Icarus SoM DK

Board Overview

Icarus SoM DK

Name:

actinius_icarus_som_dk

Vendor:

Actinius B.V.

Status:

Not actively maintained

Architecture:

arm

SoC:

nrf9160

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Overview

The Icarus SoM DK is a single board development kit for evaluation and development on the Icarus SoM (Icarus SoM Docs [4]). The Icarus SoM features the nRF9160 SiP from Nordic Semiconductor, a low-power 3-axis accelerometer and an on-board eSIM. The development kit provides interfacing to the SoM through USB-C, a set of user LEDs, a reset and a user button, a battery charging port, and a external nano SIM connector. The board is also Arduino Uno Rev3 compatible which makes using external shields possible.

The main uController is the Nordic Semiconductor nRF9160, with ARM Cortex-M33F CPU, ARMv8-M Security Extension and the following devices (provided directly by Nordic):

• ADC

• CLOCK

• FLASH

• GPIO

• I2C

• MPU

• NVIC

• PWM

• RTC

• Segger RTT (RTT Console)

• SPI

• UARTE

• WDT

• IDAU

Icarus SoM DK Block Diagram

Hardware

The detailed information about the on-board hardware can be found at the Icarus SoM Product Website [2] and the Icarus SoM DK Product Website [3].

Pin description

External Pins available to user:

#	Label	Description	Device-tree node
1	NC	Not Connected
2	IOREF	I/O reference, connected to 3.3V
3	RST	Reset of the nRF9160
4	3.3V	3.3V Power output
5	4.4V	Power output between Vbat and 4.4V
6	GND	Ground pin
7	GND	Ground pin
8	VIN	Power input pin (4.35V to 10.5V)
9	A2	AIN2 / nRF9160 P0.15	gpio0
10	A3	AIN3 / nRF9160 P0.16	gpio0
11	A4	AIN4 / nRF9160 P0.17	gpio0
12	A5	AIN5 / nRF9160 P0.18	gpio0
13	A6	AIN6 / nRF9160 P0.19	gpio0
14	A7	AIN7 / nRF9160 P0.20	gpio0
15	P4	nRF9160 P0.04	gpio0
16	P5	nRF9160 P0.05	gpio0
17	P2	nRF9160 P0.02	gpio0
18	P1	nRF9160 P0.01	gpio0
19	P23	nRF9160 P0.23	gpio0
20	P0	nRF9160 P0.00	gpio0
21	P26	nRF9160 P0.26	gpio0
22	P27	nRF9160 P0.27	gpio0
23	P30	nRF9160 P0.30	gpio0
24	P31	nRF9160 P0.31	gpio0
25	P7	nRF9160 P0.07	gpio0
26	P13	nRF9160 P0.13 or NC (Jumper-dependent) | gpio0
27	P14	nRF9160 P0.14 or NC (Jumper-dependent) | gpio0
28	P3	nRF9160 P0.03	gpio0
29	GND	Ground pin
30	AREF	NC or AIN1 (Jumper-dependent)	gpio0
31	SDA	I2C SDA pin	i2c2
32	SCL	I2C SCL pin	i2c2
	TS	Pin for optional battery thermistor
	CHG	Pin for battery charging indication
	CE	Pin for enabling/disabling charging

nRF9160 pins connected internally:

nRF9160 pin	Function	Device-tree node
P0.03	Blue LED	led0 / pwm-led0
P0.08	NeoPixel RGB LED	spi1
P0.12	SIM select pin	gpio0
P0.23	Connected to the user button	gpio0 / button0
P0.24	SPI NOR Flash chip select	gpio0 / spi3
P0.28	Accelerometer Interrupt 2	lis2dh12-accel
P0.29	Accelerometer Interrupt 1	lis2dh12-accel

Supported Features

The actinius_icarus_som_dk 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.

