Radio Control Layer (RCL) 9.11.01.02 Release Notes

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Radio Control Layer (RCL) component for the LPF3 SDK consists of:

Disclaimer

See Upgrade and Compatibility Information for details.

Documentation

The following documentation is included in RCL.

Build Size

The following is the output of the TI ARM Clang size tool:

Component Flash Size (Bytes) RAM Size (Bytes)
Other 1178 161
LRF 4674 38
RCL 5484 5
BLE5 Command Handler 19060 0
IEEE 802.15.4 Command Handler 7702 0
Generic PHY Command Handler 6326 0
ADC Noise Command Handler 932 0
Totals 45356 (8.65%) 204 (0.55%)

Note this is the total size of the archive, not necessarily the size of the final linked program.

Dependencies

Hardware Setup

This release is tested with the following hardware:

No hardware modifications are required.

What’s New

This list contains all new features in: v9.11

ID Summary
None None

Fixed Issues

This list contains all bugfixes in: v9.11

ID Summary
RCL-998 IEEE 802.15.4: TX action does not end if another frame type is received when an ACK is expected
RCL-996 IEEE 802.15.4: Coex signals may behave incorrectly if an ACK is expected, but not received after transmitting
RCL-995 IEEE 802.15.4 Frames with only CRC, no MAC header, pass frame filtering instead of being ignored
RCL-992 IEEE 802.15.4: Radio may hang if Coex is enabled and a very short frame is received
RCL-1013 IEEE 802.15.4: Calling RCL_IEEE_updateRxAction() may cause command to end with RCL_CommandStatus_Error

Known Issues

ID Summary
RCL-343 PBE NESB - Address mismatch counter not implemented

Upgrade and Compatibility Information

IEEE 802.15.4 API

The function RCL_IEEE_getPartialFrame has been deprecated. Use RCL_IEEE_readPartialFrame instead.

Known Limitations

The following scenarios have limited test coverage in the RCL module tests:

Versioning

This product’s version follows a version format, M.mm.pp.bb, where M is a single digit Major number, mm is 2 digit minor number, pp is a 2 digit patch number, and b is an unrestricted set of digits used as an incrementing build counter.