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Hardware Development Guide of
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ZM8620_V2
Version 2.3, 2014-04-15

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  • Page 1 Welink Your Smart Hardware Development Guide of Module Product ZM8620_V2 Version 2.3, 2014-04-15...

  • Page 2: Legal Information

    Legal Information By receiving the document from Shenzhen ZTEWelink Technology Co., Ltd (shortly referred to as ZTEWelink), you are deemed to have agreed to the following terms. If you don‘t agree to the following terms, please stop using the document.
  • Page 3 ZM8620_V2 错误！未找到 用源。 Hardware Development Guide of Module Product Applicability Table Product ZM8620_V2EUD ZM8620_V2LAT All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 4 28. Modify LTE TDD in Technical Standard to DL 50Mbps / UL 25Mbps (10MHz) in Table 2-1 29. Modify the RxDiv Band in Table 2-1 30. Add the power consumption in the mode of UMTS/LTE in All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 5 6. Update the Overview of Major Technical Parameters in Table 2–2 Note: Because of ZTEWelink ZM8620_V2 module is still under revision to improve its performances, the present document could be subject to revisions without notice. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 6 Note: Consult our website for up-to-date product descriptions, documentation, application notes, firmware upgrades, troubleshooting tips, and press releases Besides, ZTEWelink provides various technical support ways to the customers, such as support by phone, website, instant messaging, E-mail and on-site. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    Power Level of IO Interface ...................... 18 Power Interface ........................... 19 4.3.1 Description of Power PINs ....................... 19 4.3.2 Requirement of Power Supply ....................19 (U)SIM Card Interface ......................... 19 4.4.1 Description of PINs ........................19 All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 8 Technical Specification for UMTS Mode Radio Frequency ..............34 7.1.1 Maximum Transmission Power....................34 7.1.2 Receiving Sensitivity ........................ 34 7.1.3 Spurious Specification ......................35 Technical Specification of GSM Mode Radio Frequency ................. 35 All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 9 9.2.4 USIM Card Console Interface ....................46 9.2.5 PON_RESET_N Button ......................46 9.2.6 W_DISABLE_N Button ......................46 9.2.7 LED Indicator..........................46 PACKAGE SYSTEM ..........................47 SAFETY INFORMATION ........................48 All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink VIII...
  • Page 10 Figure 8–2 Recommended PCB layout ........................42 Figure 9–1 The diagram for the switching board ..................... 44 Figure 9–2 Debugging Board ..........................45 Figure 10–1 Package process of ZM8620_V2 modules ..................47 All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 11 Table 7–7 Maximum Transmission Power ....................... 36 Table 7–8 Receiving Sensitivity Reference Table ....................37 Table 7–9 General Requirement of Receiver Spurious Emission ................38 Table 7–10 UE Co-existence Spurious Emission Requirement ................38 All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 12: About This Document

    M2M applications including Wireless POS, mobile terminal products such as Tablet, Notepad etc. Supported & Reference Document List Besides this hardware development document, ZTEWelink also provides the software development guide. Table 1-1 is the list of supported documents. Table 1–1 List for Supported& Related Documents Document Name ZTEWelink Software Development Guide of LTE Module Products-V2.3.pdf...

  • Page 13: Abbreviations

    Printed Circuit Board Subscriber Identification Module Short Message Service Serial Peripheral Interface UART Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System Universal Serial Bus WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multi Access All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 14: Product Overview

    Quadband  NOTE: In the Table 2-1 ―√‖ means theband is supported by module ZM8620_V2, while ―--‖ means not supported The Figure 2-1 below shows the product material object picture. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 15: Product Technical Parameter

