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Product details

Frequency range 2400 MHz Standard Proprietary 2.4 GHz Operating temperature range (°C) -40 to 85 Rating Catalog Transmission principle 2-FSK, GFSK, MSK, OOK
Frequency range 2400 MHz Standard Proprietary 2.4 GHz Operating temperature range (°C) -40 to 85 Rating Catalog Transmission principle 2-FSK, GFSK, MSK, OOK
VQFN (RGP) 20 16 mm² (4 mm × 4 mm)
  • RF Performance
    • High sensitivity (-104 dBm at 2.4 kBaud, 1% packet error rate)
    • Low current consumption (13.3 mA in RX, 250 kBaud, input well above sensitivity limit)
    • Programmable output power up to +1 dBm
    • Excellent receiver selectivity and blocking performance
    • Programmable data rate from 1.2 to 500 kBaud
    • Frequency range: 2400 - 2483.5 MHz
  • Analog Features
    • OOK, 2-FSK, GFSK, and MSK supported
    • Suitable for frequency hopping and multichannel systems due to a fast settling frequency synthesizer with 90 us settling time
    • Automatic Frequency Compensation (AFC) can be used to align the frequency synthesizer to the received centre frequency
    • Integrated analog temperature sensor
  • Digital Features
    • Flexible support for packet oriented systems: On-chip support for sync word detection, address check, flexible packet length, and automatic CRC handling
    • Efficient SPI interface: All registers can be programmed with one "burst" transfer
    • Digital RSSI output
    • Programmable channel filter bandwidth
    • Programmable Carrier Sense (CS) indicator
    • Programmable Preamble Quality Indicator (PQI) for improved protection against false sync word detection in random noise
    • Support for automatic Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) before transmitting (for listen-before-talk systems)
    • Support for per-package Link Quality Indication (LQI)
    • Optional automatic whitening and dewhitening of data
  • Low-Power Features
    • 400 nA SLEEP mode current consumption
    • Fast startup time: 240 us from SLEEP to RX or TX mode (measured on EM design)
    • Wake-on-radio functionality for automatic low-power RX polling
    • Separate 64-byte RX and TX data FIFOs (enables burst mode data transmission)
  • General
    • Few external components: Complete onchip frequency synthesizer, no external filters or RF switch needed
    • Green package: RoHS compliant and no antimony or bromine
    • Small size (QLP 4x4 mm package, 20 pins)
    • Suited for systems compliant with EN 300 328 and EN 300 440 class 2 (Europe), FCC CFR47 Part 15 (US), and ARIB STDT66 (Japan)
    • Support for asynchronous and synchronous serial receive/transmit mode for backwards compatibility with existing radio communication protocols
  • Applications
    • 2400-2483.5 MHz ISM/SRD band systems
    • Consumer Electronics
    • Wireless game controllers
    • Wireless audio
    • Wireless keyboard and mouse
    • RF enabled remote controls
  • RF Performance
    • High sensitivity (-104 dBm at 2.4 kBaud, 1% packet error rate)
    • Low current consumption (13.3 mA in RX, 250 kBaud, input well above sensitivity limit)
    • Programmable output power up to +1 dBm
    • Excellent receiver selectivity and blocking performance
    • Programmable data rate from 1.2 to 500 kBaud
    • Frequency range: 2400 - 2483.5 MHz
  • Analog Features
    • OOK, 2-FSK, GFSK, and MSK supported
    • Suitable for frequency hopping and multichannel systems due to a fast settling frequency synthesizer with 90 us settling time
    • Automatic Frequency Compensation (AFC) can be used to align the frequency synthesizer to the received centre frequency
    • Integrated analog temperature sensor
  • Digital Features
    • Flexible support for packet oriented systems: On-chip support for sync word detection, address check, flexible packet length, and automatic CRC handling
    • Efficient SPI interface: All registers can be programmed with one "burst" transfer
    • Digital RSSI output
    • Programmable channel filter bandwidth
    • Programmable Carrier Sense (CS) indicator
    • Programmable Preamble Quality Indicator (PQI) for improved protection against false sync word detection in random noise
    • Support for automatic Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) before transmitting (for listen-before-talk systems)
    • Support for per-package Link Quality Indication (LQI)
    • Optional automatic whitening and dewhitening of data
  • Low-Power Features
    • 400 nA SLEEP mode current consumption
    • Fast startup time: 240 us from SLEEP to RX or TX mode (measured on EM design)
    • Wake-on-radio functionality for automatic low-power RX polling
    • Separate 64-byte RX and TX data FIFOs (enables burst mode data transmission)
  • General
    • Few external components: Complete onchip frequency synthesizer, no external filters or RF switch needed
    • Green package: RoHS compliant and no antimony or bromine
    • Small size (QLP 4x4 mm package, 20 pins)
    • Suited for systems compliant with EN 300 328 and EN 300 440 class 2 (Europe), FCC CFR47 Part 15 (US), and ARIB STDT66 (Japan)
    • Support for asynchronous and synchronous serial receive/transmit mode for backwards compatibility with existing radio communication protocols
  • Applications
    • 2400-2483.5 MHz ISM/SRD band systems
    • Consumer Electronics
    • Wireless game controllers
    • Wireless audio
    • Wireless keyboard and mouse
    • RF enabled remote controls

