Hi!

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Miklos Maroti wrote:

>> I reverted back to channel 11.
>
> Thanks
>
>> Question: from what I see in datasheet the RF230 has support for automatic
>> acks. Is this not used by the current RF230 stack?
>
> Yes, it does have automatic ack, but look at the errata and you will
> see that it does not work in certain cases, and besides it will have
> the same problem as the cc2420 stack that is you will ack packets that
> you cannot deliver to the appliaction.

But right now we are seeing the opposite, right? The MCU asks the 
radio to send an ack but the radio doesn't.

> So it is better to use software ack, and in fact you can do that (read 
> the message verify the crc since there is no auto crc check, check the 
> unique identifier then generate the ack) in less than 200 microseconds 
> between the RX finish interrupt and the next SFD field! It is very quick 
> and provably reliable.

If the radio conditions are bad on channel 26 then CC2420 should equally 
be effected.

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Razvan ME
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