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Direction finding AoA: Unexpected delay every time antenna pattern is repeated

Hi!

I am running Zephyr sample application for direction finding zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx  with minor modifications on nRF52833 DK. I have set my ant_patterns to {5U, 3U, 5U, 3U} (only two antennae repeating till 160 us of CTE is reached). After I got some unexpected results I checked my output pins driven by radio on oscilloscope and saw something that I am not aware of from BT core spec.

I have configured switching and sampling slot to be 2 us. First results are shown on picture below. Every time switching happens purple signal should change its value (as well as cyan)

From what I have read from BT core spec than in my example every 4 us (2*slot_duration) switching should occur. But in my case switching occurs after 4 us than 8 us and again 4 us and 8 us (4 us, 8 us, 4 us , 8 us,...). It looks like I got delayed switching for 4 us every time purple signal is at high level. It looks like that every time antenna pattern is repeated switching got delayed.

If I changed my antenna pattern to {5U, 3U, 5U, 3U,  5U, 3U, 5U, 3U, 5U, 3U, 5U, 3U} (same as before but I added repeating pattern by hand)  I got following results:

From this picture it is clear that the amount of repeating sequences I wrote to antenna pattern by hand than I get this number of switching correct. But then when all this pattern is repeated, next switching is again delayed  for 4 us (8 us since last switch happened).

Is this some sort of bug in software or in hardware or am I missing something from BT core spec? Is this delay normal before every time switching pattern from ant_patterns is repeated?

Any help would be appreciated.

  • Hi

    Due to the summer vacation period we are currently understaffed, so delayed replies must be expected. I am sorry about any inconvenience this might cause.

    Have you checked out our Direction Finding Whitepaper on the Infocenter? I think what you might be seeing is the guard period or reference period. Please see chapters 3 and 4 specifically for details.

    Best regards,

    Simon

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