Antenna Requirements - Quectel FC800L Manual

Figure 12: Coplanar Waveguide Design on a 4-layer PCB (Layer 4 as Reference Ground)
In order to ensure RF performance and reliability, the following principles should be complied with in RF
layout design:
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Use an impedance simulation tool to accurately control the characteristic impedance of RF traces
to 50 Ω.
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The GND pins adjacent to RF pins should not be designed as thermal relief pads, and should be fully
connected to ground.
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The distance between the RF pins and the RF connector should be as short as possible, and all the
right-angle traces should be changed to curved ones. The recommended trace angle is 135° .
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There should be clearance under the signal pin of the antenna connector or solder joint.
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The reference ground of RF traces should be complete. Meanwhile, adding some ground vias around
RF traces and the reference ground could help to improve RF performance. The distance between
the ground vias and RF traces should be no less than two times the width of RF signal traces (2 × W).
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Keep RF traces away from interference sources, and avoid intersection and paralleling between
traces on adjacent layers.
For more details about RF layout, see document
3.8.5.
Antenna Requirement
The following tables show the requirements on antenna cables and antennas.
Table 3: Antenna Cable Requirements
Type
2.400–2.4835 GHz
5.150–5.850 GHz
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Requirements
Cable insertion loss: <1 dB
Cable insertion loss: <1 dB
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