overview

The GE863-PRO³ is an innovation to the quad-band, RoHS compliant GE863 product family which includes a powerful ARM9™ processor core exclusively dedicated to customer applications. The concept of colocating a powerful processor core with the GSM/GPRS engine allows developers to host their application directly.

The PRO³ incorporates much of the necessary hardware for communi­cating microcontroller solutions, including the critical element of memory, significant simplification of the bill of material, vendor management, and logistics effort are achieved.

Additionally, this packaging of powerful components virtually eliminates the need for regulatory re-certifications typically required when key components such as memory are changed.

The PRO³ is offered in a Ball-Grid-Array (BGA) package enabling very low profile and small product size required for the design of extremely compact applications. Since connectors are eliminated, the solution cost is significantly reduced compared to conventional mounting concepts. With its low profile design, dedicated 8/64 MB SDRAM, 4 MB serial flash, and its extended programming capabilities in C++, the Telit GE863-PRO³ is the ideal hardware platform for complete and compact customer solutions.

The GE863-PRO³ was designed to simplify connectivity through the availability of interfaces such as SPI, IIC, SD/MMC and USB (Host/Device). Telit offers a vast collection of reference designs enabling use of the PRO³ with external peripherals such as camera, keyboard, display, Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®, SmartCard, SD Card, Ethernet, ZigBee® and GPS. Application development is accomplished easily given Telit’s continued commitment to open systems. With the use of LINUX (optional), developers have access to an extensive library of drivers for different peripherals and to complete development environments.

All Telit modules, support Over-the-Air firmware update by means Premium FOTA Management.By embedding RedBend’s vCurrent® agent, a proven and battle-tested technology powering hundreds of millions of cellular handsets world-wide Telit is able to update its products by transmitting only a delta file, which represents the difference between one firmware version and another.

As a part of Telit’s corporate policy of environmental protection, all products comply with the RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) directive of the EU (EU Directive 2002/95/EG).

features

• Quad-band EGSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
• Control via AT commands according to GSM 27.05, 27.07 plus Telit enhancements
• Supply voltage range: 3,4 - 4,2 V DC
• Dimensions: 41,4 x 31,4 x 3,6 mm
• Weight: 9 grams
• BGA package
• Temp. range: -30°C to +80°C
• 90+9 general purpose I/O ports
• Analog package
• 4 A/D with A/D trigger and 6 PWM D/A converters
• 1 USB device and 2 USB host
• 2 SPI buses each with up to 7 slave devices
• 1 IIC interface
• 1 SSC (I2S) digital audio interface
• 1 SD/MMC card and SAM/SmartCard ISO7816 interface
• 1 image sensor interface ITU-B 601/656
• 6 USARTs and 1 UART
• Jamming Detection & Report
• Embedded TCP/IP stack, including TCP, IP, UDP, SMTP and FTP protocol
• Embedded SSL encryption
• Serial port multiplexer GSM 7.10
• SIM access profile
• "Easy Scan" automatic scan over GSM frequencies (also without SIM card)
• ARM processor
  • ARM9^TM core 220 MIPS
  • Independent from GSM engine
  • Linux operating system (optional)
  • Cross compilation on PC
  • 64 MB SDRAM plus 4 MB serial flash
  • Over-the-air application software update

hardware requirements

• GSM antenna, PCB mount

software requirements

• Telit GE863-PRO3 Development Environment (Yagarto, OOCDLink)

ordering information

• manufacturer: Telit Wireless Solutions
• manufacturer part name(s): GE863-PRO³ (GSM embedded)
• manufacturer part code(s): GE863PR3

All Telit devices and their corresponding develpment environment are available from stock or on request (typically within 2 weeks).

documentation

• manufacturer part page
• documentation archive