YUGE CLM920 NC5 Installation manual

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CLM920_NC5_LTE Module Hardware User Guide
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LTE Module Hardware User Guide
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Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction...................................................................................................................................... 5
Chapter 2. Module review..................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Product Introduction............................................................................................................................ 6
2.2 Module characteristics......................................................................................................................... 7
2.3 Module function...................................................................................................................................9
Chapter 3. Interface application description....................................................................................................10
3.1 Overview of this chapter....................................................................................................................10
3.2 Module interface................................................................................................................................ 11
3.2.1 52-pin gold finger................................................................................................................... 11
3.2.2 Interface Definition.................................................................................................................12
3.3 Power Interface.................................................................................................................................. 14
3.4 Switching machine reset mode.......................................................................................................... 16
3.4.1 Boot Timing............................................................................................................................ 16
3.4.2 Power-off shutdown................................................................................................................17
3.4.3 Reset control........................................................................................................................... 17
3.5 USB interface.....................................................................................................................................18
3.6 UART interface.................................................................................................................................. 19
3.7 USIM Interface.................................................................................................................................. 20
3.7.1 USIM Card Reference Circuit................................................................................................ 20
3.7.2 USIM_DET Hot Swap Reference Design..............................................................................21
3.8 General GPIO Interface..................................................................................................................... 22
3.9 Network indication interface............................................................................................................. 22
3.10 RF antenna interface........................................................................................................................ 23
3.10.1 RF connector position...........................................................................................................23
3.10.2 RF Connector Size................................................................................................................24
3.11 Analog voice interface..................................................................................................................... 25
3.11.1 Analog Voice Reference Design........................................................................................... 26
3.11.2 PCM digital voice interface.................................................................................................. 27
Chapter 4. Overall technical indicators........................................................................................................... 28
4.1 Chapter overview............................................................................................................................... 28
4.2 Working frequency.............................................................................................................................28
4.3 Conducted RF Measurement............................................................................................................. 29
4.3.1 Test environment.....................................................................................................................29
4.3.2 Test Standards......................................................................................................................... 29
4.4 Conducted Receive Sensitivity and Transmit Power........................................................................ 29
4.5 Antenna requirements........................................................................................................................ 30
4.6 Power Consumption Characteristics..................................................................................................31
Chapter 5. Interface electrical characteristics..................................................................................................33
5.1 Working storage temperature.............................................................................................................33

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5.2 Module IO Level................................................................................................................................33
5.3 Power supply......................................................................................................................................33
5.4 Electrostatic property.........................................................................................................................34
Chapter 6. Structural and mechanical properties.............................................................................................35
6.1 Appearance.........................................................................................................................................35
6.2 Mini PCI Express Connector............................................................................................................. 35
6.3 Module fixing method....................................................................................................................... 36
Chart catalog
Figure 2-1 Functional block diagram of the CLM920_NC5 Mini PCIE module........................................... 10
Figure 3-1 Gold finger TOP surface and BOTTOM surface...........................................................................11
Figure 3-2 Detail of the gold finger TOP and BOTTOM AB......................................................................... 12
Figure 3-3 LDO power reference circuit......................................................................................................... 15
Figure 3-4 DCDC power supply reference circuit...........................................................................................15
Figure 3-5 MOS tube control power switch reference circuit.........................................................................15
Figure 3-6 GSM TDMA Burst Current Supply Voltage Drop.........................................................................16
Figure 3-7 Startup timing diagram...................................................................................................................16
Figure 3-8 Reset Reference Circuit................................................................................................................. 17
Figure 3-9 Reset timing diagram..................................................................................................................... 18
Figure 3-10 USB connection design circuit diagram...................................................................................... 18
Figure 3-11 UART serial port design...............................................................................................................19
Figure 3-12 Level shifting circuit.................................................................................................................... 20
Figure 3-13 USIM design circuit diagram.......................................................................................................21
Figure 3-14 SIM card hot plug detection.........................................................................................................21
Figure 3-15 WAKEUP_OUT signal waveform...............................................................................................22
Figure 3-16 Network indicator circuit diagram...............................................................................................23
Figure 3-17 Location of the RF connector...................................................................................................... 23
Figure 3-18 RF connector size chart................................................................................................................24
Figure 3-19 Matching coaxial RF line size......................................................................................................24
Figure 3-20 Main set and diversity antenna matching circuit......................................................................... 25
Figure 3-21 Comparison of received signal strengths with and without diversity antennas.......................... 25
Figure 3-22 Analog voice reference circuit..................................................................................................... 26
Figure 6-1 Appearance of the CLM920_NC5................................................................................................. 35
Figure 6-2 Connector dimensions....................................................................................................................35
Table directory
Table 2-1 Module Specifications....................................................................................................................... 7
Table 2-2 List of module frequency bands........................................................................................................ 7
Table 2-3 key characteristics..............................................................................................................................8
Table 3-1 IO parameter definition....................................................................................................................12
Table 3-2 Interface definition...........................................................................................................................12
Table 3-3 Power pin definition........................................................................................................................ 14
Table 3-5 boot timing parameters.................................................................................................................... 16

