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APPLICABILITY TABLE

PRODUCT

GM862-GPS
GC864-QUAD V2
GC864-DUAL V2
UC864-E
UC864-G
UC864-WD
UC864-WDU
GE863-GPS
GE863-SIM
GE863-PRO3
GE864-QUAD V2
GE864-DUAL V2
GE864-QUAD AUTOMOTIVE V2
GE864-QUAD ATEX
GE865-QUAD
GL865-DUAL/QUAD
GE864-GPS
HE910
GE910

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Contents
1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 6
1.1. Scope ....................................................................................................................................... 6
1.2. Audience.................................................................................................................................. 6
1.3. Contact Information, Support .................................................................................................. 6
1.4. Document Organization .......................................................................................................... 7
1.5. Text Conventions .................................................................................................................... 7
1.6. Related Documents ................................................................................................................. 8

2. Overview ........................................................................................................................................ 9

3. Schematics ................................................................................................................................... 11
3.1. SIM Schematic example........................................................................................................ 11
3.2. Component’s Values ............................................................................................................. 12

4. PCB Layout ................................................................................................................................. 13

5. ESD Protection............................................................................................................................ 14
5.1. ESD protection for SIM interface ......................................................................................... 14

6. Dual SIM selection ...................................................................................................................... 15

7. SIM-On-Chip .............................................................................................................................. 19

8. List of acronyms ......................................................................................................................... 21

9. Document History ....................................................................................................................... 22

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1. Introduction

1.1. Scope
Aim of this document is to give basic design guide lines to integrate a SIM holder in
applications that uses Telit modules.

1.2. Audience
This document is intended for Telit customers, who are integrators, about to add SIM holder
functionality on their applications.

1.3. Contact Information, Support

For general contact, technical support, to report documentation errors and to order manuals,
contact Telit Technical Support Center (TTSC) at:

TS-EMEA@telit.com
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Alternatively, use:
http://www.telit.com/en/products/technical-support-center/contact.php
For detailed information about where you can buy the Telit modules or for recommendations
on accessories and components visit:
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To register for product news and announcements or for product questions contact Telit
Technical Support Center (TTSC).
Our aim is to make this guide as helpful as possible. Keep us informed of your comments and
suggestions for improvements.
Telit appreciates feedback from the users of our information.

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1.4. Document Organization

This document contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1: “Introduction” provides a scope for this document, target audience, contact and
support information, and text conventions.

Chapter 2: “Overview” provides a quick SIM contacts explanation.

Chapter 3: “Schematics “ provides connection schematics

Chapter 4: “Layout “ provides layout suggestions

Chapter 5: “ESD Protection “ rovides ESD Protection suggestions

Chapter 6: “Dual SIM selection “ provides suggestions about integration of 2 SIM

Chapter 7: “SIM-On-Chip “ provides suggestions about Sim-On-Chip integration

Chapter 8: “List of acronyms”

1.5. Text Conventions

Danger – This information MUST be followed or catastrophic equipment failure or bodily

injury may occur.

Caution or Warning – Alerts the user to important points about integrating the module, if
these points are not followed, the module and end user equipment may fail or malfunction.

Tip or Information – Provides advice and suggestions that may be useful when
integrating the module.

All dates are in ISO 8601 format, i.e. YYYY-MM-DD.

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1.6. Related Documents

• GM862 Family Hardware User Guide, 1vv0300794
• GC864 Hardware User Guide, 1vv0300733
• GE863 Family Hardware User Guide, 1vv0300783
• GE864 Hardware User Guide, 1vv0300694
• GE865 Hardware User Guide, 1vv0300799
• GE864-QUAD V2 Hardware User Guide, 1vv0300841
• GC864-QUAD V2 Hardware User Guide, 1vv0300874
• HE910 Hardware User Guide, 1vv0300925
• UC864-E_G_WD_E-DUAL Hardware User Guide, 1vv0300766
• GE910 Hardware User Guide 1vv0300962

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2. Overview
In all Telit modules there are five pins for SIM card holder connection; these lines are:

SIMVCC (SIM Power supply)

SIMRST (SIM Reset)
SIMIO (SIM Data)
SIMIN (SIM Presence/Absence)
SIMCLK (SIM Clock)

SIM connection design must take in account these general rules:

1) Data Integrity: standard rules for digital layout and routing must be followed taking in
consideration that SIMCLK has frequency of 3.57 MHz and SIMIO baud rate is greater or
equal than 9600Bps.

