BL653 DVK

Overview

The BL653 Development Kit (453-00039-K1, 453-00041-K1) hardware provides support for the Ezurio BL653 module powered by a Nordic Semiconductor nRF52833 ARM Cortex-M4F CPU.

This development kit has the following features:

  • ADC

  • CLOCK

  • FLASH

  • GPIO

  • I2C

  • MPU

  • NVIC

  • PWM

  • RADIO (Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4)

  • RTC

  • Segger RTT (RTT Console)

  • SPI

  • UART

  • USB

  • WDT

More information about the board can be found at the BL653 website [1].

Hardware

Supported Features

The bl653_dvk board supports the hardware features listed below.

on-chip / on-board
Feature integrated in the SoC / present on the board.
2 / 2
Number of instances that are enabled / disabled.
Click on the label to see the first instance of this feature in the board/SoC DTS files.
vnd,foo
Compatible string for the Devicetree binding matching the feature.
Click on the link to view the binding documentation.

See BL653 website [1] for a complete list of BL653 Development Kit board hardware features.

Connections and IOs

LED

  • LED1 (blue) = P0.13

  • LED2 (blue) = P0.14

  • LED3 (blue) = P0.15

  • LED4 (blue) = P0.16

Push buttons

  • BUTTON1 = SW1 = P0.11

  • BUTTON2 = SW2 = P0.12

  • BUTTON3 = SW9 = P0.24

  • BUTTON4 = SW10 = P0.25

  • RESET = SW3 = nReset/IF BOOT

Programming and Debugging

The bl653_dvk board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

flash debug

Applications for the bl653_dvk board configuration can be built, flashed, and debugged in the usual way. See Building an Application and Run an Application for more details on building and running.

Flashing

Follow the instructions in the Nordic nRF5x Segger J-Link page to install and configure all the necessary software. Further information can be found in Flashing. Then build and flash applications as usual (see Building an Application and Run an Application for more details).

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

First, run your favorite terminal program to listen for output.

NOTE: On the BL653 development board, the FTDI USB should be used to access the UART console.

$ minicom -D <tty_device> -b 115200

Replace <tty_device> with the port where the BL653 development kit can be found. For example, under Linux, /dev/ttyUSB0.

Then build and flash the application in the usual way.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b bl653_dvk samples/hello_world
west flash

Debugging

Refer to the Nordic nRF5x Segger J-Link page to learn about debugging Nordic based boards with a Segger IC.

Testing Bluetooth on the BL653 DVK

Many of the Bluetooth examples will work on the BL653 DVK. Try them out:

Testing the LEDs and buttons on the BL653 DVK

There are 2 samples that allow you to test that the buttons (switches) and LEDs on the board are working properly with Zephyr:

You can build and flash the examples to make sure Zephyr is running correctly on your board. The button and LED definitions can be found in boards/ezurio/bl653_dvk/bl653_dvk.dts.

Using UART1

The following approach can be used when an application needs to use more than one UART for connecting peripheral devices:

  1. Add devicetree overlay file to the main directory of your application:

    &pinctrl {
   uart1_default: uart1_default {
      group1 {
         psels = <NRF_PSEL(UART_TX, 0, 14)>,
                 <NRF_PSEL(UART_RX, 0, 16)>;
      };
   };
   /* required if CONFIG_PM_DEVICE=y */
   uart1_sleep: uart1_sleep {
      group1 {
         psels = <NRF_PSEL(UART_TX, 0, 14)>,
                 <NRF_PSEL(UART_RX, 0, 16)>;
         low-power-enable;
      };
   };
};

&uart1 {
  compatible = "nordic,nrf-uarte";
  current-speed = <115200>;
  status = "okay";
  pinctrl-0 = <&uart1_default>;
  pinctrl-1 = <&uart1_sleep>;
  pinctrl-names = "default", "sleep";
};

    In the overlay file above, pin P0.16 is used for RX and P0.14 is used for TX

  2. Use the UART1 as DEVICE_DT_GET(DT_NODELABEL(uart1))

See Set devicetree overlays for further details.

Selecting the pins

Pins can be configured in the board pinctrl file. To see the available mappings, open the nRF52833 Product Specification [2], chapter 7 ‘Hardware and Layout’. In the table 7.1.1 ‘aQFN73 ball assignments’ select the pins marked ‘General purpose I/O’. Note that pins marked as ‘low frequency I/O only’ can only be used in under-10KHz applications. They are not suitable for 115200 speed of UART.

References