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Table 3-6 RESET pin parameters.................................................................................................................... 17
Table 3-7 USB interface pin definition............................................................................................................18
Table 3-8 UART serial port signal definition.................................................................................................. 19
Table 3-9 SIM card signal definition............................................................................................................... 20
Table 3-10 SIM card hot swap detection pin definition.................................................................................. 21
Table 3-11 General GPIO Pin Definitions....................................................................................................... 22
Table 3-12 Network indicator pin definition................................................................................................... 22
Table 3-13 Network indication status.............................................................................................................. 23
Table 3-4 Main parameters of the RF connector............................................................................................. 24
Table 3-15 Simulation voice pin definition..................................................................................................... 25
Table 3-16 PCM pin definition........................................................................................................................ 27
Table 3-17 PCM specific parameters...............................................................................................................27
Table 4-1 RF frequency table...........................................................................................................................28
Table 4-2 Test instruments............................................................................................................................... 29
Table 4-3 2G3G RF indicators.........................................................................................................................29
Table 4-4 4G RF sensitivity indicators............................................................................................................ 30
Table 4-5 4G RF transmit power indicators.................................................................................................... 30
Table 4- 6 Main set antenna indicator requirements........................................................................................30
Table 4-7 GNSS antenna indicator requirements............................................................................................ 31
Table 4-8 GSM power consumption................................................................................................................31
Table 4-9 WCDMA Power Consumption........................................................................................................32
Table 4-10 LTE power consumption................................................................................................................32
Table 4-11 TDS-CDMA power consumption.................................................................................................. 32
Table 5-1 CLM920_NC5 4G module operating temperature..........................................................................33
Table 5-2 Electrical characteristics of the CLM920_NC5 Mini PCIE module...............................................33
Table 5-3 CLM920_NC5 module working voltage.........................................................................................33
Table 5-4 CLM920_NC5 ESD Features..........................................................................................................34

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Chapter 1. Introduction
This document is a wireless solution product CLM920_NC5 Mini PCIE module hardware interface
manual, designed to describe the hardware components and functional characteristics of the module
solution product, application interface definition and usage instructions, electrical and mechanical
characteristics, etc., for user-based application development of the product Provide hardware instructions.
Abbreviation:
ADC
Analog-Digital Converter
AFC
Automatic Frequency Control
AGC
Automatic Gain Control
ARFCN
Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
B2B
Board to Board Connector
BER
Bit Error Rate
CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access
DAI
Digital Audio interface
DAC
Digital-to-Analog Converter
DSP
Digital Signal Processor
DTR
Data Terminal Ready
EFR
Enhanced Full Rate
EMC
Electromagnetic Compatibility
EMI
Electro Magnetic Interference
ESD
Electronic Static Discharge
EVDO
Evolution Data Only
FR
Full Rate
GPRS
General Packet Radio Service
HR
Half Rate
IMEI
International Mobile Equipment Identity
ISO
International Standards Organization
PLL
Phase Locked Loop
PPP
Point-to-point protocol
RAM
Random Access Memory
ROM
Read-only Memory
RTC
Real Time Clock
SMS
Short Message Service
UART
Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter
UIM
User Identifier Management
USB
Universal Serial Bus
VSWR
Voltage Standing Wave Ratio

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Chapter 2. Module review
2.1 Product Introduction
CLM920_NC5 Mini PCIE module is a PCI Express Mini Card 1.2 standard module, which is an
integrated FDD-LTE/TDD-LTE/TD-SCDMA/WCDMA/EVDO/CDMA/EDGE
/GSM network standard and GPS positioning service. Wireless terminal products. The module baseband
chip adopts Qualcomm's MDM9X07, supports the three major network standards of China Mobile Unicom
Telecom, and supports OS: Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10/Android 4.0 and above. The CLM920_NC5
module can be used in the following situations:
Car Equipment
Wireless POS machine
Wireless advertising, media
Remote monitoring
Smart meter reading
Mobile broadband
automated industry
Other wireless terminals, etc.