2) EMI/EMC: this is a key aspect to consider designing an application based on TELIT

modules with internal antenna and/or without a proper shielded box. Some of these conditions
may occur:
• antenna picks-up digital noise coming from SIM card lines
• antenna radiated field may interfere digital lines
• digital lines (in particular clock) may radiate spurious in the surrounding space

To overcome all these potential problems, connection lines must be kept as short as possible
and shielded and SIM-holder position has to be as far as possible from antenna.
Besides RF bypass capacitors (10 pF ... 33 pF) closed to SIM card SIM-holder are another
good care.

When connection is not short, insertion of 10 … 47 Ohm resistor with 10 ... 33 pF capacitor
(RC filter) is a good caution to improve EMI from SIMCLK line.

On SIMRST and SIMIO lines is allowed to insert 10 ... 100 Ohm resistor with 10 ... 33 pF
capacitor (RC filter) to improve the EMI measurements.

Do not insert resistors on SIMVCC, their use is not supported by SIM electrical interface.

3) ESD: take ESD caution if application based on TELIT module has SIM holder with contacts
reachable from human body. Refer to chapter 5.

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NOTE:
SIM card is detected inserted when SIMIN line is shorted to ground.
If in the application the SIM holder doesn’t foresee the switch for the presence/absence of the
SIM card, the SIMIN line must be connected to ground.

NOTE:
On GL865 there isn’t a dedicated SIMIN pin. To use this it SIMIN pin has to be configured
with AT command AT#SIMINCFG=<GPIO_pin>.

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3. Schematics
This section deals with the recommended schematics for the design of SIM interfaces on the
application boards.

3.1. SIM Schematic example

Figure 1 illustrates in particular how the application side should be designed, and what values the
components should have.

Figure 1

NOTE FOR R1:

For GSM/GPRS and HE910 products, SIMIO doesn't require any pull-up resistor because it is
built in.
For UC864 products special attention should be paid to the value of resistor R1. 3GPP
specifications define that the rise time and the fall time of the IO signal shall not exceed 1 µs.
Resistor R1 is very closely related to the rise time and the fall time of the SIMIO signal. To
verify the appropriate specifications for your design of UC864 products refer to Table 1.

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3.2. Component’s Values

Values reported on Table 1 are based on the UC864-E/G/WD/WDU used in conjunction with the
Telit EVK and representing the deviation by R1 regarding the rise time and the fall time of SIMIO
signal.

1.8V 3.0V
Resistor R1
Rising time max. Falling time max. Rising time max. Falling time max.
[µs] [µs] [µs] [µs]

3GPP spec 1. 000 1.000 1.000 1.000

1 15K 1.225 0.026 1.295 0.150

2 10K 1.008 - 1.058 -

3 8K2 0.900 - 0.903 -

4 6K8 0.793 0.025 0.795 0.015

Table 1

The following Table lists the value of C1 to be adopted with the different products:

Product P/N C1 range (nF)

GM862GPS7yypzzz
GE863GPS7yypzzz
GE863SIM7yypzzz 100 nF
GE863P3x7yypzzz
HE910xxxyyypzzz

GC864xxx0yypzzz
GE864xxx0yypzzz
1000 nF
GE865xxx0yypzzz
GL865xxx0yypzzz

GE910xxxyyypzzz 220 nF

UC864xxxyyypzzz 10 nF

Table 2

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4. PCB Layout
In this section general rules are given on how to place and connect the components on the
PCB in order to obtain the better results on the EMI side.
The placement of the 33 pF filtering capacitors is very important in order to maximize their
effectiveness; the capacitors should be placed as closest as possible to the SIM pins and
intercepting the tracks that goes to the module. Figure 2 and Figure 3 show wrong PCB
designs:

Figure 2 Figure 3

The following Figure 4 shows a better design:

Figure 4

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5. ESD Protection

WARNING:
Do use TVS diodes or varistors to protect Telit modules from Electrostatic discharge.

5.1. ESD protection for SIM interface

The following schematics (Figure 5) are recommended for the SIM interface. A single TVS
diode or varistor can be used on the respective pins and the VTS should clamp at 3.5V and the
total capacity on each line shall be maximum 33pF.

Figure 5

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6. Dual SIM selection

The Telit modules can already support more than one SIM card. The SIM selection circuit,
described below, can be applied to our GSM/GPRS and UC864 modules that provide 2.8V
GPIOs.
It is suggested to use 3 distinct 2.8V GPIOs (X, Y, Z) to have full control of VCCSIM
supplies and SIM selection on the multiplexer.
In the following Figure 6 is showed a schematic example of dual SIM connection.

