NXP Semiconductors MKW01 User manual

Document Number: MKW01SMACRM
Rev. 0.0
3/2015
MKW01 Simple Media Access
Controller (SMAC)
Reference Manual

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Chapter 1.
MKW01 SMAC Introduction
1.1. MKW01 SMAC-based Demonstration Applications ..............................................................6
1.2. Platform Requirements ............................................................................................................7
1.3. MCU Resources Used by SMAC ............................................................................................7
1.4. SMAC Basic Initialization .......................................................................................................7
Chapter 2.
Software Architecture
2.1. Block Diagram .........................................................................................................................9
2.2. MKW01 SMAC Data Types and Structures ..........................................................................10
2.2.1 Fundamental Data Types ................................................................................................. 10
2.2.2 rxPacket_t ........................................................................................................................ 10
2.2.3 smacHeader_t................................................................................................................... 11
2.2.4 rxStatus_t ......................................................................................................................... 12
2.2.5 smacPdu_t........................................................................................................................ 12
2.2.6 txPacket_t......................................................................................................................... 12
2.2.7 channels_t ........................................................................................................................ 13
2.2.8 smacErrors_t.................................................................................................................... 14
2.2.9 txContextConfig_t ........................................................................................................... 15
2.2.10 smacTestMode_t............................................................................................................ 15
2.2.11 packetConfig_t............................................................................................................... 15
2.2.12 smacRFModes_t ............................................................................................................ 16
2.2.13 smacEncryptionKeyIV_t ............................................................................................... 16
2.3. MKW01 SMAC to Application Messaging ...........................................................................17
Chapter 3.
Primitives
3.1. MCPSDataRequest ................................................................................................................21
3.2. MLMETXDisableRequest .....................................................................................................22
3.3. MLMEConfigureTxContext ..................................................................................................23
3.4. MLMERXEnableRequest ......................................................................................................24
3.5. MLMERXDisableRequest .....................................................................................................25
3.6. MLMELinkQuality ................................................................................................................26
3.7. MLMESetChannelRequest ....................................................................................................26
3.8. MLMEGetChannelRequest ...................................................................................................27
3.9. MLMEPAOutputAdjust .........................................................................................................27
3.10. MLMEPhySoftReset ............................................................................................................28
3.11. MLMEScanRequest .............................................................................................................28
3.12. MLMECcaRequest ..............................................................................................................29

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3.13. MLMESetPreambleLength ..................................................................................................30
3.14. MLMESetSyncWordSize ....................................................................................................30
3.15. MLMESetSyncWordValue ..................................................................................................30
3.16. MLMEPacketConfig ............................................................................................................31
3.17. MLMESetAdditionalRFOffset ............................................................................................31
3.18. MLMEGetAdditionalRFOffset ............................................................................................32
3.19. SMACSetShortSrcAddress ..................................................................................................32
3.20. SMACSetPanID ...................................................................................................................33
3.21. SMACFillHeader .................................................................................................................34
3.22. SMAC_SetIVKey ................................................................................................................34
3.23. Smac_RegisterSapHandlers .................................................................................................35

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About This Book
This manual provides a detailed description of the Freescale MKW01 Simple Media Access Controller
(MKW01 SMAC). This software is designed for use specifically with the MKW01 platform. The MKW01
is a highly-integrated, cost-effective, system-in-package (SiP), sub-1 GHz wireless node solution with an
FSK, GFSK, MSK, or OOK modulation-capable transceiver and low-power, ARM Cortex M0+ 32-bit
microcontroller. The highly integrated RF transceiver operates over a wide frequency range including 315
MHz, 433 MHz, 470 MHz, 868 MHz, 915 MHz, 928 MHz, and 955 MHz in the license-free Industrial,
Scientific, and Medical (ISM) frequency bands.
The MKW01 SMAC software is pre-defined to operate in the 470–510 MHz , 863–870 MHz, 902–928
MHz and 920–928 MHz bands.
Audience
This document is intended for application developers working on custom wireless applications that
employ the MKW01. The latest version of the Freescale MKW01 SMAC is available in the Freescale
website.
Organization
This document is organized into four chapters and one appendix.
Chapter 1 MKW01 SMAC Introduction — This chapter introduces MKW01 SMAC
features and functionality.
Chapter 2 Software Architecture — This chapter describes MKW01 SMAC software
architecture.
Chapter 3 Primitives — This chapter provides a detailed description of MKW01 SMAC
primitives.
Revision History
The following table summarizes revisions to this document since the previous release.
Conventions
This document uses the following notational conventions:
•Courier monospaced type indicate commands, command parameters, code examples,
expressions, datatypes, and directives.
•Italic type indicates replaceable command parameters.
• All source code examples are in C.
Revision History
Location Revision
MKW01SMACRM This is the first release of the RTOS
and KSDK enabled SMAC manual.

