Rainbow Electronics ATA5812 User Manual
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ATA5811/ATA5812 [Preliminary]
4689B–RKE–04/04
Figure 16. Power Setting and Output Matching
Output Power and TX
Supply Current versus
Supply Voltage and
Temperature
Table 8 on page 20 shows the measurement of the output power for a typical device
with VS1 = VS2 = VS in the 433.92 MHz and 6.2 dBm case versus temperature and
supply voltage measured according to Figure 16 on page 19 with components according
to Table 7. As opposed to the receiver sensitivity the supply voltage has here the major
impact on output power variations because of the large signal behavior of a power
amplifier. Thus, a two battery system with voltage regulator or a 5 V system shows
much less variation than a 2.4 V to 3.6 V one battery system because the supply voltage
is then well within 3.0 V and 3.6 V.
The reason is that the amplitude at the output RF_OUT with optimum load resistance is
AVCC - 0.4 V and the power is proportional to (AVCC - 0.4 V)
2
if the load impedance is
not changed. This means that the theoretical output power reduction if reducing the sup-
ply voltage from 3.0 V to 2.4 V is 10 log ((3 V - 0.4 V)
2
/(2.4 V - 0.4 V)
2
) = 2.2 dB. Table 8
on page 20 shows that principle behavior in the measurement. This is not the same
case for higher voltages since here increasing the supply voltage from 3 V to 3.6 V
should theoretical increase the power by 1.8 dB but only 0.8 dB in the measurement
shows that the amplitude does not increase with the supply voltage because the load
impedance is optimized for 3 V and the output amplitude stays more constant.
ATA5811/ATA5812
RF_OUT
10
C
1
L
1
RF
OUT
AVCC
C
2
C
3
R_PWR
PWR_H
R
1
VPWR_H
8
9
Table 7. Measured Output Power and Current Consumption with VS1 = VS2 = 3 V, T
amb
= 25°C
Frequency (MHz) TX Current (mA) Output Power (dBm)
R1 (k
Ω
)
VPWR_H
R
Lopt
(
Ω
)
L1 (nH)
Q
L1
C1 (pF) C3 (pF)
315
8.5
0.4
56
GND
2500
82
28
1.5
0
315
10.5
5.7
27
GND
920
68
32
2.2
0
315
16.7
10.5
27
AVCC
350
56
35
3.9
0
433.92
8.6
0.1
56
GND
2300
56
40
0.75
0
433.92
11.2
6.2
22
GND
890
47
38
1.5
0
433.92
17.8
11
22
AVCC
300
33
43
2.7
0
868.3
9.3
-0.3
33
GND
1170
12
58
1.0
3.3
868.3
11.5
5.4
15
GND
471
15
54
1.0
0
868.3
16.3
9.5
22
AVCC
245
10
57
1.5
0