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Smart Machine Smart Decision SIM7600NA,SIM7600NA miniPCIE_user manual Document Title 1.00 Version 2020-1-7 Date Released Status Document Control ID SIM7600NA,SIM7600NA miniPCIE_user manual _V1.00 General Notes SIMCom offers this information as a service to its users to support the application and engineering efforts that use the products designed by SIMCom.
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Ce matériel est complété par une exposition de rayonnements IC pour un environnement naturel. Ce matériel doit être installé et se faire avec une distance minimale de 20cm entre les radiateurs et les autresYour body shop. For a host manufacture’s using a certified modular, if (1) the module’s IC number is not visible when installed in the host, or (2) if the host is marketed so that end users do not have straightforward commonly used methods for access to remove the module so that the IC...
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Smart Machine Smart Decision antenna or transmitter. This modular must be installed and operated with a minimum distance of 20 cm between the radiator and user body. If the FCC identification number is not visible when the module is installed inside another device, then the outside of the device into which the module is installed must also display a label referring to the enclosed module.
Smart Machine Smart Decision Revision History Data Version Description of change Author Xutao.Jiang 2020-1-7 1.00 Original Qiang.Zhang SIM7600NA_user manual _V1.00 2020-1-7...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Introduction This document describes the electronic specifications, RF specifications, interfaces, mechanical characteristics and testing results of the SIMCom MODULE. With the help of this document and other software application notes/user guides, users can understand and use MODULE to design and develop applications quickly.
Smart Machine Smart Decision Hardware Block Diagram The block diagram of the MODULE is shown in the figure below. Figure 1: MODULE block diagram SIM7600NA_user manual _V1.00 2020-1-7...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Functional Overview Table 2: General features Feature Implementation Power supply Single supply voltage 3.4~4.2V, Recommend supply voltage 3.8V Power saving Current in sleep mode : <5mA Radio frequency bands Please refer to the table 1 Transmitting power LTE power class: 3 (0.25W) LTE CAT 1: 10 Mbps(DL) 5 Mbps(UL)
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Size:30*30*2.9m Physical characteristics Weight:5.7 g Normal operation temperature: -30°C to +80°C Temperature range Extended operation temperature: -40°C to +85°C* Storage temperature -45°C to +90°C *Note: Module is able to make and receive voice calls, data calls, SMS and make GPRS/UMTS/HSPA+/LTE traffic in -40℃...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Package Information Pin Assignment Overview All functions of the MODULE will be provided through 135 pads that will be connected to the users’ platform. The following Figure is a high-level view of the pin assignment of the MODULE. ●* USB_BOOT AUX_ANT...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Pin Description Table 4: IO parameters definition Pin type Description Power input Power output Analog input Analog input/output Bidirectional input /output Digital input Digital output Digital output with high level Digital output with low level Pull up Pull down Table 5: Pin description Default...
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Smart Machine Smart Decision 0,131,13 2,133,13 4135 System Control The high voltage is System power on/off control PWRKEY DI,PU input, active low. 0.8V; RESET has been System reset control input, pulled up to 1.8V RESET DI, PU active low. via 40Kohm resistor internally.
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Positive line of the differential, USB_DP AI, AO bi-directional USB signal. USB_ID High-speed USB ID input Keep it open. SGMII interface SGMII_RX_P SGMII receive – positive SGMII_RX_M SGMII receive - negative If unused, keep them open. SGMII_TX_M SGMII transmit - negative SGMII_TX_P...
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Smart Machine Smart Decision keep them open. SDIO_DATA0 SDIO data0 SDIO_DATA3 SDIO data3 SDIO_CLK SDIO clock HSIC interface If use, please refer HSIC_STROBE HSIC strobe wakeup document [27] Otherwise please HSIC_DATA HSIC data keep them open. PCM interface PCM_OUT DO,PD PCM data output.
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Default:COEX2 RFsynchronizing between Wi-Fi COEX2* Option: WoWWAN and LTE. ● Default:COEX3 RF synchronizing between COEX3 Option:BT_PCM_C ●* Wi-Fi and LTE. ● Default: BOOT_CFG0 ●* Option:COEX_RX Boot configuration input. ● Module will be forced into USB Do place 2 test BOOT_CFG0 DI,PD download mode by connect 85...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Mechanical Information The following figure shows the package outline drawing of MODULE. Figure 3: Dimensions (Unit: mm) SIM7600NA_user manual _V1.00 2020-1-7...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Interface Application Power Supply The power supply pins of MODULE include 4 pins (pin 62&63, pin 38&39) named VBAT. The 4 VBAT pads supply the power to RF and baseband circuits directly. On VBAT pads, the ripple current up to 2A typically, due to GSM/GPRS emission burst (every 4.615ms), may cause voltage drop.
