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1 The Tx power levels put out by a GSM mobile station are subject to strict |
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2 specifications, and on the Calypso+Iota+Rita chipset they are produced by |
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3 writing different values into the APC DAC register. But what value should be |
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4 written into the APC DAC in order to produce a given Tx power level in dBm? |
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5 The answer varies from one produced device unit to the next, and even more from |
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6 one board design to the next, hence these APC values need to be calibrated. |
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8 The general procedure for calibrating Tx power levels is described in both Sara |
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9 and LoCosto calibration documents (see TI-docs), but the LoCosto document adds |
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10 one crucial detail which the Sara one fails to describe. The instructions given |
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11 in the Sara document appear to be perfectly intuitive at first: go through all |
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12 power levels in turn (PL numbers 5-19 for EGSM and GSM850 or 0-15 for DCS and |
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13 PCS), and for each power level command the DUT to transmit at that level, |
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14 measure the actual Tx output power with the CMU200 or other RF test equipment, |
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15 and adjust the APC DAC value up or down to make the output power match the spec. |
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17 The problem is with the very last part: the output power you get with the |
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18 compiled-in APC DAC value is one number, the spec-defined target power is a |
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19 different number, exactly how do you adjust the APC DAC value to hit the target |
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20 power level? |
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22 The LoCosto document gives the answer which was not at all obvious to me at |
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23 first. I draw the reader's attention to section A.3.1 on page 43 of that |
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24 document. The trick is as follows: the relation between the APC DAC value and |
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25 the resulting Tx output power (or rather the equivalent in terms of voltage) is |
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26 modeled as a piecewise linear function, and this piecewise linear function is |
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27 constructed from a preliminary set of output power measurements with a fixed |
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28 set of APC DAC values. Looking at the Vout/LSB slope in each segment of this |
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29 constructed piecewise linear function, one can see that the relation stays |
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30 mostly linear throughout most of the RF PA's valid control range, and at least |
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31 in the case of GSM MS devices made by Openmoko, the factory-calibrated power |
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32 levels all fall into this "good" range in which the PA's response to the APC DAC |
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35 We also have a strong piece of evidence that the Tx power level calibration |
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36 procedure performed by Openmoko at their factory was based on the same principle |
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37 as the LoCosto document version. If you look at the /gsm/rf/tx/levels.900 table |
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38 in Om-calibrated GTA02 units and compare it against the firmware's compiled-in |
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39 version, you will see that the APC DAC values for power levels 5-19 have been |
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40 replaced with calibrated ones as expected, but there is also this oddity: the |
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41 APC DAC value for power level 0 (not a valid number for this band) has been |
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42 replaced with 600. Always 600, a perfect round number, on every unit. |
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44 Having understood the calibration method described in the LoCosto document, the |
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45 mystery of this fixed number 600 becomes clear: the calibration program |
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46 establishes the basis for the calibration by temporarily overwriting the APC DAC |
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47 value in the power level 0 slot with a series of fixed values, 600 being the |
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48 last of them. It constructs the piecewise linear model for the APC from power |
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49 measurements made with these fixed DAC values, and uses this model to compute |
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50 the DAC value for each target power level. The latter DAC values are then |
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51 written into Tx levels table slots 5-19 for EGSM and GSM850, or 0-15 for DCS |
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52 and PCS. In the case of DCS and PCS no visible artifacts remain from the |
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53 calibration basis run (because slot 0 is a valid power level for these bands), |
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54 but an artifact remains in the levels.900 table in the unused slot 0. |
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59 Ideally the power level numbers to be used as the targets for the calibration |
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62 PCS, in 2 dB steps in each case. However, the evidence from TI's calibration |
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63 documents (both Sara and LoCosto) is that some devices are not able to produce |
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64 the very highest and sometimes the very lowest power levels given in the spec, |
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65 and getting a successful calibration requires setting the calibration targets |
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69 by 0.5, whereas the lowest 4 (EGSM) or 6 (DCS) levels are raised and compacted |
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70 together. The table in the LoCosto document (page 44) has the highest power |
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72 29.2 dBm for DCS and PCS, while all other levels are set to the spec numbers. |
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77 the next one down is 30.5/27.5 dBm instead of 05.05-spec-given 31/28 dBm, and |
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88 it *is* possible to make an Openmoko-made GTA02 device put out the full 33 dBm |
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89 in the EGSM band and the full 30 dBm in the DCS and PCS bands by setting the |
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90 APC DAC to higher values than those used by OM's factory calibration. However, |
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91 a closer look reveals that those higher-than-OM's APC DAC values which produce |
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92 the full 33/30 dBm output put the PA outside of its linear range, i.e., the |
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93 relation between the APC DAC control value and the resulting RF Vout no longer |
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95 FreeCalypso calibration, we used to set the higher 32.2/29.2 or even the full |
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96 33/30 dBm targets for the highest power levels prior to the discovery of the |
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97 linearity issue, but our current rf3166 profile set (see below) uses the same |
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98 conversative upper-end targets as OM's original: 31.8/28.8 dBm for the highest |
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99 power level and 30.5/27.5 dBm for the next one down. |
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215 calibration at the highest power level in each group, and set the resulting |
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217 Our procedure produces Tx behaviour that is identical to Openmoko's for the |
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219 calibration that was made closer to them, as opposed to the very highest power |
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220 level. The price of our approach is more time spent in RF calibration for each |
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221 unit on the production line, but our approach is perfectly suited for low volume |
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222 production and aftermarket recalibration services. |
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231 the test is performed at the centre frequency of the specified band, but the |
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232 ARFCN to be used can also be specified on the command line. |