CentSDR Construction Guide

ver 0.2 2018/7/6 ©2017-2018 @edy555 ttrftech.tumblr.com

What is this?
CentSDR is a standalone single board SDR receiver.
Specification
Size 51.5mm x 87.3mm
Frequency 0.1 뺶 70MHz
LCD 320x240 pixels
Power 5V 200mA
Modulation CW/LSB/USB/AM/WFM(stereo)
Sampling Rate 48kHz, 192kHz
USB CDC Support

Blockdiagram

PCB Layout
PCB Photograph

BOM
Parts Qty Value Top Mark
C1, C2, C10, C11, C12, C13, C14
C15, C16, C22, C23, C24, C25, C30 14 100nF
C7, C8, C9, C17, C18, C31, C32, C33, C34 9 1µF
C19, C20, C21 3 47µF
C3, C4, C5, C6 4 3.3nF
R1, R2, R3, R4 4 470Ω 471
R10 1 1.5kΩ 152
R11, R12 2 3.3kΩ 332
R20 1 22Ω 220
R7, R13, R14 3 10kΩ 103
R8, R9, R15 3 1kΩ 102
FB1, FB2 2 FB
D1 1 LED
D3 1 BAV99 A7W
D4 1 B5819WS S4
U9 1 XC6206P33MR 662K
U1 1 TS5A23157DGS 26T1
U2 1 74LVC74APW LVC74A
U3 1 VCTCXO 26MHz P26.0
U4 1 TLV320AIC3204 AIC3204
U5 1 STM32F303CBT6
U7 1 SI5351A-GT 5351
U8 1 BGA2817 LSt
X1 1 SMA Female
X2 1 USB-microB
J1 1 3.5mm 4P-Audio
SW1 1 SPDT Slide Switch
No Use: R5, R6, R15, R16, R21, R23, C28, C29, D2, Q1, U6, X3, X4, X8

Following parts are no included in kit. You should prepare equivalents.

M1: 2.2" inch TFT LCD Display SPI ILI9341 240x320 for 51/AVR/STM32/ARM/PIC Arduino
ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm//191816725599
M2: Rotaly Encoder: Akizuki Denshi P-05771 http://akizukidenshi.com/catalog/g/gP-05771/
Pin Socket(9P): Akizuki Denshi C-05779 http://akizukidenshi.com/catalog/g/gC-05779/
Tools
Soldering Iron, Flux, (Hot Air Solder)
Circuit Tester, Oscillo Scope
USB micro-B cables
Antenna
Nucleo or ST-Link/v2 Flash Adapter

Construction Steps
Following steps is recommended.

1. USB and power circuit

2. VCTCXO
3. MCU and CODEC
4. Flash Firmware
5. 74LVC74 and TS5A23157DGS
6. RF Amplifier
7. Rotaly Encoder
8. SMA Connector

(1) USB and Power circuits: USB Connector, SW1, D4, U9 and capacitors around them. Plug USB power
source, check 3.3V output.
(2) VCTCXO: Solder U7 VCTCXO, check orientation with Photo1. Using oscillo scope, check 26MHz
0.8Vp-p output of VCTCXO.
(3) Solder MCU U5, Si5351A U7, CODEC U4 and C,R around MCU. Check green cathode mark of
backside of LED chip and orient it to GND.
On this step, flashing firmware MCU should work. Using ST-Link2 or Nucleo, flash firmware and check
USB serial work. And also check LED blinks 5ms cycle with oscilloscope.
(4) Install U2 74VLC74, U1 TS5A23157 and C&Rs of LPF.
(5) Install U8 BGA2817 and C&Rs, BAV99 D3 and SMA connector.
 Photo1

Flashing Firmware
1) Download firmware from github.
Download zip file from https://github.com/ttrftech/CentSDR/releases and unzip it. Select v0.7 or later for
rev1 board.
2) Flash firmware using Nucleo Mass Storage Device
Prepare Nucleo and detach jumper pin at CN2, then connect between CN4 and CentSDR ST-Link2
Connector with jumper cable (requires 3 wires; 2:TCK, 3:GND, 4:TMS). Powering CentSDR and attach
USB of Nucleo to PC, removable drive will be appeared. Then, drag ch.bin file and drop into removable
drive(Fig 1). That’s it.
If fail.txt file be shown in the drive, flashing firmware is failed. Check and flash again.

Fig 1
Photo 4 Photo 5

Operation
Push: Mode change(↓)
Rotate: Value change(⇄)
Long Push: Store current configuration
Rotate with pressed: Mode change(⇅)

Channel(00-99)
Frequency
±10MHz
±1MHz
±100kHz
±10kHz
±1kHz
±100Hz
±10Hz
±1Hz
 Audio Volume
-∞ ~ 29dB (1dB step)
Modulation
LSB, USB, AM, WFM(Mono), WFM(Stereo)
AGC
OFF, Slow, Mid, Fast
RF Gain
-12.5dB ~ 67.5dB (0.5dB step)
Spectrum View
Waterfall / Waveform

Adjustment
1) VCTCXO fine tuning
use dac command to adjust reference frequency.
Fix
If fail to boot frequentlly, connect R14 and R7 with jumper wire to make CODEC hardware reset on boot.
(see PCB photo)
References
STM32F303CBT6
http://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/stm32f303cb.pdf
http://www.st.com/resource/ja/reference_manual/dm00043574.pdf
TLV320AIC3204
http://m.ti.com/product/jp/tlv320aic3204
http://www.tij.co.jp/jp/lit/an/slaa404c/slaa404c.pdf
http://www.ti.com/lit/ml/slaa557/slaa557.pdf (チップレジスタ設定)
Si5351A
https://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/Si5351-B.pdf
https://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/AN619.pdf
LCD ILI9341
https://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/ILI9341.pdf

Web/Forum
http://ttrftech.tumblr.com/kit/centsdr/
https://github.com/ttrftech/centsdr/

Happy RF Hacking!