Smart Machine Smart Decision 3.1.1 Power Supply Design Guide Make sure that the voltage on the VBAT pins will never drop below 3.4V, even during a transmit burst, when current consumption may rise up to 2A. If the voltage drops below 3.4V, the RF performance may be affected.
Smart Machine Smart Decision 3.1.2 Recommended Power Supply Circuit It is recommended that a switching mode power supply or a linear regulator power supply is used. It is important to make sure that all the components used in the power supply circuit can resist a peak current up to 2A.
Smart Machine Smart Decision Power on/Power off/Reset Function 3.2.1 Power on MODULE can be powered on by pulling the PWRKEY pin down to ground. The PWRKEY pin has been pulled up with a diode to 1.8V internally, so it does not need to be pulled up externally.
Smart Machine Smart Decision Table 8: Power on timing and electronic characteristic Symbol Parameter Min. Max. Unit The time of active low level impulse of PWRKEY pin to power on MODULE The time from power-on issue to STATUS pin output on(status) high level(indicating power up ready ) The time from power-on issue to UART port ready...
Smart Machine Smart Decision off-on PWRKEY ( Input ) STATUS ( Output ) off(status) off(uart) UART Port Active Undefined off(usb) Active Undefined USB Port Figure 11: Power off timing sequence Table 9: Power off timing and electronic characteristic Time value Symbol Parameter Unit...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Figure 12: Reference reset circuit Table 10: RESET pin electronic characteristic Symbol Description Min. Typ. Max. Unit The active low level time impulse on RESET pin to reset reset MODULE Input high level voltage 1.17 Input low level voltage -0.3 UART Interface MODULE provides a 7-wire UART (universal asynchronous serial transmission) interface as DCE...
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Figure 13: UART full modem Figure 14: UART null modem The MODULE UART is 1.8V voltage interface. If user’s UART application circuit is 3.3V voltage interface, the level shifter circuits should be used for voltage matching. The TXB0108RGYR provided by Texas Instruments is recommended.
Smart Machine Smart Decision Figure 16: level matching circuit To comply with RS-232-C protocol, the RS-232-C level shifter chip should be used to connect MODULE to the RS-232-C interface, for example SP3238ECA, etc. Note1: User needs to use high speed transistors such as MMBT3904. Note2: MODULE supports the following baud rates: 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200, 230400, 460800, 921600, 3200000, 3686400, 4000000bps.
Smart Machine Smart Decision Normally RI will be kept at a high level until a voice call, then it will output periodic rectangular wave with 5900ms low level and 100ms high level. It will output this kind of periodic rectangular wave until the call is answered or hung up.
Smart Machine Smart Decision Because of the high bit rate on USB bus, more attention should be paid to the influence of the junction capacitance of the ESD component on USB data lines. Typically, the capacitance should be less than 1pF. It is recommended to use an ESD protection component such as ESD9L5.0ST5G provided by On Semiconductor ( www.onsemi.com D3 is suggested to select the diode with anti-ESD and voltage surge function, or user could add a...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Full duplex rated to 1 Gbps Half/full duplex for 10/100 Mbps connected external Ethernet like AR8031/AR8033(industrial 10/100/1000Mbps), BCM89820(automotive 10/100Mbps) Uses 8B10B encoding of data with effective baud data rate of 1 Gbps, data rate is always 1.25 Gbps (or DDR clock is always at 625 MHz) Main features of MDIO: ...
Smart Machine Smart Decision 3.6.2 Reference schematic with BCM89820 Figure21: Reference SGMII circuit with BCM89820 Note: The module SGMII function default closed. If user need, please contact SIMCom for more details or refer to document [28] SIM7600NA_user manual _V1.00 2020-1-7...
Smart Machine Smart Decision USIM Interface MODULE supports both 1.8V and 3.0V USIM Cards. Table 12: USIM electronic characteristic in 1.8V mode (USIM_VDD=1.8V) Symbol Parameter Min. Typ. Max. Unit USIM_ LDO power output voltage 1.75 1.95 High-level input voltage 0.65*USIM_VDD USIM_VDD +0.3 Low-level input voltage -0.3...
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Figure 202: USIM interface reference circuit Note: USIM_DATA has been pulled up with a 10KΩ resistor to USIM_VDD in MODULE. A 100nF capacitor on USIM_VDD is used to reduce interference. For more details of AT commands about USIM, please refer to document [1].USIM_CLK is very important signal, the rise time and fall time of USIM_CLK should be less than 40ns, otherwise the USIM card might not be initialized correctly.
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Smart Machine Smart Decision SIM card circuit is susceptible, the interference may cause the SIM card failures or some other situations, so it is strongly recommended to follow these guidelines while designing: Make sure that the SIM card holder should be far away from the antenna while in PCB layout.
