Particle Argon¶
Overview¶
The Particle Argon is a Wi-Fi enabled development board with a Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 for mesh support and an ESP32 for Wi-Fi. The board was developed by Particle Industries and has a SWD connector on it for programming.
It is equipped with a onboard LIPO circuit and conforms to the Adafruit Feather formfactor.
The Particle Argon provides support for the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 ARM® Cortex®-M4F SoC with an integrated 2.4 GHz transceiver supporting Bluetooth® Low Energy and IEEE® 802.15.4.
For more information about the Particle Argon board:
Hardware¶
On the front of the board are RGB-LED, LED and LIPO circuitry. The RGB-LED is controlled by the nRF52840 via GPIO pins.
Power supply¶
The board is optimized for low power applications and supports two power source configurations: battery and micro USB connector.
It contains circuitry for LIPO usage and can be charged via the USB port.
Supported Features¶
The particle_argon board configuration supports the following hardware features:
Interface |
Controller |
Driver/Component |
---|---|---|
NVIC |
on-chip |
nested vectored interrupt controller |
RTC |
on-chip |
system clock |
UART |
on-chip |
serial port |
I2C |
on-chip |
i2c |
SPI |
on-chip |
spi |
GPIO |
on-chip |
gpio |
FLASH |
on-chip |
flash |
RADIO |
on-chip |
Bluetooth |
Other hardware features are not supported by the Zephyr kernel.
Connections and IOs¶
Please see the Argon Datasheet for header pin assignments, which are common to all Feather-compatible Particle boards. Some peripherals are available to applications through DTS overlay include directives:
mesh_feather_i2c1_twi1.dtsi
exposes TWI1 on labeled Feather SDA1/SCL1 pinsmesh_feather_spi_spi1.dtsi
exposes SPI1 on labeled Feather SPI pinsmesh_feather_spi_spi3.dtsi
exposes SPI3 on labeled Feather SPI pinsmesh_feather_spi1_spi3.dtsi
exposes SPI3 on labeled Feather SPI1 pinsmesh_feather_uart1_rtscts.dtsi
adds hardware flow control to labeled Feather UART pins
LED¶
LED0 (blue)
LED1 (red)
LED2 (green)
LED3 (blue)
Push buttons¶
SW0 via MODE
SW1 via RESET
I2C¶
TWI0 enabled on labeled header (SDA/SCL)
TWI1 selectable with overlay (SDA1/SCL1)
SPI¶
SPI0 disabled due to TWI0 conflict
SPI1 selectable with overlay (SPI)
SPI2 internal to 32 Mb CFI flash chip
SPI3 selectable with overlay (SPI or SPI1)
UART¶
UARTE0 enabled RX/TX on labeled header (UART1); add RTS/CTS with overlay
UARTE1 internal to ESP32
Programming and Debugging¶
Applications for the particle_argon
board configuration can be
built and flashed in the usual way (see Building an Application
and Run an Application for more details).
Flashing¶
Build and flash an application in the usual way, for example:
# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b particle_argon samples/basic/blinky
west flash
Debugging¶
You can debug an application in the usual way. Here is an example for the Hello World application.
# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b particle_argon samples/hello_world
west debug