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Assembly  And  Maintenance  Manual  for  Telink  BLE  1x6  Test  System  3.2 

AN-18071200-E1 

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Ver 1.0.0 

 

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Dimension chart of Buzzer board 

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Summary of Contents for BLE 1x6 Test System 3.2

Page 1: ...elink BLE 1x6 Test System 3 2 AN 18071200 E1 Ver 1 0 0 2018 7 12 TELINK SEMICONDUCTOR Brief This document is the assembly and maintenance guide for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3 2 and presents DUT examples with flash or OTP T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 2: ...out of the application or use of any product or circuit described herein neither does it convey any license under its patent rights nor the rights of others The products shown herein are not designed for use in medical life saving or life sustaining applications Customers using or selling Telink Semiconductor products not expressly indicated for use in such applications do so entirely at their own...

Page 3: ...nd Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3 2 AN 18071200 E1 2 Ver 1 0 0 Revision History Version Major Changes Date Author 1 0 0 Initial release 2018 7 LWH LX Cynthia T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 4: ...able connection between Main board and Display board 16 2 3 6 Cable connection between Main board and PCB antenna board 16 2 3 7 Other cable connection 17 2 4 Check Jig debugging 20 3 Firmware Burning For EVK Daughter Boards 22 3 1 Folder structure for Test Bench Firmware 22 3 2 Firmware burning for EVK daughter boards 25 4 Observe Test Result Via PC Software EvkMonitor 28 5 Update PCBA DUT Firmwa...

Page 5: ... of Display board 14 Figure 17 Cable connection chart 17 Figure 18 1x6 Test system 3 2 18 Figure 19 Cable connection sketch of Main board 18 Figure 20 Cable connection of Display Antenna Thimble board and DUT thimble 19 Figure 21 Connection chart between EVK daughter board and PC 25 Figure 22 Firmware burning interface 1 for EVK daughter board 26 Figure 23 Firmware burning interface 2 for EVK daug...

Page 6: ...ided by Telink while customer needs to make the mechanical structure suitable for DUT Device Under Test and connect cables according to the guide in this document A set of Test Bench mainly contains the following hardware resources 1 A Main Board provided by Telink Figure 1 shows the correct direction to place the Main board Figure 1 Top view of Main board 2 Six EVK daughter boards provided by Tel...

Page 7: ...d provided by Telink It s pin to pin compatible with EVK daughter board and serves to supply power for test system Figure 3 Power board 4 A Display board provided by Telink Its top side contains six groups of LEDs and six independent start buttons while the bottom side contains six connectors a Top view T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 8: ...h contains a HDMI connector and soldering points so that each test site of Main board can be connected with a DUT via a thimble board Figure 5 shows an example of thimble board Figure 5 Thimble board 6 Six PCB Antenna boards and six RF cables provided by Telink as shown in Figure 6 Figure 6 PCB antenna board and RF cable T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 9: ...d via a rainbow cable thus it s connected to corresponding GPIO and Power of an EVK daughter board via HDMI interface of thimble board The buzzer modules are used for Amic test Each buzzer board should be placed as close to corresponding Amic as possible Do not contact buzzer board with Amic directly and there should be no obstacle between them Note Buzzer boards are only supplied for DUT with MIC...

Page 10: ...embly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3 2 AN 18071200 E1 9 Ver 1 0 0 Figure below shows the system connection chart Figure 8 System connection chart T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 11: ...the PCB antenna supplied by Telink Figure 9 Telink PCB antenna board Customer needs to make sliding blocks as shown in Figure 10 which can fix the PCB antennas The sliding blocks are used for distance debugging between the PCB antennas and PCBAs DUTs to guarantee test result consistency Figure 10 Sliding block to fix PCB antenna Figure 11 shows dimensions in mm of the PCB antenna supplied by Telin...

