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5 The Silicon Labs Si4713 FM Radio Transmitter Driver
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8 Copyright |copy| 2009 Nokia Corporation
10 Contact: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@nokia.com>
13 Information about the Device
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16 This chip is a Silicon Labs product. It is a I2C device, currently on 0x63 address.
17 Basically, it has transmission and signal noise level measurement features.
19 The Si4713 integrates transmit functions for FM broadcast stereo transmission.
20 The chip also allows integrated receive power scanning to identify low signal
23 The chip is programmed using commands and responses. There are also several
24 properties which can change the behavior of this chip.
26 Users must comply with local regulations on radio frequency (RF) transmission.
28 Device driver description
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31 There are two modules to handle this device. One is a I2C device driver
32 and the other is a platform driver.
34 The I2C device driver exports a v4l2-subdev interface to the kernel.
35 All properties can also be accessed by v4l2 extended controls interface, by
36 using the v4l2-subdev calls (g_ext_ctrls, s_ext_ctrls).
38 The platform device driver exports a v4l2 radio device interface to user land.
39 So, it uses the I2C device driver as a sub device in order to send the user
40 commands to the actual device. Basically it is a wrapper to the I2C device driver.
42 Applications can use v4l2 radio API to specify frequency of operation, mute state,
43 etc. But mostly of its properties will be present in the extended controls.
45 When the v4l2 mute property is set to 1 (true), the driver will turn the chip off.
47 Properties description
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50 The properties can be accessed using v4l2 extended controls.
51 Here is an output from v4l2-ctl util:
55 / # v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 --all -L
57 Driver name : radio-si4713
58 Card type : Silicon Labs Si4713 Modulator
61 Capabilities : 0x00080800
64 Audio output: 0 (FM Modulator Audio Out)
65 Frequency: 1408000 (88.000000 MHz)
66 Video Standard = 0x00000000
69 Capabilities : 62.5 Hz stereo rds
70 Frequency range : 76.0 MHz - 108.0 MHz
71 Subchannel modulation: stereo+rds
75 mute (bool) : default=1 value=0
77 FM Radio Modulator Controls
79 rds_signal_deviation (int) : min=0 max=90000 step=10 default=200 value=200 flags=slider
80 rds_program_id (int) : min=0 max=65535 step=1 default=0 value=0
81 rds_program_type (int) : min=0 max=31 step=1 default=0 value=0
82 rds_ps_name (str) : min=0 max=96 step=8 value='si4713 '
83 rds_radio_text (str) : min=0 max=384 step=32 value=''
84 audio_limiter_feature_enabled (bool) : default=1 value=1
85 audio_limiter_release_time (int) : min=250 max=102390 step=50 default=5010 value=5010 flags=slider
86 audio_limiter_deviation (int) : min=0 max=90000 step=10 default=66250 value=66250 flags=slider
87 audio_compression_feature_enabl (bool) : default=1 value=1
88 audio_compression_gain (int) : min=0 max=20 step=1 default=15 value=15 flags=slider
89 audio_compression_threshold (int) : min=-40 max=0 step=1 default=-40 value=-40 flags=slider
90 audio_compression_attack_time (int) : min=0 max=5000 step=500 default=0 value=0 flags=slider
91 audio_compression_release_time (int) : min=100000 max=1000000 step=100000 default=1000000 value=1000000 flags=slider
92 pilot_tone_feature_enabled (bool) : default=1 value=1
93 pilot_tone_deviation (int) : min=0 max=90000 step=10 default=6750 value=6750 flags=slider
94 pilot_tone_frequency (int) : min=0 max=19000 step=1 default=19000 value=19000 flags=slider
95 pre_emphasis_settings (menu) : min=0 max=2 default=1 value=1
96 tune_power_level (int) : min=0 max=120 step=1 default=88 value=88 flags=slider
97 tune_antenna_capacitor (int) : min=0 max=191 step=1 default=0 value=110 flags=slider
99 Here is a summary of them:
101 * Pilot is an audible tone sent by the device.
103 - pilot_frequency - Configures the frequency of the stereo pilot tone.
104 - pilot_deviation - Configures pilot tone frequency deviation level.
105 - pilot_enabled - Enables or disables the pilot tone feature.
107 * The si4713 device is capable of applying audio compression to the
110 - acomp_enabled - Enables or disables the audio dynamic range control feature.
111 - acomp_gain - Sets the gain for audio dynamic range control.
112 - acomp_threshold - Sets the threshold level for audio dynamic range control.
113 - acomp_attack_time - Sets the attack time for audio dynamic range control.
114 - acomp_release_time - Sets the release time for audio dynamic range control.
116 * Limiter setups audio deviation limiter feature. Once a over deviation occurs,
117 it is possible to adjust the front-end gain of the audio input and always
118 prevent over deviation.
120 - limiter_enabled - Enables or disables the limiter feature.
121 - limiter_deviation - Configures audio frequency deviation level.
122 - limiter_release_time - Sets the limiter release time.
126 - power_level - Sets the output power level for signal transmission.
127 antenna_capacitor - This selects the value of antenna tuning capacitor
128 manually or automatically if set to zero.
132 - rds_ps_name - Sets the RDS ps name field for transmission.
133 - rds_radio_text - Sets the RDS radio text for transmission.
134 - rds_pi - Sets the RDS PI field for transmission.
135 - rds_pty - Sets the RDS PTY field for transmission.
139 - preemphasis - sets the preemphasis to be applied for transmission.
144 This device also has an interface to measure received noise level. To do that, you should
145 ioctl the device node. Here is an code of example:
149 int main (int argc, char *argv[])
151 struct si4713_rnl rnl;
152 int fd = open("/dev/radio0", O_RDWR);
161 sscanf(argv[1], "%d", &rnl.frequency);
163 rval = ioctl(fd, SI4713_IOC_MEASURE_RNL, &rnl);
167 printf("received noise level: %d\n", rnl.rnl);
172 The struct si4713_rnl and SI4713_IOC_MEASURE_RNL are defined under
173 include/linux/platform_data/media/si4713.h.
175 Stereo/Mono and RDS subchannels
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178 The device can also be configured using the available sub channels for
179 transmission. To do that use S/G_MODULATOR ioctl and configure txsubchans properly.
180 Refer to the V4L2 API specification for proper use of this ioctl.
184 Testing is usually done with v4l2-ctl utility for managing FM tuner cards.
185 The tool can be found in v4l-dvb repository under v4l2-apps/util directory.
187 Example for setting rds ps name:
191 # v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 --set-ctrl=rds_ps_name="Dummy"