Globalstar ST150 - Table of Contents

9150-0125-01 R-4
ST150M User Manual
Confidential & Proprietary Information
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CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES .......................................................................................................................... 7
1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................... 8
1.1 PURPOSE .......................................................................................................................................................... 8
1.2 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS .......................................................................................................................................... 8
1.2.1 GLOBALSTAR DOCUMENTS ........................................................................................................................ 8
1.2.2 EXTERNAL REFERENCES .......................................................................................................................... 8
1.3 DESCRIPTION .................................................................................................................................................... 9
1.3.1 Feature List ........................................................................................................................................... 9
1.4 CERTIFICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................... 11
2 APPLICATION ....................................................................................................................... 12
2.1 THEORY OF OPERATION FOR GLOBALSTAR COMMERCIAL IoT ................................................................................................. 12
2.2 QUICK START/CONFIGURATION GUIDELINES ....................................................................................................................... 13
2.3 BLOCK DIAGRAM .................................................................................................................................................... 14
2.4 CORE COMPONENTS ............................................................................................................................................... 14
2.4.1 Nordic SoC ........................................................................................................................................... 14
2.4.2 ASIC satellite transmitter ....................................................................................................................... 14
2.4.3 GNSS receiver ...................................................................................................................................... 15
2.4.4 Memory................................................................................................................................................ 15
2.4.5 Accelerometer ...................................................................................................................................... 15
2.4.6 Program and debug .............................................................................................................................. 15
2.4.7 DC Supply ............................................................................................................................................ 15
3 POWER MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................... 16
3.1 Power Management High Level Overview .......................................................................................................... 16
4 PERIPHERALS ......................................................................................................................... 18
4.1 Near-Field Communication (NFC) ...................................................................................................................... 18
4.2 GPIO pin peripherals ....................................................................................................................................... 18
4.2.1 GPIO .................................................................................................................................................... 19
4.2.2 Comparator .......................................................................................................................................... 19
4.2.3 PDM - Pulse Density modulation interface .............................................................................................. 20
4.2.4 PPI - Programmable Peripheral Interconnect .......................................................................................... 20
4.2.5 PWM - Pulse Width Modulation .............................................................................................................. 20
4.2.6 QDEC - Quadrature Decoder .................................................................................................................. 20
4.2.7 RTC - Real Time Counter ....................................................................................................................... 21
4.2.8 SPI - Serial Peripheral Interface ............................................................................................................. 22
4.2.9 UART - Universal asynchronous receiver / transmitter ............................................................................. 22
4.3 Using and Enabling Peripheral Devices .............................................................................................................. 23
5 HARDWARE LAYOUT/REFERENCE DESIGN ....................................................................................... 26
5.1 Pin Assignments .............................................................................................................................................. 26
5.2 Reference Circuitry .......................................................................................................................................... 30
5.2.1 PCB Guidelines ..................................................................................................................................... 30