Sierra Wireless AirPrime EM7700, Hardware Integration Manual

AirPrime EM7700 Hardware Integration Guide

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MC8xxx

Any of the following GSM/UMTS AirPrime embedded modules: MC8700/

MC8704/MC8705/MC8790/MC8790V/MC8791V/MC8792V/MC8795V/
MC8801

MHz

MegaHertz = 10E6 Hertz (Hertz = 1 cycle/second)

MIO

Module Input/Output

MPE

Maximum Permissible Exposure—the level of radiation to which a person 
may be exposed without hazardous effect or adverse biological changes

OTA

Over-The-Air or Radiated through the antenna

PCS

Personal Communication System - PCS spans the 1.9 GHz radio spectrum

RF

Radio Frequency

RMS

Root Mean Square

SA

Selective Availability

Sensitivity (Audio)

Measure of lowest power signal that the receiver can measure

Sensitivity (RF)

Measure of lowest power signal at the receiver input that can provide a 
prescribed BER/BLER/SNR value at the receiver output.

SIM

Subscriber Identity Module

SNR

Signal to Noise Ratio

SOF

Start of Frame - a USB function

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

UDK

Universal Development Kit (PCI Express Mini Card Dev Kit)

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

USB

Universal Serial Bus

USIM

Universal Subscriber Identity Module

VCC

Supply voltage (3.3 V for these devices)

WCDMA

Wideband Code Division Multiple Access—In this document, the term 
“UMTS” is used instead of “WCDMA”.

XIM

In this document, XIM is used as part of the contact identifiers for the USIM 
interface (XIM_VCC, XIM_CLK, etc.).

Table B-1: Acronyms and definitions

Acronym or term

Definition