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TOBY-L2 and MPCI-L2 series - System Integration Manual
UBX-13004618 - R26 System description
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The module automatically enters the low power idle-mode whenever possible but it wakes up to active-mode
according to any required activity related to the network (e.g. for the periodic paging reception described in section
1.5.1.5, or for any other required RF signal transmission or reception) or any other required activity related to the
functions / interfaces of the module.
The AT+UPSV=3 configuration can be enabled regardless the flow control setting on UART. In particular, the HW
flow control can be enabled (AT&K3) or disabled (AT&K0) on UART during this configuration. In both cases, with
the AT+UPSV=3 configuration, the CTS line indicates when the module is either able or not able to accept data
from the DTE over the UART.
When the AT+UPSV=3 configuration is enabled, the DTR input line can still be used by the DTE to control the
module behavior according to AT&D command configuration (see u-blox AT commands Manual [3]).
Wake up via data reception
The UART wake up via data reception consists of a special configuration of the module TXD input line that causes
the system wake-up when a low-to-high transition occurs on the TXD input line. In particular, the UART is enabled
and the module switches from the low power idle-mode to active-mode within ~5 ms from the first character
received: this is the system “wake up time”.
As a consequence, the first character sent by the DTE when the UART is disabled (i.e. the wake up character) is
not a valid communication character even if the wake up via data reception configuration is active, because it
cannot be recognized, and the recognition of the subsequent characters is guaranteed only after the complete
system wake-up (i.e. after ~5 ms).
The TXD input line is configured to wake up the system via data reception in the following case:
AT+UPSV=1 is set with HW flow control disabled
The TXD input line on “01”, “60” and TOBY-L201-02S modules product versions is additionally configured to
wake up the system via data reception in the following cases:
AT+UPSV=2 is set with HW flow control disabled, and the RTS line is set OFF
AT+UPSV=3 is set with HW flow control disabled, and the DTR line is set OFF
Figure 24 and Figure 25 show examples of common scenarios and timing constraints:
AT+UPSV=1 power saving configuration is active and the timeout from last data received to idle-mode start is
set to 2000 frames (AT+UPSV=1,2000)
Hardware flow control is disabled
Figure 24 shows the case where the module UART is disabled and only a wake-up is forced. In this scenario the
only character sent by the DTE is the wake-up character; as a consequence, the DCE module UART is disabled
when the timeout from last data received expires (2000 frames without data reception, as the default case).
Wake up character
Not recognized by DCE
OFF
ON
DCE UART is enabled for 2000 GSM frames (~9.2 s)
time
Wake up time: ~5 ms
time
TXD input
UART
OFF
ON
Figure 24: Wake-up via data reception without further communication