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2.2 Module characteristics
Table 2-1 Module Specifications
Product name
Description
CLM920_NC5
LTE for CMCC,CUCC and CTCC, support SRLTE,GPS and Analog audio
CLM920_TB5
LTE for CMCC,CUCC and CTCC, support GPS，Analog audio，LTE Cat.1 spec
（optional）
CLM920_TE5
LTE for CMCC,CUCC and EU, support GPS and Analog audio
Table 2-2 List of module frequency bands
Network Type
Frequency band
Module series
CLM920_NC5
CLM920_TB5
CLM920_TE5
GSM
GSM850
√
√
√
GSM900
√
√
√
GSM1800
√
√
√
LTE(FDD)
LTE FDD B1
√
√
√
LTE FDD B3
√
√
√
LTE FDD B5
√
√
√
LTE FDD B7
√
LTE FDD B8
√
√
√
LTE FDD B20
√
LTE(TDD)
LTE TDD B38
√
√
√
LTE TDD B39
√
√
√
LTE TDD B40
√
√
√
LTE TDD B41
√
√
√
TD-SCDMA
TD-SCDMA B34
√
√
√
TD-SCDMA B39
√
√
√
WCDMA
BAND 1
√
√
√
BAND 5
√
√
√
BAND 8
√
√
√
CDMA2000/EV
DO
BC0
√
GNSS
GLONASS
√
√
√
GPS
√
√
√
BeiDou/Compass
√
√
√
The module chip supports Category 4 by default.
The GNSS feature is optional.
The diversity function is optional.
The CLM920 TB5 supports CAT1 standard modules for customer-specific applications. The CAT1

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system has an uplink of 5 Mbps and a downlink of 10 Mbps.
If you have a frequency band or technical requirements, you can contact local technical support for
assistance.
Table 2-3 key characteristics
Characteristic
Description
Physical characteristics
51mmx30mmx2.8mm
Fixed way
Ground screw hole (2)
Application processor
Single core ARM Cortex-A7 processor, clocked at 1.2GHZ, 256kB level 2
cache
Operating Voltage
3.3V - 4.2V Typical Voltage 3.7V
Energy saving current
Standby current < 5mA
Application interface
Standard SIM interface, support 3.0V/1.8V, support hot swap function
USB2.0 (High-Speed)
Hardware reset interface
UART serial interface
PCM/analog voice interface
Power interface
Network status indication interface
General purpose GPIO interface
Antenna connector
Main set antenna connector (MM4829-2702RA4)
Diversity Antenna Connector (MM4829-2702RA4)
GPS antenna connector (MM4829-2702RA4)
Transmit power
LTE:
Class 3 (23dBm±2dB)
UMTS:
Class 3 (24dBm+1/-3dB)
TD-SCDMA:
Class 2 (24dBm+1/-3dB)
CDMA2000：
Class 3 (24dBm+3/-1dB)
GSM/GPRS:
Class 4 (33dBm±2dB) GSM850/GSM900
Class 1 (30dBm±2dB) DCS1800/PCS1900
Data service
GSM/EDGE:
GPRS: DL 85.6 kbps/UL 85.6 kbps
EDGE: DL 236.8 kbps/UL 236.8 kbps
WCDMA:
UMTS R99：DL 384 kbps/UL 384 kbps
DC-HSPA+: DL 42 Mbps/UL 5.76 Mbps
TD-SCDMA:
TD-HSDPA/HSUPA: 2.2Mbps（UL）/2.8Mbps（DL）
EV-DOr0/DOrA

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CDMA 1xEVDOr0: DL 2.4Mbps/UL 153kbps
CDMA 1xEVDOrA: DL 3.1Mbps/UL 1.8Mbps
LTE:
LTE FDD:DL 150Mbps/UL 50Mbps@20M BW cat4
LTE TDD:DL 130Mbps/UL 35Mbps@20M BW cat4
LTE FDD:DL 10Mbps/UL 5Mbps@20M BW cat1
LTE TDD:DL 10Mbps/UL 5Mbps@20M BW cat1
Satellite positioning
GPS/BEIDOU/GLONASS
Protocol：NMEA
Diversity antenna
Support LTE diversity antenna
AT command
Support for standard AT instruction sets (Hayes 3GPP TS 27.007 and
27.005)
SMS business
Support Text and PDU mode
Support point-to-point MO and MT
SMS storage: USIM card / ME (default)
Virtual network card
Support USB virtual network card
Temperature range
Normal operating temperature –35°C to +75°C
Extreme operating temperature –40°C to +85°C
Storage temperature -40°C to +85°C
Module function distinction
On the label paper, M stands for the main set, D takes the table
diversity, G stands for GPS, and V stands for analog voice.
2.3 Module function
The CLM920_NC5 Mini PCIE module mainly consists of the following circuit units:
Baseband processing unit
Power management unit
Memory unit
RF transceiver unit
RF front end unit
GPS RF receiving unit
The functional block diagram of the CLM920_NC5 Mini PCIE module is as follows: