Get Your Anaren AIR Booster Packs Working with SimpliciTI

The Anaren AIR software package currently only supports IAR. If you wish to get it working with CCS, you will have to wait till January 2012, which is not very far away. But ADIDAIllini shared his tip on getting the Anaren AIR Booster Packs working with TI’s SimpliciTI stack on the CC110L. He used GWDeveloper’s SimpliciTI example/tutorial for the Launchpad.

I am admitted noob at SPI and all this, but I did end up getting the SimpliciTI stuff working (as far as I can tell). I had to do a couple of things, though.
1) If you are in the US, you need to change your radio cofiguration using SmartRF Studio.
2) Don’t install your crystal, the air booster uses XIN/XOUT for SPI. You can get around it with jumper changes and cutting traces, but it is a pain.
3) On the AIR booster for JP3 (CSN) connect the pads for position 3 (otherwise it wants to use XOUT as CSN, this doesn’t really work with simplicity because it is setup for all of the SPI to be on Port1)
4) In mrfi_boards_defs.h change GDO2 to BIT 0 on Port 1 instead of BIT 7 on Port 2. You have to change the bit number and all the port information too. Each line for GDO2 has a change in it.

Read a more detailed writeup in his thread.