1 Driver for I2C radios for the Silicon Labs Si4713 FM Radio Transmitters
3 Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation
4 Contact: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@nokia.com>
7 Information about the Device
8 ============================
9 This chip is a Silicon Labs product. It is a I2C device, currently on 0x63 address.
10 Basically, it has transmission and signal noise level measurement features.
12 The Si4713 integrates transmit functions for FM broadcast stereo transmission.
13 The chip also allows integrated receive power scanning to identify low signal
16 The chip is programmed using commands and responses. There are also several
17 properties which can change the behavior of this chip.
19 Users must comply with local regulations on radio frequency (RF) transmission.
21 Device driver description
22 =========================
23 There are two modules to handle this device. One is a I2C device driver
24 and the other is a platform driver.
26 The I2C device driver exports a v4l2-subdev interface to the kernel.
27 All properties can also be accessed by v4l2 extended controls interface, by
28 using the v4l2-subdev calls (g_ext_ctrls, s_ext_ctrls).
30 The platform device driver exports a v4l2 radio device interface to user land.
31 So, it uses the I2C device driver as a sub device in order to send the user
32 commands to the actual device. Basically it is a wrapper to the I2C device driver.
34 Applications can use v4l2 radio API to specify frequency of operation, mute state,
35 etc. But mostly of its properties will be present in the extended controls.
37 When the v4l2 mute property is set to 1 (true), the driver will turn the chip off.
39 Properties description
40 ======================
42 The properties can be accessed using v4l2 extended controls.
43 Here is an output from v4l2-ctl util:
44 / # v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 --all -L
46 Driver name : radio-si4713
47 Card type : Silicon Labs Si4713 Modulator
50 Capabilities : 0x00080800
53 Audio output: 0 (FM Modulator Audio Out)
54 Frequency: 1408000 (88.000000 MHz)
55 Video Standard = 0x00000000
58 Capabilities : 62.5 Hz stereo rds
59 Frequency range : 76.0 MHz - 108.0 MHz
60 Subchannel modulation: stereo+rds
64 mute (bool) : default=1 value=0
66 FM Radio Modulator Controls
68 rds_signal_deviation (int) : min=0 max=90000 step=10 default=200 value=200 flags=slider
69 rds_program_id (int) : min=0 max=65535 step=1 default=0 value=0
70 rds_program_type (int) : min=0 max=31 step=1 default=0 value=0
71 rds_ps_name (str) : min=0 max=96 step=8 value='si4713 '
72 rds_radio_text (str) : min=0 max=384 step=32 value=''
73 audio_limiter_feature_enabled (bool) : default=1 value=1
74 audio_limiter_release_time (int) : min=250 max=102390 step=50 default=5010 value=5010 flags=slider
75 audio_limiter_deviation (int) : min=0 max=90000 step=10 default=66250 value=66250 flags=slider
76 audio_compression_feature_enabl (bool) : default=1 value=1
77 audio_compression_gain (int) : min=0 max=20 step=1 default=15 value=15 flags=slider
78 audio_compression_threshold (int) : min=-40 max=0 step=1 default=-40 value=-40 flags=slider
79 audio_compression_attack_time (int) : min=0 max=5000 step=500 default=0 value=0 flags=slider
80 audio_compression_release_time (int) : min=100000 max=1000000 step=100000 default=1000000 value=1000000 flags=slider
81 pilot_tone_feature_enabled (bool) : default=1 value=1
82 pilot_tone_deviation (int) : min=0 max=90000 step=10 default=6750 value=6750 flags=slider
83 pilot_tone_frequency (int) : min=0 max=19000 step=1 default=19000 value=19000 flags=slider
84 pre_emphasis_settings (menu) : min=0 max=2 default=1 value=1
85 tune_power_level (int) : min=0 max=120 step=1 default=88 value=88 flags=slider
86 tune_antenna_capacitor (int) : min=0 max=191 step=1 default=0 value=110 flags=slider
89 Here is a summary of them:
91 * Pilot is an audible tone sent by the device.
93 pilot_frequency - Configures the frequency of the stereo pilot tone.
94 pilot_deviation - Configures pilot tone frequency deviation level.
95 pilot_enabled - Enables or disables the pilot tone feature.
97 * The si4713 device is capable of applying audio compression to the transmitted signal.
99 acomp_enabled - Enables or disables the audio dynamic range control feature.
100 acomp_gain - Sets the gain for audio dynamic range control.
101 acomp_threshold - Sets the threshold level for audio dynamic range control.
102 acomp_attack_time - Sets the attack time for audio dynamic range control.
103 acomp_release_time - Sets the release time for audio dynamic range control.
105 * Limiter setups audio deviation limiter feature. Once a over deviation occurs,
106 it is possible to adjust the front-end gain of the audio input and always
107 prevent over deviation.
109 limiter_enabled - Enables or disables the limiter feature.
110 limiter_deviation - Configures audio frequency deviation level.
111 limiter_release_time - Sets the limiter release time.
115 power_level - Sets the output power level for signal transmission.
116 antenna_capacitor - This selects the value of antenna tuning capacitor manually
117 or automatically if set to zero.
121 rds_ps_name - Sets the RDS ps name field for transmission.
122 rds_radio_text - Sets the RDS radio text for transmission.
123 rds_pi - Sets the RDS PI field for transmission.
124 rds_pty - Sets the RDS PTY field for transmission.
128 preemphasis - sets the preemphasis to be applied for transmission.
133 This device also has an interface to measure received noise level. To do that, you should
134 ioctl the device node. Here is an code of example:
136 int main (int argc, char *argv[])
138 struct si4713_rnl rnl;
139 int fd = open("/dev/radio0", O_RDWR);
148 sscanf(argv[1], "%d", &rnl.frequency);
150 rval = ioctl(fd, SI4713_IOC_MEASURE_RNL, &rnl);
154 printf("received noise level: %d\n", rnl.rnl);
159 The struct si4713_rnl and SI4713_IOC_MEASURE_RNL are defined under
160 include/media/si4713.h.
162 Stereo/Mono and RDS subchannels
163 ===============================
165 The device can also be configured using the available sub channels for
166 transmission. To do that use S/G_MODULATOR ioctl and configure txsubchans properly.
167 Refer to the V4L2 API specification for proper use of this ioctl.
171 Testing is usually done with v4l2-ctl utility for managing FM tuner cards.
172 The tool can be found in v4l-dvb repository under v4l2-apps/util directory.
174 Example for setting rds ps name:
175 # v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 --set-ctrl=rds_ps_name="Dummy"