    3V SIM card and 1.8V SIM card Memory(SDRAM/ 128MByte & 256MByte NAND) MICRO SD Card No memory card support USB Version USB 2.0 HIGH SPEED Baseband UART Interface Reset/Power_on/Po wer_off interface SPI Interface Maximum power All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 16 UMTS1900/850: ≤-104.7 dBm UMTS900: ≤-103.7 dBm LTE 2600/1900: ≤-92dBm(20 MHz) Receiving LTE 2100/1700: ≤-94dBm(20 MHz) sensitivity LTE 900/700: ≤-94dBm(10 MHz) LTE 850: ≤-95dBm(10 MHz) LTE Band 38: ≤-94dBm(20 MHz) GSM850/900/1800/1900: ≤-102dBm All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 17 -10 to 60 ° C Temperature Environment Storage -40 to 85 ° C Temperature Humidity 5%~ 95% DATA NDIS Application Yes, not support embedded MMS stack TCP/IP USSD Yes (Phase I &Phase II) Phonebook All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 18: Function Overview

    The radio frequency function of ZM8620_V2 can be viewed from the aspect of over-the-air wireless bearer network, frequency band, whether receive diversity feature is supported. (a) Support LTE FDD, LTE TDD, UMTS; All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 19: Table 2-3 Product Operating Frequency Band

    1920 MHz — 1980 MHz 2110 MHz — 2170 MHz LTE-FDD Band1 2500 MHz — 2570MHz 2620 MHz — 2690MHz LTE-FDD Band7 2570 MHz — 2620MHz 2570 MHz — 2620MHz LTE-TDD Band38 All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 20: Mechanic Feature

    Full-Mini- Half-Mini- Dual-Use Dual Head-to-Head Only Socket Only Socket Socket Socket Card Type Connector Connector Connector Connector Connector Full-Mini Full-Mini with bottom-side keep outs Half-Mini Half-Mini with bottom-side keep outs All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 21 ZM8620_V2 错误！未找到 用源。 Hardware Development Guide of Module Product All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 22: Antenna Interface

    ECT818000071(ECT) at present as shown in Figure 3-3.  NOTE: The radio frequency bases adopted by the antenna interface of ZM8620_V2 module is U.FL-R-SMT-1(80)(HRS)/ECT818000071(ECT) at present instead of adopting 20429-001E MHF-A13 of I-PEX by ZM8620 before. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 23: Thermal Design

    In order to ensure product performance, safety and stability, the following proposals are provided for the main board design: the module far away from the switch power and high-speed signal cable as much as All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 24 Well protect the wiring of the interference sources. located close the interference sources. the module close to devices with large heat dissipation, such as CPU, south bridge, etc. The high temperature will affect the RF performance. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 25: Pin Description

    PIN internal pull-up PIN internal pull-down 4.1.2 PIN Configuration Diagram The PIN sequence of interfaces on the module is following the mini-PCIE interface and defined as shown in Figure 4-2. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 26: Pin Description

    LED_WLAN* RESERVED SLIC_INT RESERVED3 LED_WPAN* SLIC_RESET RESERVED 1V5[2] RESERVED2 RESERVED RESERVED1 GND[13] VDD _3V3 RESERVED 3V3VAUX[4] RESERVED0 Figure 4–2 PIN Configuration Diagram 4.1.3 PIN Description Table 4–2 PIN Interface Definition All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 27 UART1_CTS UART port, clear to send 1.8V 3.1V-3.6V，The +3.3Vaux VDD_3V3 3.3V supply typical value is 3.3V UART port, preparing to PERp0 UART1_RFR 1.8V receive Ground Ground pin Ground Ground pin All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 28 LED_WPAN# SLIC_INT adaptation Reserved Reserved exclusive use for routing +1.5V SLIC_RESET adaptation Reserved Reserved Ground Ground pin Reserved Reserved 3.1V-3.6V，The +3.3Vaux VDD_3V3 3.3V supply typical value is 3.3V All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 29: Feature Of Interface Power Level

    The voltage design of external circuit interfaces should match that of the ZM8620_V2 PINs. In the Table 4-2, the Power supply of ZM8620_V2 has been updated between 3.1V-3.6V, and the typical value is 3.3V at present. While in ZM8620 module, the Power supply is 3.4-4.2V, and typical is 3.8V before.

