EFR32MG12 2400/868-915 MHz 19 dBm Dual Band (SLWRB4170A)
Overview
The EFR32MG12 Mighty Gecko Radio Board contains a Wireless System-On-Chip from the EFR32MG12 family built on an ARM Cortex®-M4F processor with excellent low power capabilities.
The BRD4170A a.k.a. SLWRB4170A radio board plugs into the Wireless Starter Kit Mainboard BRD4001A and is supported as one of Radio Boards.
Hardware
EFR32MG12P433F1024GM68 Mighty Gecko SoC
CPU core: ARM Cortex®-M4 with FPU
Flash memory: 1024 kB
RAM: 256 kB
Transmit power: up to +19 dBm
Operation frequency: 2.4 GHz and Sub-Ghz
Crystals for LFXO (32.768 kHz) and HFXO (38.4 MHz).
For more information about the EFR32MG12 SoC and BRD4170A board, refer to these documents:
Supported Features
The slwrb4170a board supports the hardware features listed below.
- on-chip / on-board
- Feature integrated in the SoC / present on the board.
- 2 / 2
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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.
slwrb4170a/efr32mg12p433f1024gm68 target
Type |
Location |
Description |
Compatible |
|---|---|---|---|
CPU |
on-chip |
ARM Cortex-M4F CPU1 |
|
Bluetooth |
on-chip |
Bluetooth HCI on Silabs boards1 |
|
Flash controller |
on-chip |
Silicon Labs Gecko flash controller1 |
|
GPIO & Headers |
on-chip |
SiLabs Gecko GPIO1 |
|
on-chip |
|||
I2C |
on-chip |
Silabs Gecko I2C2 |
|
Input |
on-board |
Group of GPIO-bound input keys1 |
|
Interrupt controller |
on-chip |
ARMv7-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1 |
|
LED |
on-board |
Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1 |
|
MTD |
on-chip |
Flash node1 |
|
on-board |
Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1 |
||
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 |
||
Pin control |
on-chip |
The Silabs pin controller is a singleton node responsible for controlling pin function selection and pin properties1 |
|
PWM |
on-chip |
Silabs Gecko PWM port1 |
|
RNG |
on-chip |
GECKO TRNG (True Random Number Generator)1 |
|
RTC |
on-chip |
Silabs Gecko RTCC (Real-Time Counter)1 |
|
Serial controller |
on-chip |
||
on-chip |
Gecko LEUART1 |
||
SPI |
on-chip |
Silabs USART SPI1 |
|
SRAM |
on-chip |
Generic on-chip SRAM description1 |
|
Timer |
on-chip |
ARMv7-M System Tick1 |
|
Watchdog |
on-chip |
Connections and IOs
In the following table, the column Pin contains Pin names. For example, PA2 means Pin number 2 on PORTA, as used in the board’s datasheets and manuals.
Pin |
Function |
Usage |
|---|---|---|
PF4 |
GPIO |
LED0 |
PF5 |
GPIO |
LED1 |
PF6 |
GPIO |
Push Button PB0 |
PF7 |
GPIO |
Push Button PB1 |
PA5 |
GPIO |
Board Controller Enable VCOM_ENABLE |
PA0 |
USART0_TX |
UART Console VCOM_TX US0_TX #0 |
PA1 |
USART0_RX |
UART Console VCOM_RX US0_RX #0 |
PC6 |
SPI_MOSI |
Flash MOSI US1_TX #11 |
PC7 |
SPI_MISO |
Flash MISO US1_RX #11 |
PC8 |
SPI_SCLK |
Flash SCLK US1_CLK #11 |
PA4 |
SPI_CS |
Flash Chip Select (GPIO) |
System Clock
The EFR32MG12P SoC is configured to use the 38.4 MHz external oscillator on the board.
Serial Port
The EFR32MG12P SoC has four USARTs and one Low Energy UARTs (LEUART). USART0 is connected to the board controller and is used for the console.
Programming and Debugging
Flashing
Connect the BRD4001A board with a mounted BRD4170A radio module 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 slwrb4170a 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! slwrb4170a