Specifications

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ALAS66A Hardware Interface Overview
1.2 Key Features at a Glance
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Special Features
Antenna SAIC (Single Antenna Interference Cancellation) / DARP (Downlink
Advanced Receiver Performance)
Rx Diversity (receiver type 3i - 64-QAM) / MIMO
HORxD (Higher Order Receive Diversity) with up to 4 antennas
GPIO Linux controlled:
18 I/O pins of the application interface programmable as GPIO.
External antenna switch 3 GPIOs permanently configured as optional external antenna switch inter-
face.
Emergency call handling EU eCall 3GPP Release 10 compliant (modem and GNSS)
ERA compliant (modem and GNSS)
ADC inputs Linux controlled:
Analog-to-Digital Converter with unbalanced analog inputs for example for
(external) antenna diagnosis
JTAG JTAG interface for debug purposes
eMMC Linux controlled:
Embedded Multi-Media Card interface
PCIe Linux controlled:
PCIe interface
Evaluation kit
Evaluation module ALAS66A module soldered onto a dedicated PCB.
Feature Implementation