NXP RD-RW612-BGA
Overview
The RW612 is a highly integrated, low-power tri-radio wireless MCU with an integrated 260 MHz ARM Cortex-M33 MCU and Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) 5.3 / 802.15.4 radios designed for a broad array of applications, including connected smart home devices, gaming controllers, enterprise and industrial automation, smart accessories and smart energy.
The RW612 MCU subsystem includes 1.2 MB of on-chip SRAM and a high-bandwidth Quad SPI interface with an on-the-fly decryption engine for securely accessing off-chip XIP flash.
The advanced design of the RW612 delivers tight integration, low power and highly secure operation in a space- and cost-efficient wireless MCU requiring only a single 3.3 V power supply.
Hardware
260 MHz ARM Cortex-M33, tri-radio cores for Wifi 6 + BLE 5.3 + 802.15.4
1.2 MB on-chip SRAM
Supported Features
Interface |
Controller |
Driver/Component |
|---|---|---|
NVIC |
on-chip |
nested vector interrupt controller |
SYSTICK |
on-chip |
systick |
MCI_IOMUX |
on-chip |
pinmux |
GPIO |
on-chip |
gpio |
USART |
on-chip |
serial |
DMA |
on-chip |
dma |
SPI |
on-chip |
spi |
I2C |
on-chip |
i2c |
FLEXSPI |
on-chip |
flash/memc |
TRNG |
on-chip |
entropy |
DMIC |
on-chip |
dmic |
LCDIC |
on-chip |
mipi-dbi |
WWDT |
on-chip |
watchdog |
USBOTG |
on-chip |
usb |
CTIMER |
on-chip |
counter |
MRT |
on-chip |
counter |
OS_TIMER |
on-chip |
os timer |
PM |
on-chip |
power management; uses SoC Power Modes 1 and 2 |
BLE |
on-chip |
Bluetooth |
The default configuration can be found in the defconfig file:
Other hardware features are not currently supported
Fetch Binary Blobs
To support Bluetooth, rd_rw612_bga requires fetching binary blobs, which can be achieved by running the following command:
west blobs fetch hal_nxp
Programming and Debugging
Build and flash applications as usual (see Building an Application and Run an Application for more details).
Configuring a Debug Probe
A debug probe is used for both flashing and debugging the board. This board is configured by default to use the JLink Firmware.
Configuring a Console
Connect a USB cable from your PC to J7, and use the serial terminal of your choice (minicom, putty, etc.) with the following settings:
Speed: 115200
Data: 8 bits
Parity: None
Stop bits: 1
Flashing
Here is an example for the Hello World application. This example uses the J-Link Debug Host Tools as default.
# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b rd_rw612_bga samples/hello_world
west flash
Open a serial terminal, reset the board (press the RESET button), and you should see the following message in the terminal:
***** Booting Zephyr OS v3.4.0 *****
Hello World! rd_rw612_bga
Debugging
Here is an example for the Hello World application. This example uses the J-Link Debug Host Tools as default.
# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b rd_rw612_bga samples/hello_world
west debug
Open a serial terminal, step through the application in your debugger, and you should see the following message in the terminal:
***** Booting Zephyr OS zephyr-v3.6.0 *****
Hello World! rd_rw612_bga
Bluetooth
BLE functionality requires to fetch binary blobs, so make sure to follow
the Fetch Binary Blobs section first.
Those binary blobs can be used in two different ways, depending if CONFIG_NXP_MONOLITHIC_BT
is enabled or not:
CONFIG_NXP_MONOLITHIC_BTis enabled (default):
The required binary blob will be linked with the application image directly, forming one single monolithic image. The user has nothing else to do other than flashing the application to the board.
CONFIG_NXP_MONOLITHIC_BTis disabled:
In this case, the BLE blob won’t be linked with the application, so the user needs to manually
flash the BLE binary blob to the board at the address 0x18540000.
The binary blob will be located here: <zephyr workspace>/modules/hal/nxp/zephyr/blobs/rw61x/rw61x_sb_ble_a2.bin
Board variants
Ethernet
To use ethernet on the RD_RW612_BGA board, you first need to make the following modifications to the board hardware:
Add resistors:
R485
R486
R487
R488
R489
R491
R490
Remove resistors:
R522
R521
R520
R524
R523
R508
R505
Then, build for the board target rd_rw612_bga//ethernet.