
SARA-R5 series - System integration manual
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1.9
Data communication interfaces
SARA-R5 series modules provide the following serial communication interfaces:
•
UART interfaces, available for communications with host application processor. See section
•
USB 2.0 compliant interface, available for diagnostic only. See section
•
SPI interfaces, available for communications with external SPI devices and for diagnostic. See
section
•
SDIO interface, available for communications with external SDIO devices. See section
•
DDC (I2C bus compatible) interface, available for communications with external I2C devices. See
section
1.9.1
UART interfaces
1.9.1.1
UART features
SARA-R5 series modules include 1.8 V unbalanced asynchronous serial interfaces (UART) for
communications with external host application processor.
UART can be configured by dedicated AT command (see the SARA-R5 series AT commands
manual
, +USIO AT command) in the following variants:
•
Variant 0
(default configuration), consisting in a single UART interface on
RXD
,
TXD
,
CTS
,
RTS
,
DTR
,
RI
pins, supporting:
o
AT commands
o
data communication
o
multiplexer protocol functionality (see
o
FW update by means of FOAT
o
FW update by means of the u-blox EasyFlash tool (see the firmware update application
note
The following lines are provided:
o
data lines (
RXD
as output,
TXD
as input)
o
hardware flow control lines (
CTS
as output,
RTS
as input)
o
modem status and control lines (
DTR
as input,
RI
as output)
•
Variant 1
, consisting in a single UART interface on
RXD
,
TXD
,
CTS
,
RTS
,
DTR
,
DSR
,
DCD
,
RI
pins,
supporting:
o
AT commands
o
data communication
o
multiplexer protocol functionality (see
o
FW update by means of FOAT
o
FW update by means of the u-blox EasyFlash tool (see the firmware update application
note
The following lines are provided:
o
data lines (
RXD
as output,
TXD
as input)
o
hardware flow control lines (
CTS
as output,
RTS
as input)
o
modem status and control lines (
DTR
as input,
DSR
as output,
DCD
as output,
RI
as output)