u-blox EVK NINA-B11x¶
Overview¶
The u-blox NINA-B1 Evaluation Kit hardware is a Bluetooth low energy module based on the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52832 ARM Cortex-M4F CPU and has support for the following features:
ADC
CLOCK
FLASH
GPIO
I2C
MPU
NVIC
PWM
RADIO (Bluetooth Low Energy)
RTC
Segger RTT (RTT Console)
SPI
UART
WDT
EVK NINA-B1¶
More information about the NINA-B1 module and the EVK NINA-B1 can be found at NINA-B1 product page 1 and EVK-NINA-B1 product page 2.
Supported Features¶
The ubx_evkninab1_nrf52832 board configuration supports the following hardware features:
Interface |
Controller |
Driver/Component |
|---|---|---|
ADC |
on-chip |
adc |
CLOCK |
on-chip |
clock_control |
FLASH |
on-chip |
flash |
GPIO |
on-chip |
gpio |
I2C(M) |
on-chip |
i2c |
MPU |
on-chip |
arch/arm |
NVIC |
on-chip |
arch/arm |
PWM |
on-chip |
pwm |
RADIO |
on-chip |
Bluetooth Low Energy |
RTC |
on-chip |
system clock |
RTT |
Segger |
console |
SPI(M/S) |
on-chip |
spi |
UART |
on-chip |
serial |
WDT |
on-chip |
watchdog |
Note
Most Arduino interfaces are supported. Arduino pins D5 and D8 are not available, so arduino_gpio is disabled. On the EVK-NINA-B1, these pins are assigned to SWDIO and SWDCLK, respectively.
Other hardware features are not supported by the Zephyr kernel. See EVK-NINA-B1 product page 2 and NINA-B1 Data Sheet 3 for a complete list of EVK NINA-B1 hardware features.
Connections and IOs¶
LED¶
LED0 (red) = P0.08
LED1 (green) = P0.16
LED2 (blue) = P0.18
Push buttons¶
BUTTON1 = SW1 = P0.16
BUTTON2 = SW2 = P0.30
General information on module pin numbering¶
The numbering of the pins on the module and EVK do not follow the GPIO numbering on the nRF52832 SoC. Please see the NINA-B1 Data Sheet 3 for information on how to map NINA-B1 pins to the pin numbering on the nRF52832 SoC.
The reason for this is the u-blox module family concept where different modules share the same pinout and can be interchanged, see NINA module family Nested design 4.
Programming and Debugging¶
Applications for the ubx_evkninab1_nrf52832 board configuration can be
built and flashed in the usual way (see Building an Application
and Run an Application for more details); however, the standard
debugging targets are not currently available.
Flashing¶
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.
Open a terminal program to the USB Serial Port installed when connecting the board and listen for output.
Settings: 115200, 8N1, no flow control.
Then build and flash the application in the usual way.
# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b ubx_evkninab1_nrf52832 samples/hello_world
west flash
Debugging¶
Refer to the Nordic nRF5x Segger J-Link page to learn about debugging boards containing a Nordic Semiconductor chip with a Segger IC.
Testing the LEDs and buttons in the EVK NINA-B11x¶
There are 2 samples that allow you to test that the buttons (switches) and LEDs on the board are working properly with Zephyr:
samples/basic/blinky
samples/basic/button
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/arm/ubx_evkninab1_nrf52832/ubx_evkninab1_nrf52832.dts.
Note that the buttons on the EVK-NINA-B1 are marked SW1 and SW2, which are named sw0 and sw1 in the dts file. Also note that the SW1 button and the green LED are connected on HW level.