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  • Page 1 HTTP://WWW.FALCOM.DE/ This document is available at I56/I56i Hardware description Preliminary Version 1.00...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Operating modes during charging....................38 5.6.6 Charger requirements........................40 5.6.7 Features supported on the first and second serial interfaces of GSM/GPRS engine....40 This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 2...
  • Page 3 ....................... 61 CARD HOLDER GSM EVALUATION KIT (GSM EVAL-KIT) .....62 Version history Version number Author Changes 1.00 Fadil Beqiri Initial version This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 3...
  • Page 4 FALCOM GmbH. FALCOM GmbH. No patent liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained herein. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 4...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Figure 1: Views (front and back side) of I56/I56i Users are advised to proceed quickly to the „Security“ chapter and read the hints carefully. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 5...

  • Page 6: The Difference Between I56 And I56I Modules

    Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number Antenna Reference Point ASC0 Asynchronous Controller. Abbreviations used for serial interface of I56/I56i ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 6...
  • Page 7 Low Noise Amplifier Mbps Mbits per second Man Machine Interface Mobile Originated Mobile Station (GSM engine), also referred to as TE This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 7...
  • Page 8 Own numbers (MSISDNs) stored on SIM or ME Mobile Equipment list of received calls SIM phonebook Table 1: Used abbreviations This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 8...

  • Page 9: Related Documents

    3. ITU-T V.25ter “Serial asynchronous automatic dialling and control” 4. I56/I56i AT Command Set 5. gprs_startup_user_guide_rev_1.00_preliminary 6. I56i TCP Command Set This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 9...

  • Page 10: Security

    Do not hold the antenna when the modem is „IN USE“. Holding the antenna affects call quality and may cause the modem to operate at a higher power level than needed. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 10...

  • Page 11: Antenna Care And Replacement

    To prevent interference with cellular systems, local RF regulations prohibit using your modem whilst airborne. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 11...

  • Page 12: Children

    It is also recommended to use the equipment not close to medical devices as for example hearing aids and pacemakers. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 12...

  • Page 13: Safety Standards

    European Community, Directorate General V in matters of radio frequency electromagnetic energy. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 13...

  • Page 14: Technical Data

    Small MS Transmit power: Class 4 (2 W) at GSM850 Class 1 (1 W) at GSM 1800 and GSM 1900 This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 14...
  • Page 15 40-pin board-to-board connector (note that extra card reader is not part of I56/I56i) Casing: Fully shield This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 15...
  • Page 16 Supports SAT class 3, GSM 11.14 Release 98 Ringing tones: Offers choice different ringing tones/melodies, easily selectable with AT command Real time clock: Implemented This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 16...
  • Page 17 Please note that the values listed above are the maximum ratings which, in practice, are influenced by a great variety of factors, primarily, for example, traffic variations and network coverage. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 17...

  • Page 18: Power Consumption For I56, Only

    I56/I56i board temperature -29 °C >70 Table 4: Operating temperature I56/I56i works, but deviations from the GSM specification may occur. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 18...

  • Page 19: Air Interface Of The I56 Gsm/Gprs

    -102 -107 GSM 1800 -102 -106 BER Class II < 2.4 % GSM 1900 -102 -105.5 Table 5: Air Interface This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 19...

  • Page 20: Gsm/Gprs Application Interface

    GPRS data transfer in progress. Power consumption depends on network settings (e.g. power control level), uplink/downlink data rates and GPRS configuration (e.g. used multislot settings). This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 20...

  • Page 21: Power Down

    Charge mode changes to Charge-only mode when the module is powered down before charging has been completed. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 21...

  • Page 22: Hardware Interfaces

    2.2 x 16 mm The screw could be longer and it depends on the customer’s application. Table 6: Interface specifications This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 22...

  • Page 23: Description Of The 50-Pin Double-Row Connector

    (up to 2 A). Sending with 1154 µs every 4.616 ms two Timeslots doubles the duration of current pulses to 1154 µs (every 4.616 ms)! This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 23...
  • Page 24 = 2.3 V at I = -1 mA 200 mm to SIM card OHmin SIMRST holder. = 2.73 V OHmax This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 24...
  • Page 25 LED (see 4.616 ms, with 300 µs chapter 5.8.2). forward time. If not used leave it open. GPIO2** GPIO0 This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 25...

  • Page 26: Determining The External Equipment Type

    Equipment) are typically used to describe serial ports on devices. Computers (PCs) generally use DTE connectors and communication devices such as This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 26...

  • Page 27: Special Functionality Pins

    Two VC5 pins of the board-to-board connector are dedicated to connect the supply voltage, five GND pins are recommended for grounding. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 27...

  • Page 28: Power Up/Down Scenarios

    HIGH level for at least 100 ms. On open collector is also internally integrated on this line, which manage the turn on procedure. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 28...
  • Page 29 5.4.3.4 Turn off the GSM/GPRS engine of I56/I56i module To switch the module off the following procedures may be used: This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 29...
  • Page 30 Use the RESET pin only when, due to serious problems, the software is not responding for more than 5 seconds. Pulling the This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 30...

  • Page 31: Automatic Shutdown

    URC presentation mode varies with the condition, please see chapters 5.4.4.1 5.4.4.3 for details. For further instructions on AT commands refer to [4]. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 31...
  • Page 32 I56/I56i switches off. ^SCTM_A: -2 Alert: T of battery equal or below under temperature limit. I56/I56i s itches off This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 32...
  • Page 33 If the supply voltage exceeds the maximum value specified in , loss of Table 4 data and even unrecoverable hardware damage can occur. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 33...

