Thingy:53
Overview
Zephyr uses the thingy53/nrf5340 board configuration for building
for the Thingy:53 board. The board has the nRF5340 MCU processor, a set of
environmental sensors, a pushbutton, and RGB LED.
The nRF5340 is a dual-core SoC based on the Arm® Cortex®-M33 architecture, with:
a full-featured Arm Cortex-M33F core with DSP instructions, FPU, and Armv8-M Security Extension, running at up to 128 MHz, referred to as the application core
a secondary Arm Cortex-M33 core, with a reduced feature set, running at a fixed 64 MHz, referred to as the network core.
The thingy53/nrf5340/cpuapp build target provides support for the application
core on the nRF5340 SoC. The thingy53/nrf5340/cpunet build target provides
support for the network core on the nRF5340 SoC.
The Nordic Thingy:53 Hardware guide [1] contains the processor’s information and the datasheet.
Hardware
Supported Features
The thingy53 board supports the hardware features listed below.
- on-chip / on-board
- Feature integrated in the SoC / present on the board.
- 2 / 2
-
Number of instances that are enabled / disabled.
Click on the label to see the first instance of this feature in the board/SoC DTS files. -
vnd,foo -
Compatible string for the Devicetree binding matching the feature.
Click on the link to view the binding documentation.
Type |
Location |
Description |
Compatible |
|---|---|---|---|
CPU |
on-chip |
ARM Cortex-M33F CPU1 |
|
ADC |
on-chip |
Nordic Semiconductor nRF family SAADC node1 |
|
ARM architecture |
on-chip |
Nordic UICR (User Information Configuration Registers)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family DCNF (Domain Configuration)1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family RESET (Reset Control)1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family CTRL-AP (Control Access Port)1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic EGU (Event Generator Unit)6 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family MUTEX (Mutual Exclusive Peripheral)1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic KMU (Key Management Unit)1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic SPU (System Protection Unit)1 |
||
Audio |
on-chip |
Nordic PDM (Pulse Density Modulation interface)1 |
|
Clock control |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF53X OSCILLATORS (Oscillator Control)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF low-frequency crystal oscillator (nRF53 series)1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF high-frequency crystal oscillator (nRF53 series)1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF clock control node1 |
||
Comparator |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF COMP (analog COMParator)1 |
|
Counter |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF timer node3 |
|
Cryptographic accelerator |
on-chip |
ARM TrustZone CryptoCell 3121 |
|
Debug |
on-chip |
ARMv8 instrumentation trace macrocell1 |
|
Flash controller |
on-chip |
Properties defining the interface for the Nordic QSPI peripheral1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic NVMC (Non-Volatile Memory Controller)1 |
||
GPIO & Headers |
on-chip |
NRF5 GPIO2 |
|
on-chip |
|||
on-board |
This binding provides a nexus mapping for 20 pins (HW rev 1.1.0) as depicted below1 |
||
on-board |
This is an abstract device responsible for forwarding pins between cores1 1 |
||
I2C |
on-chip |
||
I2S |
on-chip |
Nordic I2S (Inter-IC sound interface)1 |
|
IEEE 802.15.4 |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF IEEE 802.15.4 node1 |
|
IIO |
on-board |
Description for a voltage divider, with optional ability to measure resistance of the upper leg1 |
|
Input |
on-board |
Group of GPIO-bound input keys1 |
|
Interrupt controller |
on-chip |
ARMv8-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1 |
|
LED |
on-board |
Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1 |
|
on-board |
Group of PWM-controlled LEDs1 |
||
Mailbox |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family IPC (MBOX Interprocessor Communication)1 |
|
Miscellaneous |
on-chip |
Nordic FICR (Factory Information Configuration Registers)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic DPPIC (Distributed Programmable Peripheral Interconnect Controller)1 |
||
MMU / MPU |
on-chip |
ARMv8-M MPU (Memory Protection Unit)1 |
|
MTD |
on-board |
QSPI NOR flash supporting the JEDEC CFI interface1 |
|
on-chip |
Flash node1 |
||
on-chip |
Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1 |
||
Networking |
on-board |
This is a SPI device interface to the nRF21540 Radio Front-End module1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family NFCT (Near Field Communication Tag)1 |
||
Pin control |
on-chip |
The nRF pin controller is a singleton node responsible for controlling pin function selection and pin properties1 |
|
Power management |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF power control node1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family USBREG (USB Regulator Control)1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic VMC (Volatile Memory Controller)1 |
||
PWM |
on-chip |
||
on-chip |
nRFx S/W PWM1 |
||
Regulator |
on-chip |
Nordic REGULATORS (voltage regulators control module) on nRF53X1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF5X regulator (fixed stage of the core supply)2 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF53X regulator (high voltage stage of the main supply)1 |
||
on-board |
|||
Retained memory |
on-chip |
Nordic GPREGRET (General Purpose Register Retention) device2 |
|
RTC |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF RTC (Real-Time Counter)2 |
|
Sensors |
on-board |
Bosch BMM150 Geomagnetic sensor1 |
|
on-board |
The BME680 is an integrated environmental sensor that measures temperature, pressure, humidity and air quality1 |
||
on-board |
ADXL362 3-axis SPI accelerometer1 |
||
on-board |
The BMI270 is an inertial measurement unit1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF quadrature decoder (QDEC) node2 |
||
Serial controller |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family UARTE (UART with EasyDMA)4 |
|
SPI |
on-chip |
||
SRAM |
on-chip |
Generic on-chip SRAM description1 |
|
Timer |
on-chip |
ARMv8-M System Tick1 |
|
USB |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF52 USB device controller1 |
|
Watchdog |
on-chip |
Programming and Debugging
Flashing
Flashing Zephyr onto Thingy:53 requires an external J-Link programmer. The programmer is attached to the P9 programming header.
Debugging
Thingy:53 does not have an on-board J-Link debug IC as some other nRF5 development boards, however, instructions from the Nordic nRF5x Segger J-Link page also apply to this board, with the additional step of connecting an external debugger. A development board with a Debug out connector such as the nRF5340 DK can be used as a debugger with Thingy:53.