Figure 6
To enable SIM A:

AT#GPIO=X,0,1
AT#GPIO=Z,1,1
AT#GPIO=Y,0,1
AT#SIMDET=0
(5 seconds of pause)
AT#SIMDET=2

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To enable SIM B:

AT#GPIO=X,1,1
AT#GPIO=Z,0,1
AT#GPIO=Y,1,1
AT#SIMDET=0
(5 seconds of pause)
AT#SIMDET=2

If the user doesn't need SIM hot removal he can ground SIMIN pin on module side as showed
in the example schematic in Figure 7

Figure 7

In this case the AT command sequence change a little as AT#SIMDET has to be set to 1 and
not to 2:

To enable SIM A:

AT#GPIO=X,0,1
AT#GPIO=Z,1,1
AT#GPIO=Y,0,1
AT#SIMDET=0
(5 seconds of pause)
AT#SIMDET=1

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To enable SIM B:

AT#GPIO=X,1,1
AT#GPIO=Z,0,1
AT#GPIO=Y,1,1
AT#SIMDET=0
(5 seconds of pause)
AT#SIMDET=1

NOTE:
These solutions cannot be applied to devices with only 1.8V GPIO such as HE910, since they
cannot correctly drive the Mosfet on SIMVCC. For 1.8V GPIO devices either a level shifter is
required or we suggest using a dedicated component such as the FSA2567 low power dual
SIM Card analog switch as shown in the following example.

NOTE:
These solutions cannot be applied to GM862 and GC864 with SIM holder when internal SIM
holder is used.

NOTE:
The P-Channel MOSFETS should have a Ron typical around 0.5Ω and must never exceed
1Ω.

NOTE:
On GL865 there isn’t a dedicated SIMIN pin and AT#SIMDET=1 is the default value. To use
the configuration showed in Figure 6 the SIMIN pin has to be configured with:
AT#SIMINCFG=<GPIO_pin> (stored in NVM) and AT#SIMDET=2 (stored in the extended
profile AT&P).

The SIM selection circuit, described below, using a dedicated IC such as FSA2567, can be
applied to our GSM/GPRS/3G modules that provide 1.8V GPIOs.
The same AT commands apply as for the two examples preceding.

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NOTE:
This solution cannot be applied to GM862 and GC864 with SIM holder when internal SIM
holder is used.

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7. SIM-On-Chip
In the M2M applications, there are several cases where the SIM Card will never be changed
once installed, also it would be preferable if it shouldn’t be possible to remove it at all;
furthermore the SIM Card is required to work in a more harsh environment with respect to
standard mobile phones SIM Cards. In order to address these kinds of application the SIM On
Chip have been developed; they are basically a special SIM Card chip packaged as a surface
mount assembly device that is then assembled together with the modem at the factory and will
be never removed from the application.
This approach results in a great advantage in terms of long term reliability because the
contacting issues that can arise due to moisture, vibrations and harsh environmental
conditions with standard SIM holders are avoided by design since the SIM On Chip is
soldered on the application PCB.
The Telit modules support the usage of M2M SIM-On-Chip and their usage is exactly the
same as for conventional SIM Cards.
SIM On Chip are interfaced with the same lines as for standard SIM:
SIMVCC
SIMIO
SIMRST
SIMCLK
And shall be connected and decoupled in the same way as the standard SIM Card holder as
shown in the chapter 3.1.
An example of SIM On Chip connection is shown in the following schematic:

For the values of R1 and C1 reference tables 1 and 2.

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Since the SIM On Chip are not removable, it is possible to tie SIMIN to GND and eventually
use the AT command AT#SIMDET to simulate insertion/removal.
Furthermore if the SIM On Chip is shielded inside the application box and cannot be subject
to ESD discharges, the ESD protections can be omitted.
If there is the need to have both a SIM On Chip and a backup SIM Holder, then a dual SIM
approach can be followed and the connections shall be the same as for paragraph 6.

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8. List of acronyms

SIM: Subscriber Identity Module

EMI: Electromagnetic Interference
EMC: Electromagnetic Compatibility
ESD: Electrostatic Discharge
M2M Machine to Machine

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9. Document History

Revision Date Changes

ISSUE#0 2006-09-29 Release First ISSUE# 0
ISSUE#1 2007-09-04 Updated applicability table
ISSUE#2 2009-05-29 Applied new layout
Updated applicability table
ISSUE#3 2010-09-01 Updated capacitor value on SIMVCC
Updated applicability table
ISSUE#4 2010-10-04 Added GL865-DUAL to applicability table
ISSUE#5 2011-06-01 Added Dual SIM selection
Added schematics and layout suggestions
ISSUE#6 2011-02-03 Added HE910 to applicability table
ISSUE#7 2011-02-03 Removed par 3.2; corrected note in par 3.1
ISSUE#8 2012-03-08 Added SIM ON CHIP information, updated par. 6 and 5.1
ISSUE#9 2012-06-19 Added GE910, changed SIM ON CHIP pinout.

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