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Application Note：
Assembly And Maintenance
Manual for Telink BLE 1x6
Test System 3.2
AN-18071200-E1
Brief：
This document is the assembly and maintenance guide
for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2, and presents DUT
examples with flash or OTP.
Ver 1.0.0
2018/7/12

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  • Page 1 Application Note： Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 AN-18071200-E1 Ver 1.0.0 2018/7/12 Brief： This document is the assembly and maintenance guide for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2, and presents DUT examples with flash or OTP.
  • Page 2 Telink Semiconductor does not assume any liability arising out of the application or use of any product or circuit described herein; neither does it convey any license...
  • Page 3 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Revision History Major Changes Date Author Version 1.0.0 Initial release 2018/7 LWH, LX, Cynthia AN-18071200-E1 Ver 1.0.0...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Table of contents Overall Architecture Of 1x6 Test System 3.2 ............5 Hardware Platform Building ................. 10 Check External Antenna ................. 10 Hardware assembly ..................11 Cable connection ................... 13 2.3.1...
  • Page 5 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Table of figures Figure 1 Top view of Main board ................. 5 Figure 2 EVK daughter board ................6 Figure 3 Power board ..................6 Figure 4 Display board ..................7 Figure 5 Thimble board ..................

  • Page 6: Overall Architecture Of 1X6 Test System 3.2

    (Device Under Test), and connect cables according to the guide in this document. A set of Test Bench mainly contains the following hardware resources. 1) A Main Board provided by Telink. Figure 1 shows the correct direction to place the Main board.

  • Page 7: Figure 2 Evk Daughter Board

    Figure 3 Power board 4) A Display board provided by Telink. Its top side contains six groups of LEDs and six independent start buttons, while the bottom side contains six connectors. a) Top view AN-18071200-E1 Ver 1.0.0...

  • Page 8: Figure 4 Display Board

    Main board can be connected with a DUT via a thimble board. Figure 5 shows an example of thimble board. Figure 5 Thimble board 6) Six PCB Antenna boards and six RF cables provided by Telink, as shown in Figure Figure 6 PCB antenna board and RF cable AN-18071200-E1...

  • Page 9: Figure 7 Buzzer Module

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 7) A USB hub and six customized USB cables: The USB hub is used to connect six EVK daughter boards and PC. 8) A PC. On PC side, the EvkMonitor tool can be used to burn firmware for EVK daughter boards (refer to Section 3), and user can also observe test result via the EvkMonitor (refer to Section 4).

  • Page 10: Figure 8 System Connection Chart

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Figure below shows the system connection chart. Figure 8 System connection chart AN-18071200-E1 Ver 1.0.0...

  • Page 11: Hardware Platform Building

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 2 Hardware Platform Building 2.1 Check External Antenna Telink test bench adopts external antennas for RF test. Customer needs to check the consistency of antennas. Figure 9 shows the PCB antenna supplied by Telink. Figure 9...

  • Page 12: Hardware Assembly

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 2.2 Hardware assembly Connect six EVK daughter boards (EVK0~EVK5) and Power board with corresponding connector location on the bottom side of the Main board, as shown in Figure 13.

  • Page 13: Figure 13 Assembly Chart On The Bottom Side Of Main Board

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 EVK2 EVK0 Power board EVK4 Main board EVK3 EVK1 EVK5 Figure 13 Assembly chart on the bottom side of Main board Note that USB interfaces of the EVK daughter boards, as well as power interface of the Power board should be placed towards the outside direction of the Main board.

  • Page 14: Cable Connection

    B from top to bottom. Connector A and B are featured with dual rows, 2.54mm spacing and 2x12pin. Telink adopts a HDMI cable to connect a thimble board with HDMI connector on corresponding test site of the Main board, and adopts a gray flat cable to connect a Display board with corresponding connector B of the Main board.

  • Page 15: Test Sites On Display Board

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 2.3.2 Test sites on Display board As shown in Figure 15, the bottom side of the Display board contains six independent test sites (marked as Site5~Site0 from left to right).