The CC2500 is a low-cost 2.4 GHz transceiver designed for very low-power wireless applications. The circuit is intended for the 2400-2483.5 MHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) and SRD (Short Range Device) frequency band.

The RF transceiver is integrated with a highly configurable baseband modem. The modem supports various modulation formats and has a configurable data rate up to 500 kBaud.

CC2500 provides extensive hardware support for packet handling, data buffering, burst transmissions, clear channel assessment, link quality indication and wake-on-radio.

The main operating parameters and the 64-byte transmit/receive FIFOs of CC2500 can be controlled via an SPI interface. In a typical system, the CC2500 will be used together with a microcontroller and a few additional passive components.

The CC2500 is a low-cost 2.4 GHz transceiver designed for very low-power wireless applications. The circuit is intended for the 2400-2483.5 MHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) and SRD (Short Range Device) frequency band.

The RF transceiver is integrated with a highly configurable baseband modem. The modem supports various modulation formats and has a configurable data rate up to 500 kBaud.

CC2500 provides extensive hardware support for packet handling, data buffering, burst transmissions, clear channel assessment, link quality indication and wake-on-radio.

The main operating parameters and the 64-byte transmit/receive FIFOs of CC2500 can be controlled via an SPI interface. In a typical system, the CC2500 will be used together with a microcontroller and a few additional passive components.

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* Data sheet Low-Cost Low-Power 2.4 GHz RF Transceiver datasheet (Rev. C) May 19, 2009
* Errata CC2500 Errata Notes (Rev. E) Oct 7, 2013
* Radiation & reliability report CC2500 Reliability report Jul 16, 2007
Application note AN103 -- Basic RF Testing of CCxxxx Devices (Rev. A) PDF | HTML Dec 11, 2025
Application note CE Regulations for SRDs Operating in License-Free 2.4GHz/5GHz Bands-WiFi Devices (Rev. A) PDF | HTML Oct 20, 2022
Application note DN035 -- Antenna Quick Guide (Rev. B) Feb 9, 2022
Application note DN507 -- FEC Decoding Mar 21, 2019
Application note 2.4-GHz Inverted F Antenna (Rev. D) Jan 7, 2019
Application note CRC Implementation (Rev. E) PDF | HTML Sep 27, 2018
Application note AN098 - Layout Review Techniques for Low Power RF Designs (Rev. A) Aug 2, 2012
Application note AN095 -- Continuous Data Streaming Applications - Using Serial Synchronous Mode (Rev. A) Jul 18, 2011
Application note DN034 -- YAGI 2.4 GHz PCB Antenna Oct 14, 2010
User guide YAGI 2.4-GHz PCB Reference Design Oct 14, 2010
Application note AN058 -- Antenna Selection Guide (Rev. B) Oct 6, 2010
Application note DN031 -- CC-Antenna-DK Documentation and Antenna Measurements Summary Aug 26, 2010
Application note DN505 -- RSSI interpretation and timing (Rev. D) Jun 16, 2010
Application note DN509 -- Data Whitening and Random TX Mode Apr 12, 2010
Application note AN085 -- Implementing Diversity Using Low Power Radios Jan 26, 2010
Application note DN500 -- Packet Transmission Basics (Rev. C) Apr 6, 2009
Application note DN400 -- Interfacing CC1100 - CC2500 with MSP430 (Rev. A) Mar 24, 2009
Application note DN501 -- PATABLE Access (Rev. B) Mar 24, 2009
Application note DN111 - Current Consumption for a Polling Receiver (Rev. A) Mar 24, 2009
Application note DN300 -- SmartRF04EB Troubleshooting (Rev. B) Mar 24, 2009
Application note AN047 -- CC1100/CC2500 Wake on Radio (Rev. B) Mar 23, 2009
Application note AN043 -- Small Size 2.4 GHz PCB Antenna (Rev. D) Apr 4, 2008
Application note DN021 - CC2500 and CC2510 Sensitivity versus Frequency Offset and Crystal Accura Mar 10, 2008
Application note AN048 -- 2.4GHz Chip Antenna (Rev. B) Mar 4, 2008
Application note DN506 -- GDO Pin Usage (Rev. A) Oct 22, 2007
Application note DN504 -- FEC Implementation (Rev. A) Oct 22, 2007
Application note DN503 -- SPI Access (Rev. B) Oct 22, 2007
Application note DN014 -- Programming Output Powers on CC2500 and CC2550 Oct 4, 2007
More literature CC2500 Material content Jul 16, 2007
Application note DN004 Folded Dipole Antenna for CCC25xx Dec 5, 2006
More literature CC2500 RoHS Confirmation Jan 31, 2006

