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SIM8200EA_M2 Antenna Port Mapping and Deign Guide SIM8200G_LGA Antenna Port Mapping and Deign Guide Document Title: Version: V1.02 Date: 2021-01-08 Status: Released GENERAL NOTES SIMCOM OFFERS THIS INFORMATION AS A SERVICE TO ITS CUSTOMERS, TO SUPPORT APPLICATION AND ENGINEERING EFFORTS THAT USE THE PRODUCTS DESIGNED BY SIMCOM. THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IS BASED UPON REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICALLY PROVIDED TO SIMCOM BY THE CUSTOMERS.
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SIM8200EA_M2 Antenna Port Mapping and Deign Guide Version History Date Version Description of change Author 2020-04-03 1.00 Original Yu.Liu 2020-04-03 1.01 Add antenna reduction chapter Yu.Liu 2021-01-08 1.02 Update table 2, 4 and 5 Yibo.Zhong www.simcom.com 3 / 14...
SIM8200EA_M2 Antenna Port Mapping and Deign Guide Introduction This document describes the SIM8200G 5G module antenna port mapping and Antenna design guide to customer to refer. Definitions, symbols and abbreviations Abbreviations Description Low Frequency Band Middle and High Frequency Band Ultra High Frequency Band Limited Access Authorization Transmit and Receive signal...
SIM8200EA_M2 Antenna Port Mapping and Deign Guide Antenna Design Guide 3.1 Port mapping SIM8200G_LGA is designed with 6 antennas, module and antenna connector is shown in figure1. the Bands and the Antenna port mapping is shown in table1. Figure1 SIM8200-LGA Module www.simcom.com 8 / 14...
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SIM8200EA_M2 Antenna Port Mapping and Deign Guide Table1: Antenna Pin Definition ANT number LGA footprint number ANT0 ANT1 BA25 ANT2 BA41 ANT3 AY51 ANT4 BA33 ANT5 BA19 ANT6 ANT7 BA47 Table2: Module frequency bands and antenna ports mapping ANTENNAS ANT0 ANT1 ANT2 ANT3...
SIM8200EA_M2 Antenna Port Mapping and Deign Guide 3.2 Reference Design The space isolation of each antenna should be larger than 20dB. And the isolation between LTE antennas and 5GNR antennas is at least 15dB, and the GNSS antenna between 4G/5G antennas should be larger than 15dB.
SIM8200EA_M2 Antenna Port Mapping and Deign Guide (4) And the RF trace ground should be complete; (5) RF device should place ground to the nearest ground plane; (6) Between RF trace and below should avoid other signal trace or parallel trace to the RF signal. (7) Recommend to more ground vias near the RF traces.
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SIM8200EA_M2 Antenna Port Mapping and Deign Guide Figure3 Triplexer characteristic In this program, the max downlink throughput for n79/n41 changes to half, and quarter for n77/n78. the max uplink throughput for n79/n77/n78 changes to half, n41 is not affected. Figure4 Triplexer and Antenna connection 5.2 Four antennas design For China Mobile (CMCC) only, the NR band need n41 and n79, if customer want to use less antennas, at least 4 Antennas should be used, they are ANT0, ANT1, ANT4, ANT7.
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SIM8200EA_M2 Antenna Port Mapping and Deign Guide BANDS FUNCTIONS 3G/4G/5G LB/MHB UL/DL-MIMO1 DL-MIMO2 DL-MIMO2 n41/n77/n78 DL-MIMO1 n77/n78 UL/DL-MIMO1 In this case, 3G/4G UL/DL , 5G n79 UL/DL and n41 UL throughput is half of the 8 antennas situation; 5G n41 DL throughput is 3/4 of the 8 antennas situation.
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SIM8200EA_M2 Antenna Port Mapping and Deign Guide 5.3 Six antennas design If customers want to use all the China NR bands, and want to use less Antennas than the original design which use 8 Antennas. The six antennas configuration is recommended. Like the 2 Ants design, ANT4, ANT5 and ANT7 should be combine to with a triplexer, the triplexer detail please refer to 2 antennas design.
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