  • Page 16: Cable Connection Between Main Board And Dut Thimble

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 2.3.3 Cable connection between Main board and DUT thimble Telink provides six HDMI cables. HDMI connector on each test site of the Main board should be connected with a thimble board‘s HDMI connector via a HDMI cable.

  • Page 17: Cable Connection Between Buzzer Board And Thimble Board

    Each thimble board (connection points: P48, 3V3D, GND) should be connected with corresponding Buzzer board (connection points: VCC, 3V3B, GND) via a 3P rainbow cable. (Rainbow cable is supplied by Telink, and user can cut it as needed.) Figure 17 shows cable connection chart.

  • Page 18: Other Cable Connection

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 DUT thimble BAT- BAT+ STP cables HDMI Cable Wakeup IO Thimble board Rainbow Cable Buzzer Main board PCB Antenna RF Cable Display bottom Gray flat Cable Figure 17 Cable connection chart 2.3.7 Other cable connection...

  • Page 19: Figure 18 1X6 Test System 3.2

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Figure 18 1x6 Test system 3.2 Connect HDMI connector with HDMI cable Connect USB hub with PC USB Connect flange plate with RF cable Connect connector B with Main Board...

  • Page 20: Figure 20 Cable Connection Of Display, Antenna, Thimble Board And Dut

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Connect Display board with gray flat cable Connect PCB Antenna with RF cable Connect Thimble board with DUT thimble via STP cables Connect Thimble board with Buzzer board via rainbow cable...

  • Page 21: Check Jig Debugging

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 2.4 Check Jig debugging Keeping test consistency is critical for multiple sets of 1x6Jig. During debugging, it’s needed to select several good products and several rejected products, then test them on each Site of each Jig;...
  • Page 22 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Site NO Board NO Channel TX Test Offset RX Test IEEE Address 2492 100/-25 100/-54 2392 100/-25 100/-54 2nd ok 0x8a301f19 2492 100/-26 100/-54 2392 100/-32 star 2495 2392...

  • Page 23: Firmware Burning For Evk Daughter Boards

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 3 Firmware Burning For EVK Daughter Boards 3.1 Folder structure for Test Bench Firmware Telink test bench firmware folder is generally named as “BLE_System_V3.2_xxx”. The structure of the “BLE_System_V3.2_xxx” folder is shown as below: “DB”: This folder contains db files.
  • Page 24 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Double click “TLSR8266F512ET32_1x6Jig1_2in1” to open the following interface.  test.tls: Jig test script to determine PCBA test items.  product.ini: EVK product information to determine PCBA RF test frequency point and ID.
  • Page 25 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 3) conti_test_uart.bat: Double click the file, a uart window will pop up; data won’t be available on the window, but only saved in “log.txt” under this directory for convenience of analysis.

  • Page 26: Firmware Burning For Evk Daughter Boards

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 3.2 Firmware burning for EVK daughter boards Generally multiple sets of 1X6 Jig are used in factory. Note that each Site of each Jig should be burned with firmware before it’s ready for use.

  • Page 27: Figure 22 Firmware Burning Interface 1 For Evk Daughter Board

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Figure 22 Firmware burning interface 1 for EVK daughter board First click the “Select Project Folder” button and select the target project folder (i.e. the project under “platform”) in the pop-out window. The selected project path will be available in the box next to the “Select Project Folder”...
  • Page 28 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 During first time of firmware burning, it’s needed to configure product information (product.ini) for EVK daughter board. Tick the “USB Id” box. Set “Evk number” as Site number, e.g. “0” for Site0 (EVK0).

  • Page 29: Observe Test Result Via Pc Software Evkmonitor

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 4 Observe Test Result Via PC Software EvkMonitor Double click the “Monitor” folder under “BLE_System_V3.2_xxx\Script”. Double click the “EvkMonitor.exe” to open the software interface. If a prompt information of “NO usb device” pops up as shown below, it indicates communication problem such as USB cable connection with EVK, hub and PC;...
  • Page 30 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2  show log: Tick the “show log” box (as shown in mark 1 of Figure 24) to enable the “log window” to display dynamic information.  log window: As shown in mark 2 of Figure 24, it’s the area to display dynamic information.
  • Page 31 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2  status: As shown in mark 7 of Figure 24, it serves to display running state of each Site. The figure above indicates the state of “Ongoing”. The figure above indicates the state of “Success”.