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Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
The following list defines the acronyms and abbreviations used in this document.
MKW01 MKW01 Platforms (FRDM-KW01, MRB-KW01, USB-KW01)
GUI Graphical User Interface
MAC Medium Access Control
MCU MicroController Unit
NVM Non-Volatile Memory
PC Personal Computer
TERM Serial Port Terminal Application
XCVR Transceiver
PCB Printed Circuit Board
OTA Over the air.
SAP Service Access Point
ACK Acknowledge
AA Automatic ACK
LBT Listen Before Talk
RX Receive(r)
TX Transmit(ter)
CCA Clear Channel Assessment
ED Energy Detect
References
The following sources were referenced to produce this book:
1. Freescale MKW01 Reference Manual (MKW01xxRM.pdf)

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Chapter 1
MKW01 SMAC Introduction
The Freescale MKW01 Simple Media Access Controller (MKW01 SMAC) is a simple ANSI C based
codebase available as sample source code. The MKW01 SMAC is used for developing proprietary RF
transceiver applications using Freescale’s MKW01 sub-1 GHz transceiver plus microcontroller. The
MKW01 is a system-in-package (SIP) device that includes an ARM Cortex M0+ based microcontroller
and a sub-GHz ISM band radio front-end device in an LGA-56 package. Features of the MKW01 include:
• MCU has a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0+ CPU with a full set of peripheral functions
• MCU has 128KB flash and 16KB SRAM
• Full featured, programmable sub-1 GHz transceiver that supports FSK, GFSK, MSK, GMSK, and
OOK modulations schemes.
• The MKW01 has internal and external connections between the MCU and transceiver:
—The MCU communicates with the transceiver through an internally connected SPI port.
—Several transceiver status bits are also internally or externally connected to MCU GPIO and are capable
of generating interrupt requests.
NOTE
It is highly recommended the SMAC user be familiar with the MKW01
device. Additional details can be found in the device data sheet (MKW01)
and the MKW01 Reference Manual (MKW01xxRM).
The MKW01 SMAC is a small codebase that provides simple communication and test applications based
on drivers, (802.15.4 compliant) PHY and framework utilities available as source code. This environment
is useful for hardware and RF debug, hardware standards certification, and developing proprietary
applications. The MKW01 SMAC is provided as part of the Example Application Demos available for
MKW01 and also as a standalone set of files.
To use any of the existing applications available in MKW01 SMAC, users must download and open the
available Application Demos in the corresponding development environment (IDE).
SMAC features include:
• Compact footprint:
— Between 2 to 3KB of flash required, depending on configuration used.
— Less than 500 bytes RAM, depending on configuration used.
• Very low power, proprietary, bidirectional RF communication link.
• The MKW01 radio allows checking the preamble and the synchronization word, which reduces
software overhead and memory footprint.

