SLOA247C July   2017  – March 2019 RF430FRL152H , RF430FRL153H , RF430FRL154H

 

  1.   Frequently asked questions for RF430FRL15xH devices
    1.     Trademarks
    2. 1 General Questions
      1. 1.1 What is the RF430FRL15xH?
      2. 1.2 What are the variations of the RF430FRL15xH?
      3. 1.3 What is the recommended hardware and software to evaluate the RF430FRL15xH?
      4. 1.4 I cannot purchase a TRF7970AEVM. How do I use the RF430FRL152HEVM GUI?
      5. 1.5 Does the RF430FRL15xH support NDEF messages?
      6. 1.6 What RF communication range can be expected with the RF430FRL15xH?
    3. 2 Hardware and Design Questions
      1. 2.1  What TI Designs are available for the RF430FRL152H?
      2. 2.2  How do I design and tune an antenna to 13.56 MHz for my application?
      3. 2.3  Why are the various external components required?
      4. 2.4  How much power can be sourced from the RF430FRL15xH?
      5. 2.5  What battery can be used with the RF430FRL15xH?
      6. 2.6  How should the switches be set on the RF430FRL152HEVM?
      7. 2.7  How can an external sensor be connected on the RF430FRL152HEVM?
      8. 2.8  What kinds of analog sensors can be used?
      9. 2.9  How can a digital sensor be used?
      10. 2.10 How can the internal temperature sensor be used?
      11. 2.11 What are the settings to program the RF430FRL152HEVM with an MSP-FET tool?
      12. 2.12 Is there a low-voltage programmer suitable for the RF430FRL15xH?
    4. 3 Software Questions
      1. 3.1 How is the RF430FRL15xH ROM library used?
      2. 3.2 What example firmware is available for the RF430FRL15xH?
        1. 3.2.1 Default Project
        2. 3.2.2 SensorHub Project
        3. 3.2.3 NFC Project
      3. 3.3 Is there an Android app available to interface with the RF430FRL15xH?
      4. 3.4 What is the procedure to change between 4- and 8-byte ISO/IEC 15693 blocks?
      5. 3.5 How can custom ISO/IEC 15693 commands be sent and received?
      6. 3.6 How can a simple SD14 ADC conversion be set up and executed, and the result read back?
      7. 3.7 Where is the software for the TIDM-RF430-TEMPSENSE EVM?
    5. 4 Miscellaneous Questions
      1. 4.1 How can the SD14 ADC result be converted to temperature?
      2. 4.2 Is there a way to program RF430FRL15xH over-the-air?
      3. 4.3 How can the battery-less NFC/RFID temperature sensing patch be used?
      4. 4.4 Is the RF430FRL15xH available as a bare die?
    6. 5 References
  2.   Revision History

1.5 Does the RF430FRL15xH support NDEF messages?

Using the NFC example provided in the RF430FRL152H firmware, you can use user-defined NDEF messages that will be recognized by NFC handsets. Some older NFC mobile handsets do not support NFC Tag Type 5 configured tags but still support ISO/IEC 15693 RFID with raw transceiver commands, like read and write single block.

When NDEF support is used, much of the ROM functionality must be deactivated, because the NDEF message and the virtual registers share the same portion of memory. Only the RF stack is supported with this feature. While the ROM in this mode cannot take SD14 measurements and there is no host controller support, the SD14 and I2C or SPI modules are still functional and can be controlled by custom user code in FRAM. For the example projects provided (see Section 2.4 ) only the NFC example has NDEF support. The "Default" and "SensorHub" examples only have ISO/IEC 15693 RFID support.

NOTE

The term virtual registers refers to all the registers that exist in FRAM memory space that are programmable over RF (or a host controller) and control ROM operation.