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author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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date | Sun, 28 May 2017 03:21:34 +0000 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/doc/TI-docs Sun May 28 03:21:34 2017 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +We don't have a TI calibration document that exactly matches the +Calypso+Iota+Rita chipset we are working with, but we do have two different +documents from other points in TI history: + +ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/GSM/Calypso/rf_calibration.pdf + +https://www.freecalypso.org/LoCosto-docs/Production%20test%20and%20calibration/i_sample_rf_test_and_calibration_13_03_04_01991%20-%20v026.pdf + +The rf_calibration.pdf document we found back in 2011 dates from well before +our Calypso+Iota+Rita chipset and describes TI's much earlier Sara RF, whereas +the LoCosto document naturally deals with TI's LoCosto/I-Sample platform. + +To the best of our understanding of TI history, Sara RF is two generations +before our Rita RF (as far as we know, the evolutionary line went from Sara to +Clara to Rita), whereas LoCosto (combining the baseband processor and RF +in the same chip) was a later development after the Calypso, hence our chipset +and the corresponding TCS211 firmware fall right in between the two calibration +docs we have. + +The details of the calibration procedures that are correct for our +Calypso+Iota+Rita chipset and closely match those that have been performed by +Openmoko's factory have been reconstructed by Mychaela Falconia after very +careful scrutiny of both Sara and LoCosto calibration documents, combined with +detective analysis of calibration artifact files found in Openmoko-made GTA02 +units; neither the Sara document nor the LoCosto one is particularly instructive +by itself, and a *lot* of intelligent filling of the blanks was required.