Page 12: ... 1 0 0 2 2 Hardware assembly Connect six EVK daughter boards EVK0 EVK5 and Power board with corresponding connector location on the bottom side of the Main board as shown in Figure 13 Figure 12 Top view of Main board EVK0 EVK2 EVK4 Power NC EVK1 EVK3 EVK5 T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 13: ...13 Assembly chart on the bottom side of Main board Note that USB interfaces of the EVK daughter boards as well as power interface of the Power board should be placed towards the outside direction of the Main board Power board EVK0 EVK1 EVK2 EVK3 EVK4 EVK5 NC Main board T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 14: ...n the Main board contains HDMI connector connector A flange plate and connector B from top to bottom Connector A and B are featured with dual rows 2 54mm spacing and 2x12pin Telink adopts a HDMI cable to connect a thimble board with HDMI connector on corresponding test site of the Main board and adopts a gray flat cable to connect a Display board with corresponding connector B of the Main board Pl...

Page 15: ...oard Each site e g Site0 in Figure 16 on the Display board contains a mistake proof connector marked as B featured with dual rows 2 54mm spacing and 2x12pin In Figure 16 Site0 is taken as an example to show the mark of connection points on each test site of the Display board G W R Y and Button indicate connection point Green LED White LED Red LED Yellow LED independent start button respectively Fi...

Page 16: ...D BAT SWM SWS P45 Wakeup GPIO Note Wakeup test supports two methods including timer wakeup and GPIO wakeup 1 If using timer wakeup it s not needed to connect P45 of thimble board with DUT s wakeup GPIO 2 If using GPIO wakeup it s needed to connect P45 of thimble board with DUT s wakeup GPIO If DUT is a device board with OTP up to five cables should be connected between a thimble board and a DUT Ta...

Page 17: ...t as needed Figure 17 shows cable connection chart Note Buzzer boards are only supplied for DUT with MIC and not contained in the hardware resources by default 2 3 5 Cable connection between Main board and Display board Telink provides six gray flat cables Connector B on each test site of the Main board connection points Green LED Red LED White LED Yellow LED Button Independent start button GND sh...

Page 18: ...O Figure 17 Cable connection chart 2 3 7 Other cable connection The Power board should be connected with power to supply power for test system Each EVK daughter board should be connected with an USB interface of USB hub via an USB cable The USB hub should be connected with PC via an USB cable User can burn firmware for EVK daughter boards and observe test result via the EvkMonitor tool on PC side ...

Page 19: ...igure 18 1x6 Test system 3 2 Figure 19 Cable connection sketch of Main board Main Board Connect connector B with gray flat cable Connect EVK with USB hub Connect HDMI connector with HDMI cable Connect flange plate with RF cable Connect USB hub with PC USB USB hub T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 20: ...ection of Display Antenna Thimble board and DUT thimble Connect Thimble board with HDMI cable Connect PCB Antenna with RF cable Connect Display board with gray flat cable Connect Thimble board with DUT thimble via STP cables Connect Thimble board with Buzzer board via rainbow cable T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 21: ...Tx power for example the data log is shown as follows Site NO Board NO Channel TX Test Offset RX Test IEEE Address 1 star 2392 100 34 2 2495 9 1st ok 2392 100 26 6 92 54 0x8a003a30 2495 100 26 12 100 54 2nd ok 2392 100 29 9 96 62 0x8a003a36 2495 100 27 4 100 54 2 star 2392 100 29 1 2495 100 32 7 1st ok 2392 100 23 4 100 53 0x8a1019ec 2495 100 25 12 100 54 2nd ok 2392 100 23 1 100 54 0x8a1019f2 249...

Page 22: ...100 25 6 100 54 6 star 2392 96 33 2 2495 1st ok 2392 100 28 2 100 56 0x88403d0a 2495 100 26 7 100 54 2nd ok 2392 100 26 13 100 54 0x88403d11 2495 100 26 6 100 54 If the rejected products with low RF Tx power output high power on some Site or even pass test by tuning height of external PCB antennas RF energy can be effectively adjusted to keep consistency of test result To weaken RF energy increase...