actinius_icarus_som_dk/nrf9160 target

Type	Location	Description	Compatible
CPU	on-chip	ARM Cortex-M33F CPU1	arm,cortex-m33f
ADC	on-chip	Nordic Semiconductor nRF family SAADC node1	nordic,nrf-saadc
	on-board	ADC channels exposed on Arduino Uno (R3) headers1	arduino,uno-adc
ARM architecture	on-chip	Nordic EGU (Event Generator Unit)6	nordic,nrf-egu
	on-chip	Nordic KMU (Key Management Unit)1	nordic,nrf-kmu
	on-chip	Nordic nRF family CTRL-AP (Control Access Port)1	nordic,nrf-ctrlapperi
	on-chip	Nordic SPU (System Protection Unit)1	nordic,nrf-spu
	on-chip	Nordic UICR (User Information Configuration Registers)1	nordic,nrf-uicr
Audio	on-chip	Nordic PDM (Pulse Density Modulation interface)1	nordic,nrf-pdm
Clock control	on-chip	Nordic nRF clock control node1	nordic,nrf-clock
Counter	on-chip	Nordic nRF timer node3	nordic,nrf-timer
Cryptographic accelerator	on-chip	ARM TrustZone CryptoCell 3101	arm,cryptocell-310
Flash controller	on-chip	Nordic NVMC (Non-Volatile Memory Controller)1	nordic,nrf91-flash-controller
GPIO & Headers	on-chip	NRF5 GPIO1	nordic,nrf-gpio
	on-chip	NRF5 GPIOTE11	nordic,nrf-gpiote
	on-board	GPIO pins exposed on Arduino Uno (R3) headers1	arduino-header-r3
I2C	on-chip	Nordic nRF family TWIM (TWI master with EasyDMA)13	nordic,nrf-twim
I2S	on-chip	Nordic I2S (Inter-IC sound interface)1	nordic,nrf-i2s
Input	on-board	Group of GPIO-bound input keys1	gpio-keys
Interrupt controller	on-chip	ARMv8-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1	arm,v8m-nvic
IPC	on-chip	Nordic nRF family IPC (Interprocessor Communication)1	nordic,nrf-ipc
LED	on-board	Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1	gpio-leds
	on-board	Group of PWM-controlled LEDs1	pwm-leds
LED strip	on-board	Worldsemi WS2812 LED strip, SPI binding1	worldsemi,ws2812-spi
Miscellaneous	on-chip	Nordic DPPIC (Distributed Programmable Peripheral Interconnect Controller)1	nordic,nrf-dppic
	on-chip	Nordic FICR (Factory Information Configuration Registers)1	nordic,nrf-ficr
	on-board	The Icarus boards provide the user with 2 options regarding SIM usage for LTE-M/NB-IoT communication1	actinius-sim-select
MMU / MPU	on-chip	ARMv8-M MPU (Memory Protection Unit)1	arm,armv8m-mpu
MTD	on-chip	Flash node1	soc-nv-flash
	on-chip	Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1	fixed-partitions
	on-chip	Fixed subpartitions of a flash (or other nonvolatile storage) memory2	fixed-subpartitions
	on-board	Properties supporting Zephyr spi-nor flash driver (over the Zephyr SPI API) control of serial flash memories using the standard M25P80-based command set1	jedec,spi-nor
Pin control	on-chip	Nordic nRF family Pin Controller1	nordic,nrf-pinctrl
Power management	on-chip	Nordic VMC (Volatile Memory Controller)1	nordic,nrf-vmc
	on-chip	Nordic nRF power control node1	nordic,nrf-power
PWM	on-chip	nRF PWM13	nordic,nrf-pwm
	on-chip	nRFx S/W PWM1	nordic,nrf-sw-pwm
Regulator	on-chip	Nordic REGULATORS (voltage regulators control module) on nRF91X1	nordic,nrf91x-regulators
Retained memory	on-chip	Nordic GPREGRET (General Purpose Register Retention) device2	nordic,nrf-gpregret
RTC	on-chip	Nordic nRF RTC (Real-Time Counter)2	nordic,nrf-rtc
Sensors	on-board	STMicroelectronics LIS2DH12 3-axis accelerometer1	st,lis2dh12
Serial controller	on-chip	Nordic nRF family UARTE (UART with EasyDMA)13	nordic,nrf-uarte
SPI	on-chip	Nordic nRF family SPIM (SPI master with EasyDMA)22	nordic,nrf-spim
SRAM	on-chip	Generic on-chip SRAM1	mmio-sram
Timer	on-chip	ARMv8-M System Tick1	arm,armv8m-systick
Watchdog	on-chip	Nordic nRF family WDT (Watchdog Timer)1	nordic,nrf-wdt

