nRF9280 PDK

Overview

Note

All software for the nRF9280 SiP is experimental and hardware availability is restricted to the participants in the limited sampling program.

The nRF9280 DK is a single-board development kit for evaluation and development on the Nordic nRF9280 System-in-Package (SiP).

The nRF9280 is a multicore SiP with:

  • an Arm Cortex-M33 core with DSP instructions, FPU, and Armv8-M Security Extensions, running at up to 320 MHz, referred to as the application core

  • an Arm Cortex-M33 core with DSP instructions, FPU, and Armv8-M Security Extensions, running at up to 256 MHz, referred to as the radio core.

The nrf9280pdk/nrf9280/cpuapp board target provides support for the application core on the nRF9280 SiP. The nrf9280pdk/nrf9280/cpurad board target provides support for the radio core on the nRF9280 SiP. The nrf9280pdk/nrf9280/cpuppr board target provides support for the PPR core on the nRF9280 SiP.

nRF9280 SiP provides support for the following devices:

  • ADC

  • CLOCK

  • GPIO

  • GRTC

  • I2C

  • MRAM

  • PWM

  • RADIO (Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4)

  • SPI

  • UART

  • USB

  • WDT

Hardware

nRF9280 DK has two crystal oscillators:

  • High-frequency 32 MHz crystal oscillator (HFXO)

  • Low-frequency 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator (LFXO)

Supported Features

The nrf9280pdk/nrf9280/cpuapp board target supports the following hardware features:

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

GPIO

on-chip

gpio

GRTC

on-chip

system clock

I2C(M)

on-chip

i2c

PWM

on-chip

pwm

SPI(M/S)

on-chip

spi

UART

on-chip

serial

WDT

on-chip

watchdog

The nrf9280pdk/nrf9280/cpurad board target supports the following hardware features:

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

GPIO

on-chip

gpio

GRTC

on-chip

system clock

I2C(M)

on-chip

i2c

SPI(M/S)

on-chip

spi

UART

on-chip

serial

WDT

on-chip

watchdog

The nrf9280pdk/nrf9280/cpuppr board target supports the following hardware features:

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

GPIO

on-chip

gpio

GRTC

on-chip

system clock

I2C(M)

on-chip

i2c

SPI(M/S)

on-chip

spi

PWM

on-chip

pwm

Other hardware features have not been enabled yet for this board.

Connections and IOs

LEDs

  • LED1 (green) = P9.02

  • LED2 (green) = P9.03

  • LED3 (green) = P9.04

  • LED4 (green) = P9.05

Push buttons

  • BUTTON1 = P0.8

  • BUTTON2 = P0.9

  • BUTTON3 = P0.10

  • BUTTON4 = P0.11

  • RESET (SW1)

Programming and Debugging

Applications for both the nrf9280pdk/nrf9280/cpuapp and nrf9280pdk/nrf9280/cpurad board targets 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

As an example, this section shows how to build and flash the Hello World application.

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.

To build and program the sample to the nRF9280 DK, complete the following steps:

  1. Connect the nRF9280 DK to your computer using the IMCU USB port on the DK.

  2. Build the sample by running the following command:

    # From the root of the zephyr repository
    west build -b nrf9280pdk/nrf9280/cpuapp samples/hello_world
    west flash
    

Testing the LEDs and buttons in the nRF9280 DK

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/nordic/nrf9280pdk/nrf9280pdk_nrf9280_cpuapp.dts.