@defgroup boards_firefly Firefly Board @ingroup boards @brief Support for the Firefly board

Zolertia Firefly platform

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The Firefly platform (Revision A) is a IoT Hardware development platform based on TI's CC2538 system on chip (SoC), featuring an ARM Cortex-M3 with 512KiB flash, 32KiB RAM, double RF interface (Sub-1GHz CC1200 RF transceiver), and the following goodies:

ISM 2.4-GHz IEEE 802.15.4 & Zigbee compliant.
ISM 868-, 915-, 920-, 950-MHz ISM/SRD Band.
AES-128/256, SHA2 Hardware Encryption Engine.
ECC-128/256, RSA Hardware Acceleration Engine for Secure Key Exchange.
Power consumption down to 150nA using our shutdown mode.
Flashing over BSL without requiring to press any button to enter bootloader mode.
Built-in battery charger (500mA), Energy Harvesting and Solar Panels to be connected to standards LiPo batteries.
Power input with 2.3-5.1VDC depending on battery or USB supply

Port Features

In terms of hardware support, the following drivers have been implemented for the CC2538 System-on-Chip:

UART
Random number generator
Low Power Modes
General-Purpose Timers
I2C/SPI library
LEDs
Buttons
RF 2.4GHz built-in in CC2538

And under work or pending at CC2538 base CPU:

Built-in core temperature and battery sensor.
CC1200 sub-1GHz radio interface.
Micro-SD external storage.
ADC
USB (in CDC-ACM).
uDMA Controller.

Requirements

Toolchain to compile RIOT for the CC2538
Drivers to enable your host to communicate with the platform
Built-in BSL programming over USB using cc2538-bsl (included)

Install a Toolchain

The toolchain used to build is arm-gcc, to check if it is currently installed run:

$ arm-none-eabi-gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: arm-none-eabi
Configured with: /scratch/julian/lite-respin/eabi/src/gcc-4.3/configure
...
(skip)
...
Thread model: single
gcc version 4.3.2 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2008q3-66)

Else install from https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded

Drivers

The Firefly features a CP2104 serial-to-USB module, the driver is commonly found in most OS, but if required it can be downloaded from https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers

For the CC2538EM (USB CDC-ACM)

The Firefly has built-in support for USB 2.0 USB, Vendor and Product IDs are the following:

VID 0x0451
PID 0x16C8

On Linux and macOS this is straightforward, on windows you need to install the following driver:

https://github.com/alignan/lufa/blob/remote-zongle/LUFA/CodeTemplates/WindowsINF/LUFA%20CDC-ACM.inf

And replace the IDs accordingly.

Device Enumerations

For the UART, serial line settings are 115200 8N1, no flow control.

Once all drivers have been installed correctly:

On windows, devices will appear as a virtual COM port.

On Linux, devices will appear under /dev/.

On macOS, /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUARTx.

On Linux:

Firefly over CP2104: ttyUSB0
Firefly over USB driver (in CDC-ACM): ttyACMn (n=0, 1, ....)

Emulator

To emulate this board you need an updated version of renode installed, at least version 1.9.

BOARD=firefly make all emulate

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