Laird Connectivity BL652 DVK

Overview

The BL652 Development Kit hardware provides support for the Laird Connectivity BL652 module powered by a Nordic Semiconductor nRF52832 ARM Cortex-M4F CPU.

This development kit has the following features:

  • ADC

  • CLOCK

  • FLASH

  • GPIO

  • I2C

  • MPU

  • NVIC

  • PWM

  • RADIO (Bluetooth Low Energy)

  • RTC

  • Segger RTT (RTT Console)

  • SPI

  • UART

  • WDT

Available BL652 DVK part numbers:

  • DVK-BL652-SA

  • DVK-BL652-SC

BL652 DVK

BL652 DVK Board

BL652-SA DVK Box Contents

BL652-SA DVK Box Contents

More information about the board can be found at the BL652 Module Website [1].

Hardware

Supported Features

The BL652 DVK 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

RTC

on-chip

system clock

RTT

Segger

console

SPI(M/S)

on-chip

spi

UART

on-chip

serial

WDT

on-chip

watchdog

Other hardware features have not been enabled yet for this board. See BL652 Module Website [1].

Connections and IOs

LED

  • LED1 (blue) = P0.17

  • LED2 (blue) = P0.19

Push buttons

  • BUTTON1 = SW1 = P0.11

  • BUTTON2 = SW2 = P0.15

  • Reset = SW3 = boot/reset

External Connectors

Arduino Headers

J33/J23 Power

PIN #

Signal Name

NRF52832 Functions

1

NC

N/A

2

IOREF (3v3)

N/A

3

RESET

P0.21 / RESET

4

3v3

N/A

5

5V

N/A

6

GND

N/A

7

GND

N/A

8

VIN (12V)

N/A

J31/J16 Analog in

PIN #

Signal Name

NRF52832 Functions

1

A0

P0.03 / AIN1

2

A1

P0.04 / AIN2

3

A2

P0.28 / AIN4

4

A3

P0.29 / AIN5

5

A4

P0.30 / AIN6

6

A5

P0.31 / AIN7

J30/J15 Digital I/O

PIN #

Signal Name

NRF52832 Functions

1

D0 (RX)

P0.11

2

D1 (TX)

P0.12

3

D2

P0.13

4

D3

P0.14 / TRACEDATA[3]

5

D4

P0.15 / TRACEDATA[2]

6

D5

P0.16 / TRACEDATA[1]

7

D6

P0.17

8

D7

P0.18 / TRACEDATA[3] / SWO

J32/J22 Digital I/O

PIN #

Signal Name

NRF52832 Functions

1

D8

P0.19

2

D9

P0.20 / TRACECLK

3

D10 (SS)

P0.22

4

D11 (MOSI)

P0.23

5

D12 (MISO)

P0.24

6

D13 (SCK)

P0.25

7

GND

N/A

8

AREF

P0.02 / AIN0

9

SDA

P0.26

10

SCL

P0.27

Programming and Debugging

Flashing

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. Then 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.

First, run your favorite terminal program to listen for output.

NOTE: On the BL652 DVK, the FTDI USB should be used to access the UART console.

$ minicom -D <tty_device> -b 115200

Replace <tty_device> with the port where the BL652 DVK can be found. For example, under Linux, /dev/ttyUSB0.

Then build and flash the application in the usual way.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b bl652_dvk samples/hello_world
west flash

Debugging

Refer to the Nordic nRF5x Segger J-Link page to learn about debugging Nordic based boards with a Segger IC.

Testing Bluetooth on the BL652 DVK

Many of the Bluetooth examples will work on the BL652 DVK. Try them out:

Testing the LEDs and buttons in the BL652 DVK

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/arm/bl652_dvk/bl652_dvk.dts.

References