actinius_icarus_som_dk/nrf9160/ns target

Type	Location	Description	Compatible
CPU	on-chip	ARM Cortex-M33F CPU1	arm,cortex-m33f
ADC	on-chip	Nordic Semiconductor nRF family SAADC node1	nordic,nrf-saadc
	on-board	ADC channels exposed on Arduino Uno (R3) headers1	arduino,uno-adc
ARM architecture	on-chip	Nordic EGU (Event Generator Unit)6	nordic,nrf-egu
	on-chip	Nordic KMU (Key Management Unit)1	nordic,nrf-kmu
Audio	on-chip	Nordic PDM (Pulse Density Modulation interface)1	nordic,nrf-pdm
Clock control	on-chip	Nordic nRF clock control node1	nordic,nrf-clock
Counter	on-chip	Nordic nRF timer node3	nordic,nrf-timer
Flash controller	on-chip	Nordic NVMC (Non-Volatile Memory Controller)1	nordic,nrf91-flash-controller
GPIO & Headers	on-chip	NRF5 GPIO1	nordic,nrf-gpio
	on-chip	NRF5 GPIOTE1	nordic,nrf-gpiote
	on-board	GPIO pins exposed on Arduino Uno (R3) headers1	arduino-header-r3
I2C	on-chip	Nordic nRF family TWIM (TWI master with EasyDMA)13	nordic,nrf-twim
I2S	on-chip	Nordic I2S (Inter-IC sound interface)1	nordic,nrf-i2s
Input	on-board	Group of GPIO-bound input keys1	gpio-keys
Interrupt controller	on-chip	ARMv8-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1	arm,v8m-nvic
IPC	on-chip	Nordic nRF family IPC (Interprocessor Communication)1	nordic,nrf-ipc
LED	on-board	Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1	gpio-leds
	on-board	Group of PWM-controlled LEDs1	pwm-leds
LED strip	on-board	Worldsemi WS2812 LED strip, SPI binding1	worldsemi,ws2812-spi
Miscellaneous	on-chip	Nordic DPPIC (Distributed Programmable Peripheral Interconnect Controller)1	nordic,nrf-dppic
	on-board	The Icarus boards provide the user with 2 options regarding SIM usage for LTE-M/NB-IoT communication1	actinius-sim-select
MMU / MPU	on-chip	ARMv8-M MPU (Memory Protection Unit)1	arm,armv8m-mpu
MTD	on-chip	Flash node1	soc-nv-flash
	on-chip	Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1	fixed-partitions
	on-chip	Fixed subpartitions of a flash (or other nonvolatile storage) memory2	fixed-subpartitions
	on-board	Properties supporting Zephyr spi-nor flash driver (over the Zephyr SPI API) control of serial flash memories using the standard M25P80-based command set1	jedec,spi-nor
Pin control	on-chip	Nordic nRF family Pin Controller1	nordic,nrf-pinctrl
Power management	on-chip	Nordic VMC (Volatile Memory Controller)1	nordic,nrf-vmc
	on-chip	Nordic nRF power control node1	nordic,nrf-power
PWM	on-chip	nRF PWM13	nordic,nrf-pwm
	on-chip	nRFx S/W PWM1	nordic,nrf-sw-pwm
Regulator	on-chip	Nordic REGULATORS (voltage regulators control module) on nRF91X1	nordic,nrf91x-regulators
Retained memory	on-chip	Nordic GPREGRET (General Purpose Register Retention) device2	nordic,nrf-gpregret
RTC	on-chip	Nordic nRF RTC (Real-Time Counter)2	nordic,nrf-rtc
Sensors	on-board	STMicroelectronics LIS2DH12 3-axis accelerometer1	st,lis2dh12
Serial controller	on-chip	Nordic nRF family UARTE (UART with EasyDMA)13	nordic,nrf-uarte
SPI	on-chip	Nordic nRF family SPIM (SPI master with EasyDMA)22	nordic,nrf-spim
SRAM	on-chip	Generic on-chip SRAM1	mmio-sram
Timer	on-chip	ARMv8-M System Tick1	arm,armv8m-systick
Watchdog	on-chip	Nordic nRF family WDT (Watchdog Timer)1	nordic,nrf-wdt

SIM selection

The sim choice (eSIM or nano-SIM) can be configured in Devicetree by adjusting the sim property in the sim_select node.

Security components

• Implementation Defined Attribution Unit (IDAU [1]). The IDAU is implemented with the System Protection Unit and is used to define secure and non-secure memory maps. By default, all of the memory space (Flash, SRAM, and peripheral address space) is defined to be secure accessible only.

• Secure boot.

Building Secure/Non-Secure Zephyr applications

The process requires the following steps:

1. Build the Secure Zephyr application using -DBOARD=actinius_icarus_som_dk.

2. Build the Non-Secure Zephyr application using -DBOARD=actinius_icarus_som_dk/ns.

3. Merge the two binaries together.

If you are using Segger Embedded Studio v4.18 or later, the two binaries are built, merged, and burned automatically, unless you have disabled the feature.

When building a Secure/Non-Secure application, the Secure application will have to set the IDAU (SPU) configuration to allow Non-Secure access to all CPU resources utilized by the Non-Secure application firmware. SPU configuration shall take place before jumping to the Non-Secure application.

More information can be found in the Icarus SoM Product Website [2], the Icarus SoM DK Product Website [3] or the Actinius Documentation Portal [5].

References

[1]

https://developer.arm.com/docs/100690/latest/attribution-units-sau-and-idau

[2] (1,2)

https://www.actinius.com/icarus-som

[3] (1,2)

https://www.actinius.com/icarus-som-dk

[4]

https://docs.actinius.com/icarus-som/introduction

[5]

https://docs.actinius.com