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.. zephyr:board:: apollo3p_evb

Apollo3 Blue Plus EVB is a board by Ambiq featuring their ultra-low power Apollo3 Blue Plus SoC.

Hardware

  • Apollo3 Blue Plus SoC with up to 96 MHz operating frequency
  • ARM® Cortex®-M4F core
  • 16 kB 2-way Associative/Direct-Mapped Cache per core
  • Up to 2 MB of flash memory for code/data
  • Up to 768 KB of low leakage / low power RAM for code/data
  • Integrated Bluetooth 5 Low-energy controller

For more information about the Apollo3 Blue Plus SoC and Apollo3 Blue Plus EVB board:

  • Apollo3 Blue Plus Website_
  • Apollo3 Blue Plus Datasheet_
  • Apollo3 Blue Plus EVB Website_

Supported Features

.. zephyr:board-supported-hw::

Programming and Debugging

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Flashing an application

Connect your device to your host computer using the JLINK USB port. The sample application :zephyr:code-sample:hello_world is used for this example. Build the Zephyr kernel and application, then flash it to the device:

.. zephyr-app-commands:: :zephyr-app: samples/hello_world :board: apollo3p_evb :goals: flash

.. note:: west flash requires SEGGER J-Link software_ and pylink_ Python module to be installed on you host computer.

Open a serial terminal (minicom, putty, etc.) with the following settings:

  • Speed: 115200
  • Data: 8 bits
  • Parity: None
  • Stop bits: 1

Reset the board and you should be able to see on the corresponding Serial Port the following message:

.. code-block:: console

Hello World! apollo3p_evb

.. _Apollo3 Blue Plus Website: https://ambiq.com/apollo3-blue-plus/

.. _Apollo3 Blue Plus Datasheet: https://contentportal.ambiq.com/documents/20123/388390/Apollo3-Blue-Plus-SoC-Datasheet.pdf

.. _Apollo3 Blue Plus EVB Website: https://www.ambiq.top/en/apollo3-blue-plus-soc-eval-board

.. _SEGGER J-Link software: https://www.segger.com/downloads/jlink

.. _pylink: https://github.com/Square/pylink