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• Broadcast communication
• Unicast communication — MKW01 SMAC includes a Node Address 16-bit field. This allows
SMAC to perform unicast transmissions. To change the address of a node, modify this constant:
gNodeAddress_cinsidetheSMAC_Config.h file, orcallSMACSetShortSrcAddress(uint16_t
nwShortAddress). The address is set to 0xBEAD by default. Some of the Demo Applications
will allow the user to change this address at runtime.
• Change of current PAN. The SMAC packet uses a short 802.15.4 compliant header with a
hard-coded configuration for frame control which allows the user to switch between PANs. The
PAN address has also 16 bits (gDefaultPanID_c). This address can be modified both by changing
the default value from SMAC_Config.h file or by calling SMACSetPanID(uint16_t
nwShortPanID.
• There are no blocking functions within the MKW01 SMAC.
•Flexible enoughto configurepacket header (preamble size, synchronization word size, and synchronization
word value)
• Pre-defined settings at four different bands to initialize the SMAC protocol. The currently
supported operating frequency bands are:
— 863 – 870 MHz (Europe)
— 902 – 928 MHz (US)
— 920 – 928 MHz (Japan)
— 470 – 510 MHz (China)
• Easy-to-use sample applications included.
• Light-weight, custom LBT algorithm.
• Light-weight, custom, AA mechanism which is transparent to the user after enabling the feature.
• Encryption using Advanced Encryption Standard in Cipher Block Chaining mode, with
configurable initial vector and key.
• Configurable number of retries and backoff interval.
• Inter-layer communication using SAPs.
• The MKW01 SMAC also filters packets that have correct addressing information (pass address
filtering) but are not in the expected format (short addressing, no security, data frame).
1.1 MKW01 SMAC-based Demonstration Applications
The following is a list of MKW01 SMAC-based demonstration applications:
• PC-based Connectivity Test Application which requires a TERM. This application allows the user
to perform basic communication tests and several advanced XCVR tests.
• PC-based Wireless Messenger Application which requires a TERM and is presented in the form of
a messenger-like application. This demo application highlights the “Listen Before Talk” and
“Automatic ACK” mechanisms, allowing the user to enable, disable and configure them at
runtime.
• PC-based Wireless UART Application which requires either a TERM or an application capable of
reading/writing from/to a serial port. This application is used as a wireless UART bridge between

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two or more (one to many) MKW01 platforms. It can be configured to use the previously
mentioned mechanisms, but the configuration must be done at compile time.
• PC-based Low Power Demo Application which requires a TERM. This application aids the user in
enabling low power modes on the MKW01 platforms.
1.2 Platform Requirements
The SMAC can be used with anycustomer target applicationorboard, however,Freescale provides several
development platform (modular reference board, freedom board and usb dongle) designs with leds,
pushbuttons and other modules included.
1.3 MCU Resources Used by SMAC
As stated, the MKW01 contains an MCU and a transceiver in a single package. The SMAC does not use
MCU resources directly. All accesses to the MCU resources are performed using the framework, drivers
and PHY.
1.4 SMAC Basic Initialization
Before transmitting, receiving, or performing any other SMAC operation described in this manual, the
system protocol must be initialized to configure the transceiver with correct functional settings and to set
SMAC's state machine to known states. To initialize the SMAC, perform the following tasks in order:
1. Initialize MCU interrupts and peripherals. This initialization is included in every demo in the
hardware_init(void) function, available as source code.
— Initialize LED, Keyboard, Serial Manager, Timers Manager, Memory Manager, drivers
depending on application needs.
MEM_Init();
TMR_Init();
LED_Init();
SerialManager_Init();
— Initalize PHY layer.
Phy_Init();
2. Initialize SMAC, to set the SMAC state machine to default, configure addressing with default
values, initialize the RNG used for the first sequence number value and the random backoff.
InitSmac();
3. Set the SAPhandlers so that SMAC can notifythe application on asynchronous events on both data
and management layers.
void Smac_RegisterSapHandlers(
SMAC_APP_MCPS_SapHandler_t pSMAC_APP_MCPS_SapHandler,
SMAC_APP_MLME_SapHandler_t pSMAC_APP_MLME_SapHandler,

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instanceId_t smacInstanceId
)
4. Reserve the RAM memory space needed by SMAC to allocate the received and transmitted OTA
messages by declaring the buffers that must be of the size gMaxSmacSDULength_c + sizeof(packet
type):
uint8_t RxDataBuffer[gMaxSmacSDULength_c + sizeof(rxPacket_t)];
rxPacket_t *RxPacket;
uint8_t TxDataBuffer[gMaxSmacSDULength_c + sizeof(txPacket_t)];
txPacket_t *TxPacket;
RxPacket = (rxPacket_t*)RxDataBuffer;
TxPacket = (txPacket_t*)TxDataBuffer;