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nordic,nrf21540-fem

Vendor: Nordic Semiconductor

Description

This is a representation of the nRF21540 Radio Front-End module.

See the "nordic,nrf21540-fem-spi" binding to configure the SPI
interface. The SPI interface should be configured as a child node
of the SPI bus you have connected to the FEM. Then you "connect"
the FEM and SPI configurations using the spi-if property.

Here is an example nRF21540 configuration with a SPI interface
selected, using the SPIM0 peripheral found on several nRF5 SoCs:

  &spi0 {
          compatible = "nordic,nrf-spim";
          status = "okay";
          cs-gpios = <&gpio1 3 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
          /* ... MISO/MOSI/SCK pin configuration goes here ... */

          my_spi_if: nrf21540-spi@0 {
                  compatible = "nordic,nrf21540-fem-spi";
                  reg = <0>;
                  spi-max-frequency = <8000000>;
          };
  };

  nrf_radio_fem: nrf21540 {
          compatible = "nordic,nrf21540-fem";
          tx-en-gpios = <&gpio0 2 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
          rx-en-gpios = <&gpio0 5 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
          spi-if = <&my_spi_if>;
          pdn-gpios = <...>;
          ant-sel-gpios = <...>;
          mode-gpios = <...>;
          /* ... other nRF21540 properties go here ... */
  };

  &radio {
          fem = <&nrf_radio_fem>;
  };

In the above example, the nRF21540 is configured for use with:

  - TX_EN on P0.2 (from 'tx-en-gpios')
  - RX_EN on P0.5 (from 'rx-en-gpios')
  - SPI communication via SPIM0 (the bus, or parent node, of
    the 'my_spi_if' node
  - CSN on P1.3 (from index 0 in the bus node's 'cs-gpios' property)

You must perform any additional required SPI pin configuration
(nRF21540 MISO, MOSI, and SCK pins) within the SPI bus node
('spi0' in the above example). See your SPI node's binding for
details on these pin mux properties. You can use any SPI node
available in your SoC's devicetree.

Configure any other nRF21540 pins as needed using 'pdn-gpios',
'ant-sel-gpios', and 'mode-gpios' properties. If unsure about the
format, use 'tx-en-gpios' as an example.

Finally, the nRF5 SoC's radio peripheral is set up for use with
the nRF21540 via the 'fem' property in the 'radio' node.

Properties

Properties not inherited from the base binding file.

Name

Type

Details

tx-en-gpios

phandle-array

GPIO of the SOC controlling TX_EN pin of the nRF21540

rx-en-gpios

phandle-array

GPIO of the SOC controlling RX_EN pin of the nRF21540

pdn-gpios

phandle-array

GPIO of the SOC controlling PDN pin of the nRF21540

ant-sel-gpios

phandle-array

GPIO of the SOC controlling ANT-SEL pin of the nRF21540

mode-gpios

phandle-array

GPIO of the SOC controlling MODE pin of the nRF21540

spi-if

phandle

Reference to the nordic,nrf21540-fem-spi SPI bus interface.

This must be present to support SPI control of the FEM.

tx-en-settle-time-us

int

Settling time in microseconds from state PG to TX.

Default value is based on Table 6 of the nRF21540 Product
Specification (v1.0), and can be overridden for tuned
configurations.

Default value: 11

rx-en-settle-time-us

int

Settling time in microseconds from state PG to RX.

Default value is based on Table 6 of the nRF21540 Product
Specification (v1.0), and can be overridden for tuned
configurations.

Default value: 11

pdn-settle-time-us

int

Settling time in microseconds from state PD to PG.

Default value is based on Table 6 of the nRF21540 Product
Specification (v1.0), and can be overridden for tuned
configurations.

Default value: 18

trx-hold-time-us

int

Power-off time in microseconds when changing from RX or TX to PG.

Default value is based on Table 6 of the nRF21540 Product
Specification (v1.0), and can be overridden for tuned
configurations.

Default value: 3

Deprecated properties not inherited from the base binding file.

(None)

Properties inherited from the base binding file, which defines common properties that may be set on many nodes. Not all of these may apply to the “nordic,nrf21540-fem” compatible.

Name

Type

Details

status

string

indicates the operational status of a device

Legal values: 'ok', 'okay', 'disabled', 'reserved', 'fail', 'fail-sss'

See Important properties for more information.

compatible

string-array

compatible strings

This property is required.

See Important properties for more information.

reg

array

register space

See Important properties for more information.

reg-names

string-array

name of each register space

interrupts

array

interrupts for device

See Important properties for more information.

interrupts-extended

compound

extended interrupt specifier for device

interrupt-names

string-array

name of each interrupt

interrupt-parent

phandle

phandle to interrupt controller node

label

string

Human readable string describing the device (used as device_get_binding() argument)

See Important properties for more information.

clocks

phandle-array

Clock gate information

clock-names

string-array

name of each clock

#address-cells

int

number of address cells in reg property

#size-cells

int

number of size cells in reg property

dmas

phandle-array

DMA channels specifiers

dma-names

string-array

Provided names of DMA channel specifiers

io-channels

phandle-array

IO channels specifiers

io-channel-names

string-array

Provided names of IO channel specifiers

mboxes

phandle-array

mailbox / IPM channels specifiers

mbox-names

string-array

Provided names of mailbox / IPM channel specifiers

wakeup-source

boolean

Property to identify that a device can be used as wake up source.

When this property is provided a specific flag is set into the
device that tells the system that the device is capable of
wake up the system.

Wake up capable devices are disabled (interruptions will not wake up
the system) by default but they can be enabled at runtime if necessary.

power-domain

phandle

Power domain the device belongs to.

The device will be notified when the power domain it belongs to is either
suspended or resumed.