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Recommended USIM Card Holder It is recommended to use the 6-pin USIM socket such as C707 10M006 512 produced by Amphenol. User can visit http://www.amphenol.com for more information about the holder. Figure 224: Amphenol SIM card socket Table 14: Amphenol USIM socket pin description Signal Description...
Smart Machine Smart Decision PCM Interface MODULE provides a PCM interface for external codec, which can be used in master mode with short sync and 16 bits linear format. Table 15: PCM format Characteristics Specification Line Interface Format Linear(Fixed) Data length 16bits(Fixed) PCM Clock/Sync Source Master Mode(Fixed)
Smart Machine Smart Decision Figure 268: Audio codec reference circuit SD Interface MODULE provides a 4-bit SD/MMC/eMMC interface with clock rate up to 200 MHz When connected to a SD or MMC card, the voltage of SD interface is 1.8/2.85V, which is compatible with Secure Digital Physical Layer Specification version 3.0 and SDIO Card Specification version 3.0.It supports up to 128GB SD cards.
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Users should provide 2.85V to power SD card system and the current should more than 350mA, which is showed below as VCC_SD. ESD/EMI components should be arranged beside SD card socket. Refer to the following application circuit. Figure29: SD reference circuit Users should provide 2.85V to power eMMC card system and 1.8V to power the SDIO_DATA/CMD/CLK signals.
Smart Machine Smart Decision related datasheet of eMMC which is used. The listed current of 500mA and 300mA are just for your reference. SD/MMC/eMMC card layout guide lines: Protect SD card signals from noisy signals (clocks, SMPS, etc.). ● Up to 200 MHz clock rate, 50 Ω nominal, ±10% trace impedance ●...
Smart Machine Smart Decision 3.12 SPI Interface SIM7600NA provides a SPI interface as a master only. It provides a duplex, synchronous, serial communication link with peripheral devices. Its operation voltage is 1.8V, with clock rates up to 50 Note : For more details of the AT commands about the SPI, please refer to document [1].
Smart Machine Smart Decision 3.14 Flight Mode Control The FLIGHTMODE pin can be used to control MODULE to enter or exit the Flight mode. In Flight mode, the RF circuit is closed to prevent interference with other equipments and minimize current consumption.
Smart Machine Smart Decision ISINK is a ground-referenced current sink. The following figure shows its reference circuit. Figure34: ISINK reference circuit Note: The sinking current can be adjusted to meet the design requirement through the AT command “AT+ CLEDITST =<0>, <value>”.The “value” ranges from 0 to 8, on behalf of the current from 0mA to 40mA by 5mA step.
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Table 23: Electronic characteristic Symbol Description Min. Typ. Max. Unit Output voltage 2.85 3.05 VDD_AUX Output current : Note For more details of AT commands about VDD_AUX, please refer to document [1]. SIM7600NA_user manual _V1.00 2020-1-7...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Table 27: Conducted receive sensitivity Frequency Receive sensitivity(Typical) Receive sensitivity(MAX) LTE FDD/TDD See table 28. 3GPP Table 28: Reference sensitivity (QPSK) E-UTR 1.4 MHz 3 MHz 5 MHz 10 MHz 15 MHz 20 MHz Duplex A band Standard Standard Standard...
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Figure35: Antenna matching circuit (MAIN_ANT) In above figure, the components R1, C1, C2 and R2 are used for antenna matching, the values of components can only be achieved after the antenna tuning and usually provided by antenna vendor. By default, the R1, R2 are 0Ω...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Table 30: Recommended TVS Package Part Number Vender 0201 LXES03AAA1-154 Murata 0402 LXES15AAA1-153 Murata Note : SIMCom suggests the LTE auxiliary antenna to be kept on, since there are many high bands in the designing of LTE-TDD, such as band38, band40 and band41. Because of the high insert loss of the RF cable and layout lines, the receiver sensitivity of these bands above will have risk to meet the authentication without the diversity antenna.
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Figure 287: Active antenna circuit Figure 298: Passive antenna circuit (Default) In above figures, the components C1, L1 and L2 are used for antenna matching. Usually, the values of the components can only be achieved after antenna tuning and usually provided by antenna vendor.
Smart Machine Smart Decision Electrical Specifications Absolute maximum ratings Absolute maximum rating for digital and analog pins of MODULE are listed in the following table: Table 31: Absolute maximum ratings Parameter Min. Typ. Max. Unit Voltage at VBAT -0.5 Voltage at USB_VBUS -0.5 5.85 Voltage at digital pins...