  • Page 30: Power Interface

    ZM8620_V2 module baseband processor integrates the (U)SIM card interface. The signals on SIM card interface is as shown in Figure 4-3. VREG_UIM VREG_UIM Figure 4–3 (U)SIM Card Signal Connection Circuit All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 31: Electric Feature

    (USB_DM), PIN38 (USB_DP). The USB interface can be mapped to difference ports, such as Diagnostics port to capture the log, AT port is used to complete AT command interaction with the AP side. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 32: Electric Feature

    Table 4–5 Definition of UART Signal Signal Name Description Level UART1_RX UART port RX receive data Power level is 3.3V. UART1_TX UART port TX transmit data Power level is 3.3V. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 33: Electric Feature

    8-byte serial bus interface, SP3238 or MAX3238 is recommended. The connection mode is as shown in Figure 4-5. ZM8620_V2 Figure 4–4 Module Serial Port & AP Application Processor All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 34: Spi Interface

    ZM8620_V2, high power level is VOH, and low power level is VOL.  NOTE: VIH, VIL, VOH, and VOL comply with the power I/O interface power level requirements in 4.2.1. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 35: Reset Signal Perst

    Figure 4-7 illustrates the reference connection circuit of WAKE# signal. The WAKE# signal (PIN No.: 1) is an output signal, active low level or low fall edge. This signal is a reserved signal for ZM8620 wake up the system host. ZM8620 pulls up the power level to VDD_3V3 internally by the 10Kohm resistance.

  • Page 36: W_Disable_N Signal

    ZM8620_V2 Status ‗1‘ RF is enabled. ‗0‘ RF is disabled. The W_DISABLE_N signal is pulled up by the 150Kohm resistance to 3.3V inside ZM8620 , so the system side does not pull up this circuit any more.  NOTE: Do not directly connect this signal to the positive end of power supply.

  • Page 37: Recommended Upgrade Methods

    It‘s recommended to use the one-click software upgrade tool to upgrade through the USB port provided by ZTEWelink in the Windows system. If the customers want to upgrade the module in other operation systems, ZTEWelink provides the corresponding reliable tools too.

  • Page 38: Electric Feature

    Take the actual situation as the reference. Table 5–3 DC power consumption in UMTS mode Power Consumption of R99 BAND BAND1 BAND2 BAND5 BAND8 Power Consumption Maximum Transmit power (Unit: mA) (23.32dBm) All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 39: Power-On/Resetting Flow

    Under different environments and conditions (for example: under different band channel, transmit power, power level etc.), the testing values of Table 5-3 and Table 5-4 might be slightly different. Take the actual situation as the reference. Power-on/Resetting Flow Table 5–5 Power-on/Resetting Period All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 40: Resetting Flow

    The failing edge of PERST# reset signal initiates a reset process. The module is reset by driving this pin with a low pulse. PERST# signal 100ms Resetting at the edge of rising Figure 5–1 Module Reset Flow All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 41: Related Test & Testing Standard

    IEC standard, including the equipment running under high/low temperature, storage under high/low temperature, temperature shock and EMC. Table 6-1 is the list of testing standard, which includes the related testing standards for ZM8620 Table 6–1 Testing Standard...

  • Page 42: Reliability Testing Environment

    Reliability Testing Environment The reliability test includes the vibration test, high/low-temperature running, high/low-temperature storage and temperature shock experiment test. Refer to Table 6-4 for the specific parameters. Table 6–4 Reliability Feature All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 43: Reliability Test Result

    Table 6–5 Temperature Testing Result under Windless Environment Mode Ambient Voltage Transmission Duration Results Temperature power ≥1 hour GPRS Class 10 +25° C 3.3V Pass ≥1 hour EDGE Class 12 +25° C 3.3V Pass All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 44: Table 6-6 Test Results Of High/Low Temperature Running And Reliability Test

    Storage at low Refer to Table 6-4 RF test and function test Pass temperature Storage at high Refer to Table 6-4 RF test and function test Pass temperature All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 45: Rf Specifications

