Ambiq Apollo3 Blue EVB

Apollo3 Blue EVB is a board by Ambiq featuring their ultra-low power Apollo3 Blue SoC.

Hardware

• Apollo3 Blue SoC with up to 96 MHz operating frequency

• ARM® Cortex® M4F core

• 16 kB 2-way Associative/Direct-Mapped Cache per core

• Up to 1 MB of flash memory for code/data

• Up to 384 KB of low leakage / low power RAM for code/data

• Integrated Bluetooth 5 Low-energy controller

For more information about the Apollo3 Blue SoC and Apollo3 Blue EVB board:

• Apollo3 Blue Website

• Apollo3 Blue Datasheet

• Apollo3 Blue EVB Website

Supported Features

The Apollo3 Blue EVB board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Interface	Controller	Driver/Component
MPU	on-chip	memory protection unit
NVIC	on-chip	nested vector interrupt controller
SYSTICK	on-chip	systick
STIMER	on-chip	stimer
GPIO	on-chip	gpio
UART	on-chip	serial
WDT	on-chip	watchdog
RADIO	on-chip	bluetooth

The default configuration can be found in the defconfig file: boards/arm/apollo3_evb/apollo3_evb_defconfig.

Programming and Debugging

Flashing an application

Connect your device to your host computer using the JLINK USB port. The sample application Hello World is used for this example. Build the Zephyr kernel and application, then flash it to the device:

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b apollo3_evb samples/hello_world
west flash

Note

west flash requires SEGGER J-Link software and pylink Python module to be installed on you host computer.

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 be able to see on the corresponding Serial Port the following message:

Hello World! apollo3_evb