EFR32xG24 2.4 GHz 20 dBm (xG24-RB4187C)

Board Overview

EFR32xG24 2.4 GHz 20 dBm (xG24-RB4187C)

Name:

xg24_rb4187c

Vendor:

Silicon Laboratories

Architecture:

arm

SoC:

efr32mg24b220f1536im48

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Overview

The EFR32MG24 Mighty Gecko Radio Board is one of the two radio boards delivered with xG24-PK6010A Website. It contains a Wireless System-On-Chip from the EFR32MG24 family built on an ARM Cortex®-M33F processor with excellent low power capabilities.

The BRD4187C a.k.a. xG24-RB4187C radio board plugs into the Wireless Pro Kit Mainboard BRD4002A and is supported as one of Radio Boards.

Hardware

• EFR32MG24B220F1536IM48 Mighty Gecko SoC

• CPU core: ARM Cortex®-M33 with FPU

• Flash memory: 1536 kB

• RAM: 256 kB

• Transmit power: up to +20 dBm

• Operation frequency: 2.4 GHz

• Crystals for LFXO (32.768 kHz) and HFXO (39 MHz).

For more information about the EFR32MG24 SoC and BRD4187C board, refer to these documents:

• EFR32MG24 Website

• EFR32MG24 Datasheet

• EFR32xG24 Reference Manual

• xG24-PK6010A Website

• BRD4187C User Guide

Supported Features

The xg24_rb4187c 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.

xg24_rb4187c/efr32mg24b220f1536im48 target

Type	Location	Description	Compatible
CPU	on-chip	ARM Cortex-M33 CPU1	arm,cortex-m33
ADC	on-chip	Silicon Labs Gecko Family IADC1	silabs,gecko-iadc
Bluetooth	on-chip	Bluetooth HCI on Silabs boards1	silabs,bt-hci-efr32
Clock control	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2+ clock control node1	silabs,series-clock
	on-chip	Generic fixed-rate clock provider3	fixed-clock
	on-chip	Generic fixed-rate clock provider1	silabs,hfxo
	on-chip	Silicon Labs LFXO peripheral (low-frequency crystal oscillator)1	silabs,series2-lfxo
	on-chip	Silicon Labs HFRCODPLL peripheral (high-frequency RC oscillator with digital phase-locked loop)1	silabs,series2-hfrcodpll
	on-chip	Silicon Labs HFRCOEM23 peripheral (high-frequency RC oscillator with energy mode 2 and 3 capability)1	silabs,series2-hfrcoem23
	on-chip	Silicon Labs LFRCO peripheral (low-frequency RC oscillator)1	silabs,series2-lfrco
	on-chip	Generic fixed factor clock provider20	fixed-factor-clock
Comparator	on-chip	Silabs ACMP (Analog Comparator)1	silabs,acmp
Cryptographic accelerator	on-chip	Silicon Labs Secure Element mailbox node1	silabs,gecko-semailbox
Display	on-board	Sharp memory display controller1	sharp,ls0xx
DMA	on-chip	Silabs LDMA controller1	silabs,ldma
Flash controller	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 flash controller1	silabs,series2-flash-controller
GPIO & Headers	on-chip	SiLabs Gecko GPIO1	silabs,gecko-gpio
	on-chip	SiLabs Gecko GPIO Port4	silabs,gecko-gpio-port
I2C	on-chip	Silabs Gecko I2C1	silabs,gecko-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
MTD	on-chip	Flash node1	soc-nv-flash
	on-board	Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1	fixed-partitions
	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
Networking	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 radio interface1	silabs,series2-radio
Pin control	on-chip	The Silabs pin controller is a singleton node responsible for controlling pin function selection and pin properties1	silabs,dbus-pinctrl
Regulator	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 DC-DC converter1	silabs,series2-dcdc
	on-board	Fixed voltage regulators1	regulator-fixed
RTC	on-chip	Silabs Gecko Sleep Timer (Real-Time Counter)1	silabs,gecko-stimer
Sensors	on-board	Silicon Labs Si7006 Humidity and Temperature Sensor1	silabs,si7006
Serial controller	on-chip	Silabs USART UART1	silabs,usart-uart
SPI	on-chip	Silabs EUSART SPI1 1	silabs,eusart-spi
SRAM	on-chip	Generic on-chip SRAM description1	mmio-sram
Timer	on-chip	ARMv8-M System Tick1	arm,armv8m-systick
	on-chip	SiLabs Gecko BURTC timer1	silabs,gecko-burtc
Watchdog	on-chip	Silicon Labs Gecko Family Watchdog driver1 1	silabs,gecko-wdog

System Clock

The EFR32MG24 SoC is configured to use the HFRCODPLL oscillator at 78 MHz as the system clock, locked to the 39 MHz external crystal oscillator on the board.

Serial Port

The EFR32MG24 SoC has one USART and two EUSARTs. USART0 is connected to the board controller and is used for the console.

Programming and Debugging

Flashing

Connect the BRD4002A board with a mounted BRD4187C 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 xg24_rb4187c 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! xg24_rb4187c