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The HFA3524 synthesizer chip requires the following timing to appear on the serial port lines:
Figure 3.
HFA3524 Serial Port Timing Diagram 
TIR26[3] ANTSEN
The ANTSEN bit of TIR26 should be set to a 1 at all
times.
The ANTSEN bit is used to determine the nature of the
signalling that will appear on the ANTSLT and ANTSLT
pins of the Am79C930 device. When ANTSEN is reset
to a 0, then the timing of the signals named above will
be determined by the ANT_SEL state machine in the
TAI portion of the Am79C930 device. The setting of
ANTSEN = ZERO should be used whenever the anten-
na selection will be performed by the Am79C930 device.
A setting of ANTSEN = ONE is used when the ANTSLT
and ANTSLT pins are to be used for any other purpose
in the system. A setting of ANTSEN = ONE disables the
Am79C930 internal antenna selection logic. 
Note: In the application described herein, the HARRIS
PRISM chipset will perform the antenna selection func-
tion and, hence, a setting of ANTSEN = ONE should be
used.
When ANTSEN is set to a 1, then the timing of the sig-
nals appearing on the ANTSLT and ANTSLT pins will
be determined by firmware manipulation of the
ANTSLTD bit (TIR26[4]) and the ANTSLTLD bit
(TCR7[1]). For the application described in this applica-
tion note, antenna selection will be performed by the
HSP3824 and, hence, the Am79C930 device ANTSLT
and ANTSLT pins will be available for other use. In the
HARRIS PRISM PC CARD application, ANTSLT and
ANTSLT pins will be used to control the filter selection
in the HFA3724 device. The Am79C930 firmware will
create the appropriate signalling through register bit
manipulation that will occur as part of the RADIO API
call “initialize()”.
TCR7[7:0] User Pins Control
TCR7[7:0] should be set to 02h.
TCR7 controls several functions. 
TCR7[7] controls the CTS function of the USER1 pin.
The CTS function is not used for the HARRIS PRISM
PC CARD application, and, therefore, TCR7[7] must be
reset to a 0 in order to disable the function.
TCR7[6] controls the function of the USER6 pin when
the Am79C930 device is operating in ISA PnP mode.
PC CARD mode is used for the HARRIS PRISM PC
CARD application and, therefore, TCR7[6] must be re-
set to a 0.
TCR7[5] controls the function of the USER5 pin when
the Am79C930 device is operating in ISA PnP mode.
PC CARD mode is used for the HARRIS PRISM PC
CARD application and, therefore, TCR7[5] must be re-
set to a 0.
TCR7[4:3] controls the active edge for generation of
interrupts from the USER1/INT188 input to the 80188
core. The USER1 INT188 function is not used for the
HARRIS PRISM PC CARD application and, therefore,
TCR7[4:3] must be reset to ZERO-ZERO binary.
TCR7[2] affects the output value at the TXCMD pin. The
TXCMD function is not used for the HARRIS PRISM PC
CARD application and, therefore, TCR7[2] must be re-
set to a 0.
TCR7[1] affects the output value at the ANTSLT pin. For
the HARRIS PRISM PC CARD application, the ANTSLT
output value will be controlled by the RADIO API call
“initialize().” The initial value for TCR7[1] must be a 1,
since this signal will control the characteristics of a tun-
able filter on the HARRIS PRISM PC CARD.
TCR7[0] affects the output value at the TXDATA pin. The
TXDATA function is not used for the HARRIS PRISM PC
CARD application and, therefore, TCR7[0] must be re-
set to a 0.
TCR8[7:0] Start Delimiter LSB
TCR8[7:0] can be set to any value for IEEE 802.11 pro-
tocol operation, since the start delimiter for the 802.11
DS PHY is only two bytes in length.
TCR8[7:0] is used to match the third arriving byte of the
Start of Frame Delimiter (Unique Word) in incoming and
outgoing frames. This information is used to determine
USER4 (LE)
SDCLK (SCLK)
SDDATA (SD)
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