The RM-17 product is a DCT4.5 Fashion segment phone. It is a triple band EGSM900/
GSM1800/GSM1900 phone.
The HW has the following features:
•GPRS and HSCSD with EDGE in up to (2RX + 2TX) (MCS5), without EDGE also
in (3RX + 1TX) (MCS6)
•DCT4 with AMR and 16 MIDI tones
•128/16 Mbit Combo memory
•Amazon Active display with 64k colours
•Battery BL-5B
•PopPort
•5-way navigation key with select
TM
interface
•VGA Camera
•Vibra
•IHF
•FM radio
•IR module
•Back-up battery
The RM-17 BB is based on the DCT4/4.5 engine and is compatible to the PopPort
ries. The DCT4/4.5 engine consists basically of two ASICs. The UEMEK (Universal Energy
Management IC including voltage regulators, charge control and audio circuits, audio IHF amplifier from DCT4.5) and the UPP (Universal Phone Processor including MCU, DSP and RAM
from DCT4).
UEMEK supplies both baseband and RF with power via built in voltage regulators, which are
connected to the battery. The RF parts use mainly 2.78 V and the baseband parts 1.8V I/O voltage. The UPP core is supplied with programmable core voltage of 1.0V, 1.3V or 1.5V. UEMEK
includes 7linear LDO (Low Drop-Out) regulators for baseband and 7 regulators for RF. It also
includes 4 current sources for biasing purposes and internal usage. The UEMEK is furthermore
supplying the SIM interface with a programmable voltage of 1.8V or 3V.
Note: 5V SIM cards are no longer supported by DCT-4 generation Baseband.
UPP operates from a 26 MHz clock coming from the RF ASIC Helgo. The clock signal is divided
by two down to the nominal system clock frequency of 13 MHz. The DSP and MCU contain
PLLs, which can multiply the system clock to a higher frequency.
A real time clock function is integrated into the UEMEK, which utilizes the same 32kHz clock
supply as the sleep clock.
The communication between UEMEK and UPP is implemented using two bi-directional serial
busses, CBUS and DBUS. The CBUS is controlled by the MCU and operates at a speed of 1
MHz. The DBUS is controlled by the MCU and operates at a speed of 13 MHz. Both processors
are located in the UPP.
The UEMEK ASIC handles the analog interface between the Baseband and the RF section.
UEMEK provides A/D and D/A conversion of the in-phase and quadrature receive and transmit
signal paths and also A/D and D/A conversions of received and transmitted audio signals to
and from the user interface. The UEMEK supplies the analog TXC and AFC signals to the RF
section according to UPP signal control. There are also separate signals for PDM coded audio.
Digital speech processing is handled by the DSP inside UPP ASIC.
UEMEK is a dual voltage circuit, the digital parts are running from the baseband supply 1.8V
and the analog parts are running from the analog supply 2.78V. Also VBAT is directly used (Vibra, LED-driver, Camera Regulator, FCI).
The Baseband supports both internal and external microphone inputs and speaker outputs.
Keypad tones, DTMF, and other audio tones are generated and encoded by the UPP and transmitted to the UEMEK for decoding. An external vibra alert control signals are generated by the
UEMEK with separate PWM outputs.
EMC shielding is implemented using a soldered shielding, RF cans and PWB grounding.
•DSP, LEAD3 16 bit DSP core 32 bit IF max. 200 MHz
•MCU based on ARM7 RISC MCU core max 50 MHz
•Internal 8 Mbit SRAM (PDRAM)
•General purpose UARTS
•SIM card interface
•Accessory interface (ACI)
•Interface control for Keypad, LCD, Audio and UEM control
•Handling of BB-RF Interface
UEMEK
Main characteristics of the used UEMEK are:
•ACI support
•Audio codec
•11 Channel A/D converter
•Auxiliary A/D converter
•32 KHz crystal oscillator
•SIM interface and drivers
•Security logic
•Storage of IMEI code
•Buzzer and vibra motor PWM drivers
•2 LED drivers, keyboard and display backlight drivers
•Voltage reference for analogue blocks
•Charging function
•Baseband regulators
•RF regulators
•RF interface converters
External SRAM and Flash
The Combo-Memory is a multi chip package memory which combines 128 Mbit (8Mx16) muxed
burst multibank flash and 16 Mbit muxed CMOS PSRAM (Pseudo SRAM: DRAM with SRAM
interface).
The combo is supplied by single 1,8 V for read, write and erase operations. For accelerated
flash programming, Vpp = 9.0 V has to be applied to VPP input of the combo device.
The combo memory is housed in a 44-ball FBGA.
■ Energy management
The energy management of RM-17 is based on BB 4.0 architecture. A so-called semi fixed battery (BL-5B) supplies power primarily to UEMEK ASIC and the RF PA. The UEMEK includes
several regulators to supply RF and Baseband. It provides energy management including power up/down procedure. (If the main battery is not present, a cell capacitor maintains backup
power supply for the RTC part of UEMEK.)
Modes of operation
The baseband engine has six different functional modes: Since the UEMEK controls the regulated power distribution; each of these states affects the general functionality of the phone.
1. No supply
2. Backup
3. Acting Dead
4. Active
5. Sleep
6. Charging
No Supply
In NO_SUPPLY mode, the phone has no supply voltage. This mode is due to the disconnection
of the main battery and backup battery or low battery voltage level in both of the batteries.
The phone is exiting from NO_SUPPLY mode when sufficient battery voltage level is detected.
The battery voltage can rise either by connecting a new battery with VBAT > V
necting charger and charging the battery above V
MSTR+
.
MSTR+
or by con-
Backup
In BACKUP mode the backup battery has sufficient charge but the main battery can be discon-
nected or empty (VBAT < V
and VBACK > VBU
MSTR
COFF
).
The VRTC regulator is disabled in BACKUP mode. VRTC output is supplied without regulation
from the backup battery (VBACK). All the other regulators are disabled.
Acting Dead
If the phone is off when the charger is connected, the phone is powered on but enters a state
called ”Acting Dead”. To the user, the phone acts as if it was switched off. A battery-charging
alert is given and/or a battery charging indication on the display is shown to acknowledge the
user that the battery is being charged.
Active
In Active mode, the phone is in normal operation, scanning for channels, listening to a base
station, transmitting and processing information. There are several sub-states in the active
mode depending on if the phone is in burst reception, burst transmission, if DSP is working etc.