This SiP includes the Sequans
Monarch 3330 chipset
SKY66430-11 / SQN66430-11 SiP
Evaluation Board User Manual
V1.2
Страница 1: ...This SiP includes the Sequans Monarch 3330 chipset SKY66430 11 SQN66430 11 SiP Evaluation Board User Manual V1 2 ...
Страница 2: ...nect to https account truphone com register to create your Truphone account and activate your SIM card from the Truphone web portal You will then be able to extend your data plan if needed 2 2 Evaluation Board Software Dependencies The evaluation board requires external software to help you perform some operations Mandatory Serial Terminal Emulator under Windows necessary to interact with the eval...
Страница 3: ... and Product Information are Subject to Change Without Notice September 2 2020 3 SKY66430 11 SQN66430 11 SiP Evaluation Board User Manual V1 2 2 3 Evaluation Board Connectors Figure 1 SKY66430 11 Evaluation Board Connector Diagram Top View Note For jumper default settings please refer to the appendix Figure 2 SKY66430 11 Evaluation Board Connector Diagram Bottom View ...
Страница 4: ...B port X Figure 3 SKY66430 11Board Preparation 3 2 Drivers Installation When you plug the USB connector for the first time in your PC you need to wait for approximately one minute to allow the drivers to be automatically installed on Windows The USB connects the on board UART USB bridge IC to provide ACM interfaces virtual COM in order to access the board through UART You should see a popup window...
Страница 5: ...under Windows and their mapping and configuration to the evaluation board 3 4 1 COM Ports Overview Tables Table 1 USB Port X Table 2 USB Port Y IMPORTANT COM ports cannot be shared between two different applications at the same time One of the applications will be in error 3 5 Configuring and Verifying Installed COM Ports After COM drivers are installed open the Windows device manager expand Ports...
Страница 6: ...rd you need to connect your Serial Terminal to the UART 0 port corresponding to COMa on Windows enumeration Please refer to the table in Overview of the COM Ports on page 5 to determine the exact COM port on your PC Configure the correct Baud rate 115200 and the other settings in the terminal Figure 7 Tera Term Serial Port Setup Once the correct setting is done you should be able to start sending ...
Страница 7: ...1 SQN66430 11 SiP Evaluation Board User Manual V1 2 4 2 Console Terminal Connecting a serial terminal to the COM port mapped on UART 2 of the evaluation board will allow you to access to the evaluation board console The console is a maintenance window and not necessary for regular operations However it is useful to have during maintenance phases such as firmware upgrade or to observe the boot mess...
Страница 8: ...d with a SIM card In order to check the supported operators please refer to the Truphone web site 5 1 List of Supported Operators The list of the operators is predefined in the software and automatically configured when inserting their SIM card is presented in Connecting the Board to a Network on page 9 The modem can support up to 18 LTE bands Scanning all the bands takes several minutes In order ...
Страница 9: ...card state From the terminal enter AT CFUN 4 AT CPIN The SIM card will be read when the UE is in CFUN 1 or CFUN 4 states The response will be CPIN code code Ready SIM card is present and unlocked code SIM PIN Modem is waiting SIM PIN to be entered code SIM PUK Modem is waiting SIM PUK to be given or ERROR when SIM is not inserted or not detected From the terminal enter AT CEREG 1 This command will...
Страница 10: ...trength When your board is connected to a network you can check the signal strength and characteristics through the following AT command AT CSQ Response will be CSQ rssi ber where rssi represents the signal strength at the antenna and ber is the bit error rate in Table 3 rssi Conversion Table Table 4 ber Conversion Table rssi Parameter Signal Description with RSSI Value Range 0 9 Marginal 113 dBm ...
Страница 11: ...you can attempt to do a ping to a remote server using AT PING Example AT PING sequans com Response PING 184 106 55 83 190 39 PING 184 106 55 83 200 39 PING 184 106 55 83 200 39 PING 184 106 55 83 200 39 Documentation for PING as well as other AT commands allowing to open TCP UDP sockets send data requests over HTTP or connect to an MQTT broker can be found in the AT commands Reference Manual see 1...
Страница 12: ...xx The SFU User Manual Monarch_SFU_UserGuide RevX pdf The new firmware to upload on the evaluation board it is a file with the dup extension e g SQN66430 REV2_B1B2B3B4B5B8B12B13B14B17B18B19B20B25B26B28B66B85_BBA1 RFA3 SKY6643011_LR5 4 1 0 49576 dup The first time you use SFU you need to install it on your PC Figure 10 Sequans Firmware Upgrade SFU Program Note The SFU program program operates on UA...
Страница 13: ...e eNB is set to a proper level Check that there is no additional attenuator inserted in the RF cable chain Check network coverage No eNB detected Check that the eNB simulator power is ON and that the cell signal generation is turned ON The UE doesn t find the cell signal due to incorrect frequency value Check that the band earcfn value set on the eNB simulator side matches with the band capabiliti...
Страница 14: ...ucts and Product Information are Subject to Change Without Notice 205375C 10 0 Appendix Below is the default jumper setting for the SKY66430 evaluation board It is set up at the factory However if a jumper gets knocked off during shipment or if you are instructed by technical support to change a setting during a maintenance session the following diagram shows the proper jumper settings Figure 11 D...
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