# Copyright (c) 2020 Nordic Semiconductor ASA # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 description: | Nordic nRF family RADIO peripheral. This controls the 2.4 GHz radio transceiver on nRF5x SoCs, which is available for use with Bluetooth, 802.15.4, and proprietary wireless protocols (not all of these protocols are available on all SoCs; consult the product specifications for details). This binding is not relevant to the nRF91x baseband radio. Front-End Module (FEM) support ------------------------------ External front-end modules are range extenders used for boosting the link robustness and link budget of wireless SoCs. If your system includes an external FEM, set it up in the devicetree using this binding's 'fem' property, like this example: &radio { fem = <&nrf_radio_fem>; }; nrf_radio_fem: my-fem { compatible = "..."; .... }; Currently supported "compatible" properties for the FEM node are: - generic-fem-two-ctrl-pins - nordic,nrf21540-fem Refer to the bindings for these compatibles for more information about how to configure the FEM. Direction Finding Extension --------------------------- Some radios support the Bluetooth Direction Finding Extension (DFE). The 'dfe-supported' property will be set when it is available. In this case, the 'dfegpio[n]-gpios' properties configure GPIO pins to use to drive antenna switching. Each dfegpio[n]-gpios property which is set is used to initialize the corresponding PSEL.DFEGPIO[n] register. None of the dfegpio[n]-gpios properties are marked 'required', since which PSEL.DFEGPIO[n] registers will be used to drive antenna switches depends on the use case. Nevertheless, at least two antennas must be available to use DFE. That in turn means that at least one dfegpio[n]-gpios property must be provided if DFE is used, to give the radio the possibility to switch between two antennas. To use 12 antennas, 4 GPIOs must be provided (since 4 GPIO pins support switching up to 16 antennas). GPIOs are used in order, following the indices of the dfegpio[n]-gpios properties. The order is important because it affects the mapping of antenna switch patterns to GPIOs. Antenna switching patterns -------------------------- An antenna switching pattern is a binary number where each bit is applied to a particular antenna GPIO pin. For example, the pattern 0x3 means that antenna GPIOs at indexes 0 and 1 will be set, while the following are left unset. The number of GPIOs specified with dfegpio[n]-gpios properties affects the allowed pattern values. For example, when using four GPIOs, the pattern count cannot be greater than 16, and the maximum allowed value is 15. Antenna switch patterns are stored in DFE internal memory by writes to the SWITCHPATTERN register. DFE handling code applies antenna switch patterns during Constant Tone Extension (CTE) receive (Angle of Arrival mode) or transmission (Angle of Departure mode) procedure. DFE States ---------- There are four states of DFE operation: * Idle: in this state, PDU transmission happens. DFE uses SWITCHPATTERN[0] to select the antenna in this state. (The 'dfe-pdu-antenna' property value described below is stored in SWITCHPATTERN[0] by the radio controller code.) * Guard: in this state, DFE prepares for reception or transmission of CTE. For this state, DFE selects the antenna by applying SWITCHPATTERN[1]. * Reference: in this state, DFE starts to receive or transmit CTE. In AoA mode, DFE collects reference IQ samples. The selected antenna is the same as in the guard state. * Switch-sample: in this state, actual antenna switching happens. DFE selects antennas by applying SWITCHPATTERN[2..N]. If the number of switch-sample periods is greater than the number of stored switching patterns, DFE loops back to SWITCHPATTERN[2]. compatible: "nordic,nrf-radio" include: [base.yaml] properties: reg: required: true interrupts: required: true fem: type: phandle description: | Phandle linking the RADIO node to its external front-end module. coex: type: phandle description: | Phandle linking the RADIO node to the external radio coexistence arbitrator. dfe-supported: type: boolean description: | If set, the radio hardware supports the Direction Finding Extension. This property should be treated as read-only and should not be overridden; the correct value is provided for your target's SoC already. dfe-antenna-num: type: int description: | Number of available antennas for the Direction Finding Extension. This should only be set if dfe-supported is true. If you set this property, the value must be at least two. dfe-pdu-antenna: type: int description: | Antenna switch pattern to be used for transmission of PDU before start of transmission of Constant Tone Extension. This should only be set if dfe-supported is true. This pattern is stored in SWITCHPATTERN[0] before actual antenna switching patterns. This pattern will also be used to drive GPIOs when the radio releases control of GPIOs used to switch antennas. dfegpio0-gpios: type: phandle-array description: | Pin select for DFE pin 0. This should only be set if dfe-supported is true. For example, to use P0.2 on an nRF5x SoC: dfegpio1-gpios = <&gpio0 2 0>; To use P1.4: dfegpio1-gpios = <&gpio1 4 0>; Note the last 'flags' cell in the property is not used, and should be set to 0 as shown. dfegpio1-gpios: type: phandle-array description: | Pin select for DFE pin 1. See description for dfegpio0-gpios. dfegpio2-gpios: type: phandle-array description: | Pin select for DFE pin 2. See description for dfegpio0-gpios. dfegpio3-gpios: type: phandle-array description: | Pin select for DFE pin 3. See description for dfegpio0-gpios. dfegpio4-gpios: type: phandle-array description: | Pin select for DFE pin 4. See description for dfegpio0-gpios. dfegpio5-gpios: type: phandle-array description: | Pin select for DFE pin 5. See description for dfegpio0-gpios. dfegpio6-gpios: type: phandle-array description: | Pin select for DFE pin 6. See description for dfegpio0-gpios. dfegpio7-gpios: type: phandle-array description: | Pin select for DFE pin 7. See description for dfegpio0-gpios. ieee802154-supported: type: boolean description: | If set, indicates that the radio hardware supports the IEEE 802.15.4 mode. ble-2mbps-supported: type: boolean description: | If set, indicates that the radio hardware supports the 2 Mbps BLE mode. ble-coded-phy-supported: type: boolean description: | If set, indicates that the radio hardware supports coded BLE PHY. tx-high-power-supported: type: boolean description: | If set, indicates that the radio hardware supports high TX power settings. cs-supported: type: boolean description: | If set, the radio hardware supports the BLE Channel Sounding feature. This property should be treated as read-only and should not be overridden; the correct value is provided for your target's SoC already.