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FIGURE 1. 0900PC15A0036 RENDERING
Texas Instruments CC1352 x Johanson Technology 0900PC15A0036
INTRODUCTION
Integrated passive components, known simply as IPCs, are devices designed with a complete circuit embedded into a single package
rather than discretely placed on the PCB. With the advent of wearables and the overall miniaturization of electronic devices, it has
become an ever-increasing priority among designers to reduce both size and complexity while maintaining comparable performance. In
an effort to simplify the implementation of the TI CC1352R and CC1352P chipsets, Johanson Technology (JTI) and Texas Instruments
(TI) have worked together to create a compact, matched solution for the TI CC1352R and
CC1352P chipsets.
JOHANSON TECHNOLOGY 0900PC15A0036
The 0900PC15A0036 is an IPC designed by Johanson Technology to specifically operate in
conjunction with TI chipsets CC1352R and CC1352P. Pairing the two devices together cuts
down the number of components required for impedance matching, balun transformation, and
harmonic filtering. For solutions with an integrated antenna, the RF passive component count
is reduced from 23 to 3.
COMPONENTS INTEGRATED
In order to illustrate the change in BOM that the 0900PC15A0036 provides, Figures 2 and 3 show the difference in component count
between the IPC reference design and discrete reference design. This reduction also leads to decreased pick-and-place costs.
FIGURE 2. DISCRETE COMPONENTS INTEGRATED INTO IPC
FIGURE 3. IPC REFERENCE DESIGN
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PCB SPACE REDUCTION
Figure 4 below is a to-scale comparison between the IPC reference design solution and the original discrete solution from Texas
Instruments.
FIGURE 4. SIZE COMPARISON BETWEEN IPC AND DISCRETE COMPONENTS
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PERFORMANCE COMPARISON
Table 1 below summarizes the overall link budget of JTI’s IPC vs. the discrete solution at maximum output power. In addition, Monte
Carlo method shows that the IPC exhibits much more consistent performance over mass production when compared to the varying
tolerances of 20+ individual L/C components.
TABLE 1. SUMMARY OF LINK BUDGET AT MAXIMUM POWER
A comprehensive look electrical and RF performance can be found in Texas Instruments’ application report SWRA629A.
LINKS
Johanson Technology 0900PC15A0036 Datasheet
Texas Instruments Application Report SWRA629A
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