Wurth Elektronik Telesto-I User manual

USER MANUAL
TELESTO-I
AMB9625 / 2607021191000
VERSION 2.4
MAY 19, 2023

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Revision history
Manual
version
FW
version
HW
version Notes Date
1.0 3.4.7 2.0 • Initial version June 2017
2.0 3.4.7 2.0 • New corporate design and
structure November 2018
2.1 3.5.0 2.0
• Added information on new
firmware in chapter Firmware
history
• Added chapter Reference design
• Added chapter Information for
explosion protection
February 2019
2.2 3.5.0 2.0
• Updated label in chapter General
labeling information
• Updated address of Division
Wireless Connectivity & Sensors
location
October 2019
2.3 3.5.0 2.0 • Updated the firmware update
chapter. June 2020
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2.4 3.5.0 2.0
• Removed 2607021191001 and
2607021191009 from Ordering
information as there are no
longer pre-cuts or non T&R
packages available. The modules
are available in all quantities as
cut tape.
• New corporate design.
May 2023
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Abbreviations
Abbreviation Name Description
ACK Acknowledgement Acknowledgement pattern confirming the reception of
the transmitted data packet.
CS Checksum
DC Duty cycle Transmission time in relation of one hour. 1% means,
channel is occupied for 36 seconds per hour.
FSE Field Sales
Engineer
Support and sales contact person responsible for
limited sales area
0xhh [HEX] Hexadecimal
All numbers beginning with 0x are stated as
hexadecimal numbers. All other numbers are
decimal.
HIGH High signal level
LOW Low signal level
LPM Low power mode Operation mode for reduced power consumption.
LRM Long range mode Tx mode increasing the RX sensitivity by using
spreading and forward error correction
LSB Least significant
bit
MSB Most significant bit
PL Payload The real, non-redundant information in a
frame/packet.
RF Radio frequency Describes everything relating to the wireless
transmission.
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter allows
communicating with the module of a specific
interface.
US UserSettings
Any relation to a specific entry in the UserSettings is
marked in a special font and can be found in the
respective chapter.
VDD Supply voltage
Payload The real, non-redundant information in a frame/packet
User
settings
Any relation to a specific entry in the user settings is
marked in a special font and can be found in the
respective chapter
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter, allows
to communicate with the module of a specific
interface.
Duty cycle Transmission time in relation of one hour 1% means,
channel is occupied for 36 seconds per hour.
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Hexadecimal
[HEX]
0xhh
All numbers beginning with 0x are stated as
hexadecimal numbers. All other numbers are
decimal.
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Contents
Overview of helpful application notes 11
1. Introduction 12
1.1. Operational description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.2. Blockdiagram..................................... 12
1.3. Orderinginformation................................. 13
2. Electrical specifications 14
2.1. Recommended operating conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2. Absolute maximum ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.3. Powerconsumption.................................. 14
2.3.1. Static..................................... 15
2.4. Radiocharacteristics................................. 15
2.5. Pincharacteristics .................................. 15
2.6. Integrated flash characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3. Pinout 17
4. Quickstart 19
4.1. Minimal pin configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.2. Powerup ....................................... 19
4.3. Quickstartexample.................................. 20
5. Functional description 23
5.1. Operatingmodes................................... 23
5.1.1. Switching from transparent to command mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.1.2. Switching from command to transparent mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.1.3. Transparentmode.............................. 24
5.1.4. /RTS signal, module busy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.1.5. Commandmode .............................. 25
5.2. Adopting parameters to fit your application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.3. Device addressing and wireless monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
6. Host connection 26
6.1. Serialinterface:UART................................ 26
7. The command interface 27
7.1. Overview ....................................... 27
7.2. Messageoverview .................................. 28
7.3. Data transfer & reception in the command mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7.3.1. CMD_DATA_REQ.............................. 30
7.3.1.1. Example1: ............................... 30
7.3.2. CMD_DATAEX_REQ ............................ 31
7.3.2.1. Example1: ............................... 31
7.3.3. CMD_DATAEX_IND............................. 32
7.3.3.1. Example1: ............................... 32
7.3.4. CMD_DATARETRY_REQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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7.3.5. CMD_REPEAT_IND ............................ 33
7.4. Requesting parameters and actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
7.4.1. CMD_FWRELEASE_REQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
7.4.1.1. Example1: ............................... 35
7.4.2. CMD_SERIALNO_REQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
7.4.3. CMD_RESET_REQ............................. 36
7.4.4. CMD_RSSI_REQ.............................. 36
7.4.4.1. Example1: ............................... 37
7.4.5. CMD_ERRORFLAGS_REQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
7.5. Modification of volatile parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
7.5.1. CMD_SET_MODE_REQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
7.5.2. Example1:.................................. 39
7.5.3. CMD_SET_PAPOWER_REQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
7.5.3.1. Example1: ............................... 40
7.5.4. CMD_SET_CHANNEL_REQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
7.5.4.1. Example1: ............................... 41
7.5.5. CMD_SET_DESTNETID_REQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
7.5.6. CMD_SET_DESTADDR_REQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
7.6. Modification of non-volatile parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
7.6.1. CMD_SET_REQ .............................. 43
7.6.1.1. Example1: ............................... 44
7.6.1.2. Example2: ............................... 44
7.6.2. CMD_GET_REQ .............................. 45