  • Page 32: Update Pcba (Dut) Firmware

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 5 Update PCBA (DUT) Firmware In this section, Jig2 Site0 is taken as an example to introduce how to update PCBA firmware when needed. Connect Jig2 Site0 (i.e. EVK0) with PC via an USB cable.
  • Page 33 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 1. Tick the box in front of “Burning file”. Then click the “Burning file” button and select the target bin file (no limitation to the file name) in the pop-out window.
  • Page 34 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 After the firmware for Jig2 Site0 is successfully updated, power cycle the EVK daughter board, then it’s ready for use. Similarly firmware can be updated for each Site of Jig2, as well as each Site of other Jigs.

  • Page 35: Appendix 1 Test Item List On Pc Software "Evkmonitor

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Appendix 1 Test Item List On PC Software “EvkMonitor” Actual test items are determined by concrete test plan. Herein two examples are given. 1) Example 1: DUT is Remote Control board with flash, IR and audio input.
  • Page 36 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Maintenance Index Name Description Parameter Suggestion rx low frequency counting value/power/current test: RxLoCnt cnt num receives packets transmitted by EVK at low frequency point, and thus to RxLoPower rf energy test DUT Rx performance at low frequency point.
  • Page 37 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Maintenance Index Name Description Parameter Suggestion IR current test: current Make DUT enter IR state via IRCur current value problem. Check IR EVK and test the current at IR circuit.
  • Page 38 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 2) Example 2: DUT is MKD (Mouse, Keyboard, Dongle) set with OTP. Maintenance Index Name Description Parameter Suggestion current protection: CurProtection current value test DUT current Maybe soldering show the two pins if problem.
  • Page 39 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Maintenance Index Name Description Parameter Suggestion rx low frequency counting value/power/current test: RxLoCnt cnt num receives packets transmitted by EVK at low frequency point, and thus to RxLoPower rf energy test DUT Rx performance at low frequency point.
  • Page 40 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Maintenance Index Name Description Parameter Suggestion WriteFW write bin file into DUT OTP write ID information into WriteID DUT OTP Write specific configuration WriteConfigPara information into DUT OTP Check the contents of DUT...

  • Page 41: Appendix 2：Hardware List

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Appendix 2：Hardware List Note Type Number Spec Main board C1T42A19_V1.4 BLE EVK daughter board C1T42A20_V3.3 Power board C1T42A36_V2.0 Assembled on the Flange plate MA-SMA-KKF 2-head flange Main board Screw PM2.5X8 screw...

  • Page 42: Appendix 3：Pins On Test Site Of Main Board

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Appendix 3：Pins on test site of Main board 3V3DUT PIN05 PIN02 PIN56 PIN55 PIN54 PIN53 PIN52 PIN50 PIN51 PIN49 PIN48 PIN46 PIN45 PIN27 PIN26 Red-LED Green-LED Yellow-LED White-LED PIN29...
  • Page 43 Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 *Notes: 1) In Figure 25, NC indicates no connection. 2) Test pins on connector A should be connected by using STP (Shielded Twisted Pair) cables. AN-18071200-E1 Ver 1.0.0...

  • Page 44: Appendix 4：Dimension Chart Of Main Board, Thimble Board, Display Board, Evk Daughter Board And Buzzer Board

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Appendix 4：Dimension chart of Main board, Thimble board, Display board, EVK daughter board and Buzzer board Figure 26 Dimension chart of Main board Figure 27 Dimension chart of Thimble board AN-18071200-E1 Ver 1.0.0...

  • Page 45: Figure 28 Dimension Chart Of Display Board

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Figure 28 Dimension chart of Display board Figure 29 Dimension chart of EVK daughter board AN-18071200-E1 Ver 1.0.0...

  • Page 46: Figure 30 Dimension Chart Of Buzzer Board

    Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2 Figure 30 Dimension chart of Buzzer board AN-18071200-E1 Ver 1.0.0...

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