Page 23: ...nk test bench firmware folder is generally named as BLE_System_V3 2_xxx The structure of the BLE_System_V3 2_xxx folder is shown as below DB This folder contains db files Sch This folder contains schematics cable connection illustration and etc The structure of the Script folder is shown as below 1 platform This folder contains project files E g 1 2 3 4 T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 24: ... Jig test script to determine PCBA test items product ini EVK product information to determine PCBA RF test frequency point and ID boot bin Image file to download into PCBA finally 2 uart Double click uart bat to open uart window and display real time log for the convenience of test status check Only one uart window is allowed at the same time T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 25: ...er 1 0 0 3 conti_test_uart bat Double click the file a uart window will pop up data won t be available on the window but only saved in log txt under this directory for convenience of analysis 4 Monitor This folder contains the EvkMonitor tool on PC side T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 26: ...taken as an example to show how to burn firmware to EVK daughter board First connect the EVK daughter board e g EVK0 with PC via an USB cable as shown in Figure 21 Note To burn firmware for EVK daughter board only the target board should be connected with PC while other Sites must be disconnected from PC Figure 21 Connection chart between EVK daughter board and PC Then double click the EvkMonitor ...

Page 27: ...arget project folder i e the project under platform in the pop out window The selected project path will be available in the box next to the Select Project Folder button test script and product configuration information files will be available in the test tls and product ini editing window respectively Figure 23 Firmware burning interface 2 for EVK daughter board test tls product ini T e l i n k f...

Page 28: ... The log window keeps scrolling until it s as shown in the figure below Now the EVK daughter board EVK0 is already burned with evk_testbench bin test tls product ini id and other bin files in the folder Power cycle the EVK daughter board then it s configured as Site0 of Jig1 and ready for use Firmware burning steps for other Sites of Jig1 are similar except that Evk number varies among 0 5 Sites o...

Page 29: ...en the software interface If a prompt information of NO usb device pops up as shown below it indicates communication problem such as USB cable connection with EVK hub and PC though software interface still pops up user must check and make sure the connection is OK then restart the software After the software is started properly the interface is shown as below Figure 24 EvkMonitor tool interface 1 ...

Page 30: ...the File menu as shown in mark 4 of Figure 24 a window to set the storage path for database files will pop up Select the storage path as needed input file name and then click the Open button Test result will be automatically stored under the directory by the software Note Only storage path and file name in English are allowed otherwise it will invalidate the database creation start Click the start...

Page 31: ...ure above indicates the state of Success The figure above indicates the state of Failure For convenience of subsequent maintenance it s highly recommended to mark the error items and classify them data As shown in mark 8 of Figure 24 it serves to display test result Please refer to Appendix 1 Test Item List On PC Software EvkMonitor for details about test items and corresponding maintenance sugges...

Page 32: ...t Jig2 Site0 i e EVK0 with PC via an USB cable Note Only the target board should be connected with PC while other Sites must be disconnected from PC Double click the EvkMonitor exe under the folder BLE_System_V3 2_xxx Script Monitor Click download under the menu Evk to open the burning interface To update firmware only it s not needed to modify test tls and product ini for the EVK daughter board T...

Page 33: ... calculated by the bin file will be available in the box next to the MD5 2 Click the Download button The target bin file automatically replaces the previous boot bin under the project directory and it will be burned into the EVK daughter board After firmware is burned user can check if the firmware is successfully updated in the EVK daughter board by clicking the Check boot bin button The result w...

Page 34: ...AN 18071200 E1 33 Ver 1 0 0 After the firmware for Jig2 Site0 is successfully updated power cycle the EVK daughter board then it s ready for use Similarly firmware can be updated for each Site of Jig2 as well as each Site of other Jigs T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 35: ...rarily mark it as rejected product and wait for subsequent analysis 3 TpLow cap value 4 TxHiCnt tx high frequency counting value power frequency offset current test EVK receives packets transmitted by DUT at high frequency point and thus to test DUT Tx performance at high frequency point Test parameters are DUT Tx packet number DUT Tx power DUT Tx frequency offset and DUT Tx current successively c...