    NOTE 2: For Power class 4 this shall be at the maximum output power Ⅲ Ⅸ NOTE 3: For the UE which supports both Band and Band operating frequencies, the reference sensitivity level of -114.5 dBm DPCH_Ec<REFSENS> shall apply for Band Ⅸ. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 46: Spurious Specification

    Table 7–5 Maximum Transmission Power Operating Power Power Maximum Tolerance Test band control level class output power value Value Ⅱ Class 2 30dBm ± 2dBm Ⅲ Class 2 30dBm ± 2dBm All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 47: Receiving Sensitivity

    95% of the maximum throughput, it meets Table 7-8 requirement. The test values are the average of some test samples. Under different environments, the All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 48: Table 7-8 Receiving Sensitivity Reference Table

    -102.2 -99.2 -100 -95.2 -100 -95.2 -91.2 -100 -95.2 … -100 -95.2 -100 -95.2 -106.2 -102.2 -100 -95.2 -106.2 -102.2 -100 -95.2 -100 -95.2 -100 -95.2 -100 -95.2 -100 -95.2 All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 49: Spurious Specification

    Note ,Note Frequency range 1884.5-1915.7 Note , Note E-UTRA band 33 1900-1920 Note E-UTRA band 39 1880-1920 Note E-UTRA Band 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17 FDL_low- FDL_high All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 50 0.00625 E-UTRA Band 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17 FDL_low- FDL_high Frequency range 763-775 0.00625 E-UTRA Band 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17 FDL_low FDL_high … All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 51 Applicable when NS_05 in section 6.6.3.3.1 in the protocol of 3GPP TS 36.101 is signaled by the network. Applicable when co-existence with PHS system working in. 1884.5-1919.6MHz. Applicable when co-existence with PHS system working in 1884.5-1915.7MHz. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 52: Antenna

    The main and diversity antenna is the product U.FL-R-SMT-1(80)(HRS)/ ECT818000071(ECT). The Profile Dimensions is shown in Figure 8-1. If more technical parameter for the main antenna connector is needed, please contact with ZTEWelink. Figure 8–1 the Profile Dimensions All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 53: Proposal On Layout Of Product In Terminal Product

    Keep the module away from the devices that have a large heat-radiating capacity such as CPU, hard disk and south bridge, to guarantee that heat can be radiated effectively. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 54: Antenna Dimensions And Location

    3dB. The isolation of the main antenna and the diversity antenna is required to be bigger than 12dB. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 55: Debugging Environment And Method

    UI by inserting the USIM card into the switching board. The USB interface supplies power to the debugging board, provides it to the module after LDO conversion, and directly supplies the power to the module by the power socket on the board. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 56: Interfaces On Debugging Board

    ZM8620 9.2.2 USB Interface The USB2.0 interface on the debugging board is connected to the PCI-E interface on ZM8620 9.2.3 Power-supply Interface The USB interface as illustrated in Figure 9-2 supplies power, provides the 3.3V power to the module after LDO conversion, and directly supplies the 3.3V power to the module by the power socket on the...

  • Page 57: Usim Card Console Interface

    LED Indicator The LED indicator on the debugging board is connected to the LED_WWAN_N interface of ZM8620 . By controlling the indicator, the user can debug the function of this interface. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 58: Package System

    The package process of ZM8620_V2 modules is shown as the Figure below. The unit of dimensions is mm. Figure 10–1 Package process of ZM8620_V2 modules Cardboard box ×10 trays All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...

  • Page 59: Safety Information

    It‘s the responsibility of users to enforce other country regulations and the specific environment regulations. And ZTEWelink does not take on any liability for customer failure to comply with these precautions. All Rights reserved, No Spreading abroad without Permission of ZTEWelink...
  • Page 60 The final end product must be labeled in a visible are with the following Contains TX ” FCC ID:SRQ-ZM8620 .The FCC part 15.19 statement below has to also be available on the label:This device complies with Part 15 of FCC rules.Operation is subject to the foll...

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