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.. zephyr:board:: slwrb4104a

Overview


The EFR32BG13 Blue Gecko Bluetooth® Low Energy Radio Board is one of the two radio boards delivered with SLWSTK6020B Bluetooth SoC Starter Kit_. It contains a Wireless System-On-Chip from the EFR32BG13 family built on an ARM Cortex®-M4F processor with excellent low power capabilities.

The BRD4104A a.k.a. SLWRB4104A radio board plugs into the Wireless Starter Kit Mainboard BRD4001A and is supported as one of :ref:silabs_radio_boards.

Hardware


  • EFR32BG13P632F512GM48 Blue Gecko SoC
  • CPU core: ARM Cortex®-M4 with FPU
  • Flash memory: 512 kB
  • RAM: 64 kB
  • Transmit power: up to +10 dBm
  • Operation frequency: 2.4 GHz
  • 8Mbit SPI NOR Flash
  • Crystals for LFXO (32.768 kHz) and HFXO (38.4 MHz).

For more information about the EFR32BG13 SoC and BRD4104A board, refer to these documents:

  • EFR32BG13 Website_
  • EFR32BG13 Datasheet_
  • EFR32xG13 Reference Manual_
  • SLWSTK6020B Bluetooth SoC Starter Kit_
  • BRD4104A User Guide_
  • BRD4104A Reference Manual_
  • EFR32BG13-BRD4104A Schematics_

Supported Features

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Connections and IOs

In the following table, the column Pin contains Pin names. For example, PA2 means Pin number 2 on PORTA, as used in the board's datasheets and manuals.

+-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+ | Pin | Function | Usage | +=======+=============+=====================================+ | PF4 | GPIO | LED0 | +-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+ | PF5 | GPIO | LED1 | +-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+ | PF6 | GPIO | Push Button PB0 | +-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+ | PF7 | GPIO | Push Button PB1 | +-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+ | PA5 | GPIO | Board Controller Enable | | | | VCOM_ENABLE | +-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+ | PA0 | USART0_TX | UART Console VCOM_TX US0_TX #0 | +-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+ | PA1 | USART0_RX | UART Console VCOM_RX US0_RX #0 | +-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+ | PC6 | SPI_MOSI | Flash MOSI US1_TX #11 | +-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+ | PC7 | SPI_MISO | Flash MISO US1_RX #11 | +-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+ | PC8 | SPI_SCLK | Flash SCLK US1_CLK #11 | +-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+ | PA4 | SPI_CS | Flash Chip Select (GPIO) | +-------+-------------+-------------------------------------+

System Clock

The EFR32BG13P SoC is configured to use the 38.4 MHz external oscillator on the board.

Serial Port

The EFR32BG13P SoC has three USARTs and one Low Energy UARTs (LEUART). USART0 is connected to the board controller and is used for the console.

Programming and Debugging


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Flashing

Connect the BRD4001A board with a mounted BRD4104A radio module to your host computer using the USB port.

Here is an example for the :zephyr:code-sample:hello_world application.

.. zephyr-app-commands:: :zephyr-app: samples/hello_world :board: slwrb4104a :goals: flash

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 see the following message in the terminal:

.. code-block:: console

Hello World! slwrb4161a

.. _EFR32BG13 Website: https://www.silabs.com/wireless/bluetooth/efr32bg13-series-1-socs

.. _EFR32BG13 Datasheet: https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/data-sheets/efr32bg13-datasheet.pdf

.. _EFR32xG13 Reference Manual: https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/reference-manuals/efr32xg13-rm.pdf

.. _SLWSTK6020B Bluetooth SoC Starter Kit: https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/wireless/bluetooth/blue-gecko-bluetooth-low-energy-soc-starter-kit

.. _BRD4104A User Guide: https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/user-guides/ug279-brd4104a-user-guide.pdf

.. _BRD4104A Reference Manual: https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/reference-manuals/brd4104a-rm.pdf

.. _EFR32BG13-BRD4104A Schematics: https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/schematic-files/BRD4104A-A00-schematic.pdf