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This document is a hardware RF board manual for LTE user equipment platform. Contents of 2
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1 Introduction................................................................................................................................ 1 2
1.1 Scope ..................................................................................................................................... 1 3
1.2 Terminology............................................................................................................................ 1 4
2 Features and Photograph........................................................................................................... 2 5
2.1 Features ................................................................................................................................. 2 6
2.2 Photograph of the LEO3 RF board .......................................................................................... 2 7
3 Block Diagram and Description.................................................................................................. 4 8
3.1 Block Diagram ........................................................................................................................ 4 9
3.2 Block Description .................................................................................................................... 4 10
3.2.1 RX Blocks .............................................................................................................................. 4 11
3.2.2 TX Blocks................................................................................................................................ 5 12
3.2.3 Common Blocks................................................................................................................. 6 13
4 Interface .................................................................................................................................... 7 14
4.1 Power supply .......................................................................................................................... 7 15
4.2 Digital I/Q Data & Sampling Cock ........................................................................................... 8 16
4.3 SPI ......................................................................................................................................... 8 17
4.4 Control signals (GPIO’s).......................................................................................................... 9 18
4.5 LEDs....................................................................................................................................... 9 19
4.6 Logic probing header .............................................................................................................. 9 20
5 Placement Map....................................................................................................................... 10 21
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Figure 1: Photograph of LEO3 RF ................................................................................................... 3 3
Figure 2: RF Block Diagram (For RX/TX) ........................................................................................ 4 4
Figure 3: Diagrams of Power supply................................................................................................ 7 5
Figure 4: Diagrams of Data & Clock Signal Interface....................................................................... 8 6
Figure 5: Diagram of SPI interface .................................................................................................. 9 7
Figure 6: RX I/Q data probing Interface ........................................................................................ 10 8
Figure 7: Top placement map of LEO3 RF (AWS) ....................................................................... 10 9
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Table 1: List of SPI programmable devices ..................................................................................... 8 15
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and verify LTE user equipment modem. This RF board is connected to 3rd version of LTE user 6
equipment platform (LEO3) as the form of daughter board. This document intends to describe the 7
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MISO Multi-In Single-Out 19
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RF Radio Frequency 21
SAW Surface Acoustic Wave 22
UE User Equipment 23
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