RF configuration arrays and settings
• API documentation

Disclaimer

See Upgrade and Compatibility Information for details.

Documentation

The following documentation is included in RCL.

• API documentation
• Release Notes (this document)

Build Size

The following is the output of the TI ARM Clang size tool:

Note this is the total size of the archive, not necessarily the size of the final linked program.

Dependencies

• coresdk_lpf3: 8.10.01.04
• TI ARM LLVM: 3.2.2.LTS-0
• GCC: 9.2019.q4.major-0
• IAR: 9.50.2-1
• Radioconfig: 8.20.00.47

Hardware Setup

This release is tested with the following hardware:

• LP_EM_CC2340R5
• LP_EM_CC2745R10_Q1

No hardware modifications are required.

What’s New

This list contains all new features in: v8.20

Fixed Issues

This list contains all bugfixes in: v8.20

Known Issues

Upgrade and Compatibility Information

ADC Noise PHY Settings

The pre-generated ADC Noise PHY settings, previously found in rcl_settings_adc_noise.c/h, are no longer provided as part of the rcl_*.a libraries. Any application using the RCL_AdcNoise_* API need to generate these settings with SysConfig, to make sure e.g. symbol LRF_configAdcNoise is available at link time. Please see the below code snippet for an example on how to do this, matching what was provided in rcl_settings_adc_noise.c/h.

In the application *.syscfg configuration file:

# Add the radioconfig module for custom PHY configuration.
const custom = scripting.addModule("/ti/devices/radioconfig/custom");

# Select the ADC Noise PHY, and ensure expected symbol name generation.
custom.ble = ["adc_noise"];
custom.radioConfigadc_noise.codeExportConfig.phyAbbr = true;

Known Limitations

The following scenarios have limited test coverage in the RCL module tests:

• Stress testing or throughput testing of connection
• Testing of adding buffers to the radio while it is running
• The testing of fields in the stats structures

Versioning

This product’s version follows a version format, M.mm.pp.bb, where M is a single digit Major number, mm is 2 digit minor number, pp is a 2 digit patch number, and b is an unrestricted set of digits used as an incrementing build counter.