7.6.2.1. Example1: ............................... 45
7.6.3. CMD_FACTORY_RESET_REQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
8. UserSettings - Module configuration values 47
8.1. Difference between volatile and non-volatile settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
8.2. Modifying the UserSettings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
8.3. UART_PktMode.................................... 49
8.3.1. Example1:.................................. 49
8.3.2. Example2:.................................. 50
8.4. UART_PktSize .................................... 51
8.4.1. Example1:.................................. 51
8.4.2. Example2:.................................. 51
8.5. UART_RTSLimit ................................... 52
8.5.1. Example1:.................................. 52
8.5.2. Example2:.................................. 52
8.6. UART_ETXChar ................................... 53
8.6.1. Example1:.................................. 53
8.6.2. Example2:.................................. 53
8.7. UART_Timeout.................................... 54
8.7.1. Example1:.................................. 54
8.7.2. Example2:.................................. 54
8.8. UART_DIDelay .................................... 55
8.8.1. Example1:.................................. 55
8.8.2. Example2:.................................. 55
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8.9. MAC_NumRetrys................................... 56
8.9.1. Example1:.................................. 56
8.9.2. Example2:.................................. 56
8.10. MAC_AddrMode ................................... 57
8.10.1.Example1:.................................. 57
8.10.2.Example2:.................................. 58
8.11. MAC_NumRetrysCCA ................................ 59
8.11.1.Example1:.................................. 59
8.11.2.Example2:.................................. 59
8.12. MAC_CCARetryDelay ................................ 60
8.12.1.Example1:.................................. 60
8.12.2.Example2:.................................. 60
8.13. MAC_DefaultDestNetID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
8.13.1.Example1:.................................. 61
8.13.2.Example2:.................................. 61
8.14. MAC_DefaultDestAddrLSB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
8.14.1.Example1:.................................. 62
8.14.2.Example2:.................................. 62
8.15. MAC_DefaultSourceNetID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
8.15.1.Example1:.................................. 63
8.15.2.Example2:.................................. 63
8.16. MAC_DefaultSourceAddrLSB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
8.16.1.Example1:.................................. 64
8.16.2.Example2:.................................. 64
8.17. MAC_ACKTimeout.................................. 65
8.17.1.Example1:.................................. 65
8.17.2.Example2:.................................. 65
8.18. PHY_PAPower .................................... 66
8.18.1.Example1:.................................. 66
8.18.2.Example2:.................................. 66
8.19. PHY_DefaultChannel................................. 68
8.19.1.Example1:.................................. 68
8.19.2.Example2:.................................. 68
8.20. PHY_CCAThr..................................... 69
8.20.1.Example1:.................................. 69
8.20.2.Example2:.................................. 69
8.21. OpMode........................................ 70
8.21.1.Example1:.................................. 70
8.21.2.Example2:.................................. 70
8.22. CfgFlags........................................ 71
8.22.1.Example1:.................................. 72
8.22.2.Example2:.................................. 72
8.23. RpFlags........................................ 73
8.23.1.Example1:.................................. 73
8.23.2.Example2:.................................. 74
8.24. RP_NumSlots..................................... 75
8.24.1.Example1:.................................. 76
8.24.2.Example2:.................................. 76
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8.24.3. UART_Baudrate: Configure the UART speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
8.24.4.Example1:.................................. 77
8.24.5.Example2:.................................. 77
8.25. UART_Databits.................................... 79
8.25.1.Example1:.................................. 79
8.25.2.Example2:.................................. 79
8.26. UART_Parity ..................................... 80
8.26.1.Example1:.................................. 80
8.26.2.Example2:.................................. 80
8.27. UART_Stoppbits ................................... 82
8.27.1.Example1:.................................. 82
8.27.2.Example2:.................................. 82
8.28. RF_ConfigIndex ................................... 83
8.28.1.Example1:.................................. 83
8.28.2.Example2:.................................. 83
8.29. RF_CCADisabled................................... 85
8.29.1.Example1:.................................. 85
8.29.2.Example2:.................................. 85
8.30. RF_CCACheckTime ................................. 87
8.30.1.Example1:.................................. 87
8.30.2.Example2:.................................. 87
9. Timing parameters 88
9.1. Resetbehavior .................................... 88
9.1.1. Power-onreset ............................... 88
9.1.2. Reset via /RESET pin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
9.1.3. Reset as result of a serious error condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
9.2. Latencies when leaving the LPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
9.3. Latencies during data transfer / packet generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
10.Radio parameters 90
10.1. Channelassignment ................................. 90
11.Using the repeater functionality 92
11.1. Setup of the network and repeater device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
11.2. Examplenetwork................................... 94
11.3. Application in parallel networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
12.Battery powered operation 96
12.1. Activemode...................................... 96
12.2. Stand-bymode .................................... 96
13.Custom firmware 97
13.1. Custom configuration of standard firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
13.2. Customer specific firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
13.3. Customerfirmware.................................. 97
13.4. Contact for firmware requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
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