any electrical noise. The purpose of the ground vias is to
connect the local ground plane to the main ground layer.
The Bluetooth radio will be self shielding and no additional
shields should be necessary for normal operating conditions.
The ANT pin should be connected to a 50
interface, thereby supporting the best signal strength
performance. Ericsson Microelectronics partners can
support application speci c antennas.
There are ve digital inputs available for the radio
controlling features of the PBA 313 05. The Bluetooth timing
requirements for these are described in table 3 and gure 5.
In addition, there is a digital input signal for hardware reset
of the radio, and a digital input signal for waking up the
clock circuitry after a sleep mode period.
Table 3. Timing requirements for data transmission.
Packet switch on control is active ‘high’. Activate this signal
during reception of a Bluetooth payload.
PX_ON is used to control the Slicer of the receiver. Since
the General Inquiry Access Code (GIAC), information in
a Bluetooth packet header contains an equal number of
), the average frequency will
always be centred on the carrier frequency. This provides
the Slicer the reference for the fast tuning. If the fast mode
is not used during the header then the rst bits could be
The slow mode gives a more accurate FSK compensation
of the thresholds for a one and a zero compared to the
fast mode; therefore, the BER is less. The fast mode (time
constant < 2µs) is used when PX_ON is deactivated and the
slow mode (time constant < 50 µs) when it is activated.
Synthesiser on control is active ‘high’. Activate this signal
to power up of the VCO section of the radio. SYNT_ON is
used in both transmit and receive mode. This activates the
Receive-on control is active ‘high’. Activate this signal to
enable reception of Bluetooth data on the RX_DATA pin.
The transmit-on control (TX_ON) must be deactivated
and the synthesiser (SYNT_ON) activated if data is to be
Transmit-on control is active ‘high’. Activate this signal
to enable radio signal output on the ANT pin. The actual
transfer of data that exists on the TX_DATA input occurs
when TX_DATA_EN goes ‘high’. The receive-on control,
RX_ON, must also be ‘low’ and the transmit-switch, TX_SW,
be held “high” if data is to be transmitted.
Enables the modulator thus allowing the input data on
TX_DATA to modulate the carrier in transmit mode. TX_
DATA_EN is activated after the initialisation of the SYNT_ON
signal and the TX_ON signal.
External power on reset is active ‘high’. An external power-
on-reset digital input signal that will reset the radio controller
and its registers. A reset will occur on the positive edge
of RESET_N signal. The signal should remain high during
System clock request control is active ‘high’. Once the
crystal oscillator bit (XO
, control register, bit #2) has been
set, use this control to switch off (sleep mode) and wake up
(idle and operating modes) the reference clock circuitry and
corresponding 13 MHz and 1 MHz clock output ports of the
Figure 5. Timing sequence for data transmission.