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pkg/uwb-dw1000: fix default group delay, use OTP values when possible #18000

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This PR fixed the default values for the transmitter calibration block group delay. It seems that when I ported this I set the default group delay to the wrong value of 5 or (DW1000_CHANNEL_DEFAULT), when the actual correct value for the default channel 5 is 0xC0. This fixes it.

Furthermore, by playing with the default firmware decawave provides its boards with there is also calibrated TX_POWER and PG_DELAY values stored in the OTP memory (at least for channel 5). These values are calibrated to account for fabrication process variation in antenna gains among others and therefore be sure that the output TX power is according to regulations, so use them when they are available.

A couple of cleanups are piggy-packed int his PR, mainly to reduce CI builds.

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Bench results of twr_aloha against master, a notable improvement should be visible, running on IoT-LAB and evaluating the mean error over 14nodes I get:

          count      mean       std       min       25%       50%       75%       max
method                                                                               
deca    18185.0  0.084623  0.091720  0.000000  0.027582  0.060342  0.112198  0.967802
master  18192.0  0.194518  0.146984  0.000015  0.111583  0.173077  0.246428  6.866262
pr      18161.0  0.113226  0.120171  0.000004  0.040586  0.082905  0.150210  1.110259

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Split from #17988

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Happy 18k everyone!!

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ACK.

Code changes look fine. Provided testing indicates big improvements.

@fjmolinas fjmolinas merged commit 1850f97 into RIOT-OS:master Apr 26, 2022
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Thanks!

@fjmolinas fjmolinas deleted the pr_uwb_dw1000_fix_group_delay branch April 26, 2022 06:18
@chrysn chrysn added this to the Release 2022.07 milestone Aug 25, 2022
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