Design & development

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SMARTRFTRXEBK — SmartRF Transceiver Evaluation Board

The SmartRF Transceiver Evaluation Board (TrxEB) is intended to be used together with Texas Instruments’ low-power RF transceivers for evaluation, performance testing and software development.

The following transceiver evaluation modules are supported:

  • CC1101EM*
  • CC11xLEM*
  • CC112xEM*
  • CC1175EM*
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BOOST-CCEMADAPTER — EM Adapter BoosterPack

The purpose of the EM adapter board is to provide an-easy-to-use bridge between any of the TI MCU LaunchPads and the wide variety of TI RF evaluation modules (EM), for instance the CCxxxx Low-Power RF evaluation modules. No specific software is provided, so it is up to the user to write the (...)
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SLAC139 — eZ430-RF2500 Sensor Monitor Demo

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SWRC021 — CC1100 CC1101 CC1100E CC2500 Examples Libraries

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Driver or library

SIMPLICITI — SimpliciTI Compliant Protocol Stack

SimpliciTI is a simple low-power RF network protocol aimed at small RF networks. SimpliciTI was designed for easy implementation and deployment out-of-the-box on several TI RF platforms such as the MSP430 family of low-power MCUs and the CC1XXX/CC25XX/CC430 transceivers and SoCs.

Small RF networks (...)
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PACKET-SNIFFER — SmartRF™ Packet Sniffer 2.18.1

The SmartRF Packet Sniffer is a PC software application that can display and store radio packets captured by a listening RF device. The capture device is connected to the PC via USB. Various RF protocols are supported. The Packet Sniffer filters and decodes packets and displays them in a convenient (...)

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SLYC047 — MSP430 MCU eZ430-RF2500 Development Tool

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SWRC046 — SmartRF(TM) Studio 6.13.1

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Calculation tool

SMARTRF-STUDIO-7 — SmartRF Studio 7 application software

SmartRF™ Studio is a Windows application that helps designers of RF systems to easily evaluate the radio at an early stage in the design process for all TI CC1xxx and CC2xxx low-power RF devices. It simplifies generation of the configuration register values and commands, as well as practical (...)

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SIMPLELINK-2-4GHZ-DESIGN-REVIEWS — Hardware design reviews for SimpleLink™ CC2xxx devices

The SimpleLink hardware design review process provides a way to get in touch, one-on-one, with a subject matter expert that can help review your design and provide valuable feedback. A simple three-step process for requesting a review as well as links to relevant technical documentation and (...)

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CC-ANTENNA-DK-RD — Sub-1 GHz and 2.4 GHz Antenna Reference Designs

The Antenna Board reference design contains various low-cost antenna solutions for both sub-1 GHz and 2.4 GHz short range wireless systems.

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Reference design

CC2500_REFDES_062 — CC2500 Reference Design (62 mil layer spacing)

The CC2500EM_REFDES_062 reference design contains schematics and layout files of a board similar to the CC2500EM evaluation module used in the CC2500-CC2550DK development kit, but modified to use a 62 mil (0.062 inch or 1.6mm) layer spacing. The reference design demonstrates proper techniques for (...)

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TIDM-LPBP-EMADAPTER — Evaluation Module (EM) Adaptor

This BoosterPack kit contains one "EM Adapter BoosterPack". The purpose of the EM adapter board is to provide an-easy-to-use bridge between any of the TI MCU LaunchPads and the vide variety of TI RF evaluation modules (EM), for instance the CCxxxx Low-Power RF evaluation modules. No specific (...)

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TIDM-WIRELESS-SENSORNODE — Battery-Operated Wireless Sensor Monitoring Reference Design

This design, featuring the ultra-low-power MSP430 MCU paired with a sub-GHz RF transceiver, enables a battery-operated wireless sensor monitoring solution. This design demonstrates both access point and wireless nodes, which can share sensor data wirelessly using a network protocol called (...)

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