Smart Machine Smart Decision *Note: These parameters are for digital interface pins, such as SPI, GPIOs (NETLIGHT, FLIGHTMODE, STATUS, USIM_DET, SD_DET), SDIO, I2C, UART, PCM, COEXn, and BOOT_CFG0. The operating temperature of MODULE is listed in the following table. Table 34: Operating temperature Parameter Min.
Smart Machine Smart Decision USB port are still accessible. The power consumption in this mode is lower than normal mode. AT command “AT+CFUN=4” or pulling down the FLIGHTMODE pin can be used to set the MODULE to flight mode without removing Flight mode the power supply.
Smart Machine Smart Decision Current Consumption The current consumption is listed in the table below. Table 36: Current consumption on VBAT Pins (VBAT=3.8V) GNSS GNSS supply current @ -140dBm,Tracking Typical:TBD (AT+CFUN=0,with USB connection) LTE sleep/idle mode LTE supply current Sleep mode Typical: TBD Idle mode Typical: TBD (GNSS off,without USB connection) LTE data...
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Smart Machine Smart Decision the connectors which human body may touch, such as USIM card holder, audio jacks, switches, keys, etc. The following table shows the MODULE ESD measurement performance without any external ESD component. Table 37: The ESD performance measurement table (Temperature: 25℃, Humidity: 45%) Part Contact discharge Air discharge...
Smart Machine Smart Decision SMT Production Guide Top and Bottom View of MODULE Figure 309: Top and bottom view of MODULE SIM7600NA_user manual _V1.00 2020-1-7...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Label Information Figure 40: Label information Table 38: The description of label information Description LOGO Module part number Project name Serial number International mobile equipment identity Typical SMT Reflow Profile SIMCom provides a typical soldering profile. Therefore the soldering profile shown below is only SIM7600NA_user manual _V1.00 2020-1-7...
Smart Machine Smart Decision a generic recommendation and should be adjusted to the specific application and manufacturing constraints. Figure41: The ramp-soak-spike reflow profile of MODULE Note: For more details about secondary SMT, please refer to the document [21]. Moisture Sensitivity Level (MSL) MODULE is qualified to Moisture Sensitivity Level (MSL) 3 in accordance with JEDEC J-STD-033.
Smart Machine Smart Decision 300*4=1200 Appendix Ⅰ. Coding Schemes and Maximum Net Data Rates over Air Interface Table 43: Coding Schemes and Maximum Net Data Rates over Air Interface LTE-FDD device category Max data rate(peak) Modulation type (Downlink) Category 1 10Mbps QPSK/16QAM/64QAM Category 2...
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Specification of the Subscriber Identity Module – Mobile Equipment (SIM – ME) interface Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); GSM 03.38 Alphabets and language-specific information Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2) ; GSM 11.10 Mobile Station (MS) conformance specification; Part 1: Conformance specification Digital cellular telecommunications system (Release 5);...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Ⅲ. Terms and Abbreviations Table 45: Terms and Abbreviations Abbreviation Description Analog-to-Digital Converter Antenna Reference Point Bit Error Rate Base Transceiver Station Coding Scheme Circuit Switched Data Clear to Send Digital-to-Analog Converter Discontinuous Reception Digital Signal Processor Data Terminal Equipment (typically computer, terminal, printer) Data Terminal Ready Discontinuous Transmission...
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Smart Machine Smart Decision Radio Frequency Root Mean Square (value) Real Time Clock Subscriber Identification Module Short Message Service serial peripheral interface SMPS Switched-mode power supply TDMA Time Division Multiple Access Terminal Equipment, also referred to as DTE Transmit Direction UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver &...
Smart Machine Smart Decision Ⅳ. Safety Caution Table 46: Safety Caution Marks Requirements When in a hospital or other health care facility, observe the restrictions about the use of mobiles. Switch the cellular terminal or mobile off, medical equipment may be sensitive and not operate normally due to RF energy interference.
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Antenna requirements Antenna List: Type: Dipole antenna with non-standard SMA connector(50ohm); Model: MF25D Antenna Gain: Band 2:1.87dBi,Band 4:3.12dBi, Band 5:0.91dBi, Band 12:0.95dBi, Band 13:2.23dBi, Band 14:2.18dBi, Band 25:1.87dBi, Band 26:1.40dBi, Band 41:3.20dBi, Band 66:3.12dBi, Band 71:-0.48dBi The user must match the MF25D antenna with the non-standard SMA connector and cannot change the antenna.
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FCC Statement This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: This device may not cause harmful interference, and this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Any Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.
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IC Warning This device complies with Industry Canada licence-exempt RSS standard(s). Operation is subject to the following two conditions: This device may not cause interference, and This device must accept any interference, including interference that may cause undesired operation of the device. The modular can be installed or integrated in mobile or fix devices only.
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