xGM260P Explorer Kit (MGM260P-EK2713A)

Board Overview

xGM260P Explorer Kit (MGM260P-EK2713A)

Name:

mgm260p_ek2713a

Vendor:

Silicon Laboratories

Architecture:

arm

SoC:

mgm260pd32vna

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Overview

The MGM260P Explorer Kit is a small form factor development and evaluation platform based on the MGM260P Module. The Explorer Kit is focused on rapid prototyping and concept creation of IoT applications for 2.4 GHz wireless protocols including Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth mesh, Zigbee, Thread, and Matter.

Hardware

• MGM260PD32VNA Module

• CPU core: ARM Cortex®-M33 with FPU

• Flash memory: 3200 kB

• RAM: 512 kB

• Transmit power: up to +20 dBm

• Operation frequency: 2.4 GHz

• Crystals for LFXO (32.768 kHz) on the board and HFXO (40 MHz) in the module.

For more information about the MGM260P module and Explorer Kit, refer to these documents:

• MGM260P Datasheet

• EFR32xG26 Reference Manual

• MGM260P-EK2713A User Guide

Supported Features

The mgm260p_ek2713a 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.

mgm260p_ek2713a/mgm260pd32vna target

Type	Location	Description	Compatible
CPU	on-chip	ARM Cortex-M33 CPU1	arm,cortex-m33
ADC	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 IADC1	silabs,iadc
Bluetooth	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 Bluetooth HCI1	silabs,bt-hci-efr32
Clock control	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 CMU1	silabs,series-clock
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 HFRCODPLL1	silabs,series2-hfrcodpll
	on-chip	Generic fixed-rate clock provider3	fixed-clock
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 LFXO1	silabs,series2-lfxo
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 LFRCO1	silabs,series2-lfrco
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 HFRCOEM231	silabs,series2-hfrcoem23
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 HFXO1	silabs,hfxo
	on-chip	Generic fixed factor clock provider22	fixed-factor-clock
Comparator	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 ACMP2	silabs,acmp
Cryptographic accelerator	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 SE Mailbox1	silabs,gecko-semailbox
DAC	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 VDAC 2	silabs,vdac
Debug	on-chip	Silicon Labs Packet Trace Interface1	silabs,pti
	on-chip	ARMv8 instrumentation trace macrocell1	arm,armv8m-itm
DMA	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 LDMA1	silabs,ldma
Flash controller	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 MSC1	silabs,series2-flash-controller
GPIO & Headers	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 GPIO Peripheral1	silabs,gpio
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 GPIO Port4	silabs,gpio-port
	on-board	GPIO pins exposed on Mikro BUS headers1	mikro-bus
	on-board	STEMMA QT is a 4-pin JST-SH connector for I2C devices1	stemma-qt-connector
I2C	on-chip	Silabs I2C node4	silabs,i2c
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
LED	on-board	Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1	gpio-leds
	on-board	Group of PWM-controlled LEDs1	pwm-leds
MMU / MPU	on-chip	ARMv8-M MPU (Memory Protection Unit)1	arm,armv8m-mpu
MTD	on-chip	Flash node1	soc-nv-flash
	on-board	Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1	fixed-partitions
Networking	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 Radio Interface1	silabs,series2-radio
Pin control	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 DBUS Pin Controller1	silabs,dbus-pinctrl
PWM	on-chip	Silicon Labs TIMER PWM2 8	silabs,timer-pwm
	on-chip	Silicon Labs LETIMER PWM1	silabs,letimer-pwm
Regulator	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 DC-DC converter1	silabs,series2-dcdc
Retained memory	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 BURAM1	silabs,buram
RTC	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 SYSRTC1	silabs,sysrtc
Serial controller	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 USART1 2	silabs,usart-uart
SPI	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 EUSART 4	silabs,eusart-spi
SRAM	on-chip	Generic on-chip SRAM1	mmio-sram
Timer	on-chip	ARMv8-M System Tick1	arm,armv8m-systick
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 BURTC1	silabs,gecko-burtc
	on-chip	Silicon Labs TIMER2 8	silabs,series2-timer
	on-chip	Silicon Labs LETIMER1	silabs,series2-letimer
Watchdog	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 1-2 WDOG1 1	silabs,gecko-wdog

System Clock

The MGM260P Module is configured to use the HFRCODPLL oscillator at 80 MHz as the system clock, locked to the 40 MHz crystal oscillator.

Serial Port

The MGM260P Module has 3 USARTs and 4 EUSARTs. USART0 is connected to the board controller and is used for the console.

Programming and Debugging

The mgm260p_ek2713a board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

	flash	debug	rtt	debugserver	attach
jlink	✅ (default)	✅ (default)	✅	✅	✅
silabs_commander	✅

Flashing

Connect the Explorer Kit to your host computer using the USB port.

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b mgm260p_ek2713a samples/hello_world
west flash

Open a serial terminal (minicom, putty, etc.) with the following settings:

• Speed: 115200

• Data: 8 bits

• Parity: None

• Stop bits: 1

Reset the board and you should see the following message in the terminal:

Hello World! mgm260p_ek2713a

Bluetooth

To use Bluetooth functionality, run the command below to retrieve necessary binary blobs from the Silicon Labs HAL repository.

west blobs fetch hal_silabs

Then build the Zephyr kernel and a Bluetooth sample with the following command. The Observer sample application is used in this example.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b mgm260p_ek2713a samples/bluetooth/observer