nRF52-VBLUno52

Overview

Zephyr can use the nrf52_vbluno52 board configuration to run on the VBLUno52 board, a VNG Bluetooth Low Energy UNO using an nRF52832 ARM Cortex-M4F processor. It provides support for the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52832 ARM Cortex-M4F CPU and the following devices:

  • NVIC

  • RTC

  • UART

  • GPIO

  • FLASH

  • RADIO (Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0)

Hardware

The VBLUno52 board has two external oscillators. The frequency of the slow clock is 32.768 kHz. The frequency of the main clock is 64 MHz.

Supported Features

The nrf52_vbluno52 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.

Connections and IOs

LED

  • LED = LED0 (green) = P0.12

Push buttons

  • BUTTON = BUT = SW0 = P0.17

Programming and Debugging

The nrf52_vbluno52 board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

flash debug

Flashing

The VBLUno52 board has an on-board DAPLink (CMSIS-DAP) interface for flashing and debugging. You do not need any other programming device. You only need to install the pyOCD tool (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyOCD)

See the Getting Started Guide for general information on setting up your development environment.

You can build and flash applications in the usual way. Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nrf52_vbluno52 samples/hello_world
west flash

Testing the VBLUno52 with Zephyr: buttons, LEDs, UART, BLE

Here are some sample applications that you can use to test different components on the VBLUno52 board: