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7.3 Device Control Panel
7.3.1
Basic Mode and Advanced Mode
The RFPDK has two configuration modes: Basic Mode and Advanced Mode.
Basic Mode
A few fundamental settings of the selected device are available for the users to easily get started with their design.
Advanced Mode
All settings of the selected device are available for the users to configure the device more flexibly.
The details of each feature/setting are described in configuration guidelines of each product, as shown in Table 2.
In both Basic and Advanced modes, default configurations can be loaded for direct use, or as a starting point to further customize the chip in the differentiating RF systems.
7.3.2
Configuration List and Chip Parameters
The control panel contains a Configuration List area and a Chip Parameters area.
Configuration List
It lets the users to select predefined chip configuration from the list, including the default configurations provided by
CMOSTEK or the customized configurations save by the user. For the non-default configurations, the user can add notes to the “List Type” column by double-clicking the cell, as shown in the below figure.
Figure 14. Add Note to User-saved Configurations
Chip Parameters
This area contains the parameters to configure the device.
7.3.3
List, Export and Burn
Saving the configurations, generating the EEPROM image file for manufacturing and programming the configuration to the device can be done by pressing the List, Export and Burn buttons on the panel, respectively.
List
The users can click the List button to save a new configuration to the “Configuration List”.
Export
The user can click the Export button to export the current configurations to an EEPROM image file suffixed by “.exp”. The file can be loaded by the manufacturing programmer in mass production phase to program the CMOSTEK NextGenRF
TM products.
Burn
Once all the parameters are properly set and all the hardware are correctly connected, the user can click the Burn button to program the configuration to the chip. A message will pop out to confirm whether the programming is done
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