  • Page 34: Automatic Gprs Multislot Class Change

    6. A list of parts recommended for the external circuit is given in table 12 below. Figure 6: Schematic of charging/discharging process. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 34...

  • Page 35: Power-Set-Input

    AT^SBC to deliver incorrect battery capacity values. A battery pack especially designed to operate with I56/I56i module is specified in chapter 5.6.3. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 35...
  • Page 36 Figure 8 below shows the circuit diagram of a typical battery pack design that includes the protection elements described above. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 36...

  • Page 37: Recommended Battery Pack Specification

    4.2 V and then it proceeds with varying charge pulses. As shown in , the pulse duty cycle is reduced to adjust the charging procedure Figure 9 This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 37...

  • Page 38: Operating Modes During Charging

    GSM/GPRS part of I56/I56i is in POWER DOWN mode, the GSM/GPRS part of the I56/I56i goes into Charge-only mode. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 38...
  • Page 39 Command Set supplied with your GSM engine. AT command Function AT+CALA Set alarm time AT+CCLK Set date and time of RTC This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 39...

  • Page 40: Charger Requirements

    0 V (for low data bit or ON condition) and 2.65 V (for high data bit or OFF condition). See chapter to determinate the DTE-DCE connection. ASC0: ↔ 8-wire serial interface This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 40...

  • Page 41: Sim Interface

    200 mm in order to meet the specifications of 3GPP TS 51.010-1 and to satisfy the requirements of EMC compliance. Signal Description Ground connection for SIM card. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 41...
  • Page 42 SIM card during operation. Also, no guarantee can be given for properly initializing any SIM card that the This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 42...
  • Page 43 GSM recommendations, where pins 7 and 8 are needed for SIM card tray detection through the SIMPRES pin. Figure 15: Pin numbers of Molex SIM card holder This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 43...

  • Page 44: Audio Interface

    As an alternative to generating the synchronization signal, the GPIO1 pin can be used to control a status LED on your application platform. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 44...

  • Page 45: Behaviour Of The Ring_0 Line (Asc0 Interface)

    Code). Although not mandatory for use in a host application, it is strongly suggested that you connect the RING_0 line to an interrupt line of your This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 45...
  • Page 46 URC type was activated with AT+CNMI=1,1, each incoming SMS causes the RING_0 line to go low. See [4] for detailed information on URCs. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 46...

  • Page 47: Power Saving

    If level 0 has been selected (AT+CFUN=0), the serial interface is blocked. The module shortly deactivates power saving to listen to a paging message sent This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 47...

  • Page 48: Cyclic Sleep Mode (At+Cfun=5, 6, 7, 8)

    AT^SCFG. Default setting is 2 seconds like in AT+CFUN=7. The entire range is from 0.5 seconds to 1 hour, selectable in tenths of seconds. For details see [4]. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 48...

  • Page 49: Timing Of The Cts Signal In Cyclic Sleep Modes

    Figure 22 illustrates the CFUN=5 and CFUN=7 modes, which reset the CTS signal 2 seconds after the last character was sent or received. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 49...

  • Page 50: Wake Up I56/I56I From Sleep Mode

    Quit Temporary received SMS) AT+CNMI=1,1 (= displays URC upon receipt of SMS) GPRS data transfer Not possible Temporary Temporary (UART This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 50...

  • Page 51: Summary Of State Transitions (Except Sleep Mode)

    Alarm mode when specified time is reached Alarm mode Table 20: Summary of state transitions _______________________________________________________________ Normal mode covers TALK, DATA, GPRS, IDLE and SLEEP modes This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 51...

  • Page 52: Resetting The Gsm Module By At+Cfun=1,1

    The GSM modem of the I56/I56i is controlled by an advanced set of AT commands. For further information it is recommended to read the ETSI recommendation. See also related documents [4]. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 52...

  • Page 53: Emc And Esd Requirements

    The I56/I56i cellular engine must be connected directly to the ground of the base device. Note: The device should only be handled in compliance with ESD regulations (grounded, ESD chain, trained personnel). This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 53...

  • Page 54: Rf Exposures

    • Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. • Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 54...

  • Page 55: First Steps To Make It Works

    Maybe a mobile phone is required to be used to verify the best location for the I56/I56i connected antenna. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 55...

  • Page 56: Sim Interface

    (e.g. HyperTerminal). Refer also on the section to determinate the DTE-DCE connection. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 56...

  • Page 57: Power Supply

    The serial interface of the module is inaccessible yet. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 57...

  • Page 58: Turn On The Gsm/Gprs Engine Of I56/I56I

    8.1). Now the module is ready for operation and the serial interface of the module is accessible. Just type AT and then “ENTER” key the module responds OK. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 58...

  • Page 59: Housing

    I65/I56I HARDWARE DESCRIPTION VERSION 1.00 9 Housing 54,0 9,4±0,1 60,1±0,1 47,1 14,7 Figure 24: Housing of I56/I56i This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 59...

  • Page 60: Connector Supplier And Peripheral Devices

    KA07 (MOQ-set of 10 pieces). Figure 25 shows the KA07 antenna cable with MMCX and FME-female connectors. This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 60...

  • Page 61: The Sim Card Holder

    It is possible to use an external SIM card holder through the 50-pin connector (the length of the SIM line must not exceed 15 cm). This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 61...

  • Page 62: Gsm Evaluation Kit (Gsm Eval-Kit)

    I56/I56i hardware manual I56i TCP/IP command set Schematics of the evaluation platform and adapter PCB’s (power supply, external SIM card, serial interface). This confidential document is the property of FALCOM GmbH and may not be copied or circulated without permission. Page 62...

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