Fibocom LC116-LA Installation instructions

LC116-LA
Hardware Guide
V1.1

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Contents
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Contents
Applicability Type...............................................................................................4
Change History..................................................................................................5
1 Overview..........................................................................................................6
1.1 Product Introduction ................................................................................................... 6
1.2 Characteristics ............................................................................................................... 7
1.3 System architecture ..................................................................................................... 8
1.4 Operating Mode............................................................................................................ 8
2 Technical Indicators .....................................................................................10
2.1 Physical Indicators......................................................................................................10
2.2 RF ....................................................................................................................................11
2.3 GNSS Performance.....................................................................................................14
2.4 Electrical Indicators ....................................................................................................17
2.5 Application Environment...........................................................................................18
2.6 Reliability Indicators ...................................................................................................18
2.7 ESD Indicators .............................................................................................................19
3 Pins.................................................................................................................21
3.1 Pin Properties ..............................................................................................................21
3.2 Pin Distribution............................................................................................................21
3.3 Pin Details .....................................................................................................................23
3.3.1 Power Interface ....................................................................................................23
3.3.2 Control Interfaces ................................................................................................23
3.3.3 Baseband Interface .............................................................................................24
3.3.4 RF Interface............................................................................................................25
3.3.5 Other interfaces....................................................................................................25
4 Circuit Design................................................................................................34
4.1 Power Interface...........................................................................................................34
4.1.1 Power input............................................................................................................34
4.2 Control Interface.........................................................................................................36
4.2.1 Pulse startup .........................................................................................................36

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4.2.2 Auto power-on ......................................................................................................37
4.2.3 Power-off ................................................................................................................38
4.2.4 Reset........................................................................................................................39
4.3 Operating Mode..........................................................................................................41
4.3.1 Flight mode............................................................................................................41
4.3.2 Sleep........................................................................................................................41
4.3.2.1 USB Application (USB Suspend Not Supported and VBUS Supported)
.........................................................................................................................................41
4.3.2.2 USB Application (USB Suspend Not Supported and VBUS Not
Supported) ....................................................................................................................42
4.3.2.3 USB Application (USB Suspend Supported)............................................43
4.3.2.4 Disabling USB .................................................................................................43
4.4 Baseband Interface....................................................................................................44
4.4.1 USB ..........................................................................................................................44
4.4.2 UART ........................................................................................................................45
4.4.3 I2C.............................................................................................................................46
4.4.4 SD card....................................................................................................................47
4.4.5 ADC ..........................................................................................................................48
4.4.6 USIM ........................................................................................................................48
4.4.6.1 (U)SIM Card Connector with Card Detection Signal .............................48
4.4.6.2 (U)SIM Card Connector Without Card Detection Signals ....................50
4.4.6.3 (U)SIM Hot Plugging .....................................................................................50
4.4.6.4 (U)SIM Card Design Requirements ...........................................................51
4.4.7 PCM..........................................................................................................................51
4.4.7.1 PCM Interface Description ..........................................................................52
4.4.7.2 PCM Signal Description................................................................................52
4.4.8 Status Indicator ....................................................................................................54
4.4.8.1 Network Status Indicator.............................................................................54
4.4.8.2 STATES ..............................................................................................................56
4.4.9 HSIC Interface*.....................................................................................................56
4.4.10 LCD Interface ......................................................................................................56

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4.4.11 SGMII ....................................................................................................................57
4.5 RF Part ...........................................................................................................................58
4.5.1 Antenna Design ....................................................................................................58
4.5.2 Impedance Design...............................................................................................60
5 Packaging and Storage ...............................................................................63
5.1 Packaging .....................................................................................................................63
5.2 Storage..........................................................................................................................63
6 Appendix .......................................................................................................64
6.1 GPRS and EGPRS Encoding Scheme......................................................................64
6.2 Acronyms and Abbreviations ...................................................................................66
6.3 Related Documents....................................................................................................68
6.4 Reference Standards..................................................................................................68

Applicability Type
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Applicability Type
No.
Applicability Type
Description
1
LC116-LA
MCP is 2Gbit Flash+2Gbit RAM, and supports MAIN_ANT
and DIV_ANT.

Change History
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Change History
V1.0 (2021-11-10)
Initial version
V1.1 (2021-12-16)
Updated the known issues.

1 Overview
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1Overview
1.1 Product Introduction
The LC116-LA module is a broadband wireless terminal product based on Qualcomm
9X07 platform, applicable to multiple network systems and bands such as TDD-LTE,
FDD-LTE, WCDMA and GSM. The following table lists the sub-models of the LC116-LA
product.
Table 1. Sub-models of the LC116-LA product
No.
Applicability Type
Description
1
LC116-LA-00-90
MCP is 2Gbit Flash+2Gbit RAM, and supports
MAIN_ANT and DIV_ANT.
2
LC116-LA-00-91
MCP is 2Gbit Flash+2Gbit RAM, and supports
MAIN_ANT and DIV_ANT.
3
LC116-LA-10-90
MCP is 2Gbit Flash+2Gbit RAM, and supports
MAIN_ANT.
4
LC116-LA-10-91
MCP is 2Gbit Flash+2Gbit RAM, and supports
MAIN_ANT and DIV_ANT.
The following figure shows the appearance of the LC116-LA product.

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Figure 1. Product appearance
1.2 Characteristics
The product hardware has the following characteristics.
Table 2. Basic configuration
Indicator
Description
Basic Configuration
Processor
MDM9X07
Memory
2Gbit Flash+2Gbit RAM
Supported Operating System
LINUX
Table 3. Baseband characteristics
Category
Description
Function interface
USB × 1, support USB2.0
I2C × 1
UART × 2
GPIOs
Peripheral interface
USIM × 1, support single card single standby mode
LCD × 1
SGMII × 1

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PCM × 1
SD × 1
ADC × 3
Table 4. RF characteristics
Category
Description
Antenna interface
Main antenna × 1
Diversity antenna × 1
1.3 System architecture
The LC116-LA product hardware consists of the following parts:
Baseband part: PMIC, MCP, USB, (U)SIM, PCM, I2C, UART, SGMII, SDIO, GPIOs,
GSM/CDMA/EVDO/WCDMA/TD-SCDMA/LTE TDD/LTE FDD controller
RF part: RF Transceiver, RF PA, RF filter Antenna
The following figure shows the internal structural block diagram.
1.4 Operating Mode
The module supports the following operating modes.
Table 5. Operating mode
Operating Mode
Description
Shutdown
When the VBAT pin of the module is not powered or the power
voltage is lower than 3 V, the module is in a shutdown state.
Standby
The module is powered on, and it can be operated using the AT
commands through the serial port. The module is registered with the
network, there is no service processing in progress, and the module is
ready for communication. This is the default operating mode after the