On Jul 9, 2007, at 9:50 PM, Andy Dalton wrote:
Greetings,
I'm looking to control the default radio power level at runtime for
Telos motes using TinyOS-2.x. In tos/chips/cc2420/CC2420Power.nc I
see the following comment:
"[This] does not include transmission power, see the CC2420Config
interface."
However, the CC2420Config interface does not include any command to
set the default radio power level. The file
tos/chips/cc2420/CC2420ControlP.nc includes a state variable
'm_tx_power' that is initialized to CC2420_DEF_RFPOWER; however, that
variable is never used. The file tos/chips/cc2420/CC2420TransmitP.nc
directly uses CC2420_DEF_RFPOWER to set the default power level:
if ( !tx_power ) {
// If our packet's tx_power wasn't configured to anything but 0,
// send it using the default RF power. This assumes the
// packet's metadata is all set to 0's on boot.
tx_power = CC2420_DEF_RFPOWER;
}
It looks to me like the original intent was to provide a software
interface for setting the default radio power level via the
CC2420Config, but that its realization got lost along the way. With
the current implementation, I cannot see a way to set the default
radio power in software.
One way to resolve this would be to add two new commands to the
CC2420Config interface:
command uint8_t getDefaultTxPower();
command void setDefaultTxPower(uint8_t txPower);
Then, in CC2420ControlP add implementations of those commands (again,
'm_tx_power' is already declared in this module and initialized to
CC2420_DEF_RFPOWER):
command uint8_t CC2420Config.getDefaultTxPower() {
return m_tx_power;
}
command uint8_t CC2420Config.setDefaultTxPower(uint8_t txPower) {
m_tx_power = txPower;
}
Then, in CC2420TransmitP use the CC2420Config interface, and call the
getDefaultTxPower command to set the default power:
if ( !tx_power ) {
// If our packet's tx_power wasn't configured to anything but 0,
// send it using the default RF power. This assumes the
// packet's metadata is all set to 0's on boot.
tx_power = call CC2420Config.getDefaultTxPower();
}
Does this seem reasonable? Am I missing some other mechanism to set
the default radio power level in software?
To follow up, because my first answer was completely irrelevant to
your question...
The person to talk with about this idea would be David Moss, he's the
current maintainer of the CC2420 stack. Once 2.0,2 goes out, there
will probably be a good deal of discussion on -devel with respect to
some proposed changes core has for radio interfaces[1]. We wanted to
postpone them until a possible 2.1 and get feedback from the
community. It might be useful to incorporate these kinds of changes
in that reworking.
Phil
[1] Changes to getPayload to make it more easily checkable by memory
safety tools and removing accessors from Receive so it can have fan-in.
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