User's Manual Part 1

Installation and Set Up Chapter 3
OEMV Family Installation and Operation User Manual Rev 5B 37
• Failure to follow accepted ESD handling practices could cause damage to the OEMV card.
• Warranty may be voided if equipment is damaged by ESD.
Mounting the Printed Circuit Board
The OEMV family cards are OEM products and therefore the printed circuit board is provided without
a housing structure. This allows flexibility in creating a mounting environment to suit particular
product and marketing requirements. The mounting and enclosure should provide the following:
• mounting of external connectors
• protection from hostile physical environments (for example, rain, snow, sand, salt,
water, extreme temperatures)
• electromagnetic shielding to protect from hostile RF environments (for example,
nearby transmitters)
• electromagnetic shielding so that the final product itself conforms to RF emissions
specifications
 Integrator note: The card can not pass emissions testing by itself. It must be in an enclosure.
For example, the ProPak-V3 passes regulatory emissions as shown in the Notice starting on
Page 10. For more information on emissions testing, please refer to the regulatory body in
your geographic area. For example, in North America that is the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) and in Europe the Conformité Européenne (CE).
• protection from ESD (see Appendix B, Electrostatic Discharge Control (ESD)
Practices starting on Page 186)
The OEMV card can be held in place by screws when used in a custom assembly. Please see Appendix
A, Technical Specifications starting on Page 129 for mechanical drawings.
Preparing the Data, Signal & Power Harness
The wiring harness serves the following interconnect functions:
• provide access to the serial communications ports
• provide access to input and output timing strobes
• provide power input(s)
• provide access to control signals
For all OEMV cards, the power, status, and data inputs and outputs are accessed from a single
connector. Therefore, the harness must be designed to mate with this connector.
As shown in Figures 10, 11 and 12, the OEMV cards use a 20, 24 or 40-pin header for the data, power,
and status signals. The RF input is a female MCX connector. An external oscillator input is available
on the OEMV-2 and OEMV-3 dual frequency cards where the oscillator input is also a female MMCX
connector. The pin outs for these connectors are specified in Appendix A, Technical Specifications
starting on Page 129 for the OEMV-1, OEMV-1G, OEMV-2 and OEMV-3 while their manufacturers’
part numbers are in Section D.5 on Page 213.