Page 36: ...est parameters are EVK Tx packet number EVK Tx power and EVK Tx current successively cnt num 16 RxHiPower rf energy 17 RxHiCurrent current value 18 CancleFlashProtection cancel flash protection Cancel DUT flash write protection for following flash erase and test 0 always Flash related Maybe soldering problem re solder pins related to Flash 19 FlashZero set flash as 0 0xff Write DUT flash with all ...

Page 37: ...rr err address if ok it s 0 Flash related Maybe soldering problem re solder pins related to Flash 28 WriteID write id part of ieee id write ID information into DUT flash id IEEE address to verify Jig status Index 27 is fixed value Index 28 is dynamically increasing value 29 WriteBytes write bytes part of ieee id write specific information into DUT flash id 30 FlashProtect protect flash carry out w...

Page 38: ... cap value 4 TxHiCnt tx high frequency counting value power frequency offset current test EVK receives packets transmitted by DUT at high frequency point and thus to test DUT Tx performance at high frequency point Test parameters are DUT Tx packet number DUT Tx power DUT Tx frequency offset and DUT Tx current successively cnt num 5 TxHiPower rf energy 6 TxHiFreoffset frequency offset 7 TxHiCurrent...

Page 39: ... EVK at high frequency point and thus to test DUT Rx performance at high frequency point Test parameters are EVK Tx packet number EVK Tx power and EVK Tx current successively cnt num 16 RxHiPower rf energy 17 RxHiCurrent current value 18 DsSlpCur deep sleep current wakeup suspend current wakeup test Make DUT enter low power mode deep sleep suspend and then wake it up via EVK thus to test current i...

Page 40: ...ite bin file into DUT OTP 24 WriteID write ID information into DUT OTP 25 WriteConfigPara Write specific configuration information into DUT OTP 26 CheckFW Check the contents of DUT OTP to confirm FW burning result 27 Load load status test connection between EVK and DUT No para Contact problem Check contact between thimble and PCBA T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 41: ...50cm Thimble board 6 C1T42A19_V3 1 Buzzer board 6 C1T64A3_V2 0 Not supplied by default Only supplied for DUT with MIC STP Shielded Twisted Pair cable 1 2 cord RV0 5 1 2m External antenna board 6 ANT_01 Long RF cable 6 SMA90 SMA90 cable 30cm Display board 1 C1T42A19_V2 2 FC 40P gray flat cable 6 2 end 2 54mm 2 12 28AWG 105 Grey 50cm 18P rainbow cable 1 18 cord 16AWG 1m Power adapter 1 Lenovo ADP 90...

Page 42: ... board Figure 25 Pins on test site of Main board GND 3V3DUT SWM SMA Red LED Green LED White LED Yellow LED Button GND GND PIN05 PIN55 PIN53 PIN51 PIN49 PIN46 PIN27 PIN02 PIN56 PIN54 PIN52 PIN50 PIN48 PIN45 PIN26 VPP PIN34 PIN30 PIN29 PIN23 PIN10 5VDUT NC NC NC NC NC NC NC NC NC NC NC NC NC NC NC NC T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 43: ...for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3 2 AN 18071200 E1 42 Ver 1 0 0 Notes 1 In Figure 25 NC indicates no connection 2 Test pins on connector A should be connected by using STP Shielded Twisted Pair cables T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 44: ...ystem 3 2 AN 18071200 E1 43 Ver 1 0 0 Appendix 4 Dimension chart of Main board Thimble board Display board EVK daughter board and Buzzer board Figure 26 Dimension chart of Main board Figure 27 Dimension chart of Thimble board T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 45: ...And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3 2 AN 18071200 E1 44 Ver 1 0 0 Figure 28 Dimension chart of Display board Figure 29 Dimension chart of EVK daughter board T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

Page 46: ...Assembly And Maintenance Manual for Telink BLE 1x6 Test System 3 2 AN 18071200 E1 45 Ver 1 0 0 Figure 30 Dimension chart of Buzzer board T e l i n k f o r c u s t o m e r ...

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