EVK NINA-B11x
u-blox EVK NINA-B11x
Overview
The u-blox NINA-B1 Evaluation Kit hardware is a Bluetooth low energy module based on the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52832 ARM Cortex-M4F CPU and has support for the following features:
ADC
CLOCK
FLASH
GPIO
I2C
MPU
NVIC
PWM
RADIO (Bluetooth Low Energy)
RTC
Segger RTT (RTT Console)
SPI
UART
WDT
EVK NINA-B1
More information about the NINA-B1 module and the EVK NINA-B1 can be found at NINA-B1 product page [1] and EVK-NINA-B1 product page [2].
Supported Features
The ubx_evkninab1 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.
ubx_evkninab1/nrf52832 target
Type |
Location |
Description |
Compatible |
|---|---|---|---|
CPU |
on-chip |
ARM Cortex-M4F CPU1 |
|
ADC |
on-chip |
Nordic Semiconductor nRF family SAADC node1 |
|
on-board |
ADC channels exposed on Arduino Uno (R3) headers1 |
||
ARM architecture |
on-chip |
Nordic UICR (User Information Configuration Registers)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family BPROT (Block Protection)1 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic EGU (Event Generator Unit)6 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family MWU (Memory Watch Unit)1 |
||
Audio |
on-chip |
Nordic PDM (Pulse Density Modulation interface)1 |
|
Clock control |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF clock control node1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF high-frequency crystal oscillator (nRF52 series)1 |
||
Comparator |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF COMP (analog COMParator)1 |
|
Counter |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF timer node5 |
|
Cryptographic accelerator |
on-chip |
Nordic ECB (AES electronic codebook mode encryption)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family CCM (AES CCM mode encryption)1 |
||
Debug |
on-chip |
ARMv7 instrumentation trace macrocell1 |
|
Flash controller |
on-chip |
Nordic NVMC (Non-Volatile Memory Controller)1 |
|
GPIO & Headers |
on-chip |
NRF5 GPIOTE1 |
|
on-chip |
NRF5 GPIO1 |
||
on-board |
GPIO pins exposed on Arduino Uno (R3) headers1 |
||
I2C |
on-chip |
||
I2S |
on-chip |
Nordic I2S (Inter-IC sound interface)1 |
|
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 |
|
on-board |
Group of PWM-controlled LEDs1 |
||
Miscellaneous |
on-chip |
Nordic FICR (Factory Information Configuration Registers)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family PPI (Programmable Peripheral Interconnect)1 |
||
MTD |
on-chip |
Flash node1 |
|
on-board |
Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1 |
||
Networking |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family RADIO peripheral1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family NFCT (Near Field Communication Tag)1 |
||
Pin control |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family Pin Controller1 |
|
Power management |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF power control node1 |
|
PWM |
on-chip |
||
on-chip |
nRFx S/W PWM1 |
||
Regulator |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF5X regulator (fixed stage of the core supply)1 |
|
Retained memory |
on-chip |
Nordic GPREGRET (General Purpose Register Retention) device2 |
|
RNG |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family RNG (Random Number Generator)1 |
|
RTC |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF RTC (Real-Time Counter)3 |
|
Sensors |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family TEMP node1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF quadrature decoder (QDEC) node1 |
||
Serial controller |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family UARTE (UART with EasyDMA)1 |
|
SPI |
on-chip |
||
SRAM |
on-chip |
Generic on-chip SRAM1 |
|
Timer |
on-chip |
ARMv7-M System Tick1 |
|
Watchdog |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family WDT (Watchdog Timer)1 |
Note
Most Arduino interfaces are supported. Arduino pins D5 and D8 are not available, so arduino_gpio is disabled. On the EVK-NINA-B1, these pins are assigned to SWDIO and SWDCLK, respectively.
Connections and IOs
LED
LED0 (red) = P0.08
LED1 (green) = P0.16
LED2 (blue) = P0.18
General information on module pin numbering
The numbering of the pins on the module and EVK do not follow the GPIO numbering on the nRF52832 SoC. Please see the NINA-B1 Data Sheet [3] for information on how to map NINA-B1 pins to the pin numbering on the nRF52832 SoC.
The reason for this is the u-blox module family concept where different modules share the same pinout and can be interchanged, see NINA module family Nested design [4].
Programming and Debugging
Applications for the ubx_evkninab1/nrf52832 board configuration can be
built and flashed in the usual way (see Building an Application
and Run an Application for more details); however, the standard
debugging targets are not currently available.
Flashing
Build and flash applications as usual (see Building an Application and Run an Application for more details).
Here is an example for the Hello World application.
Open a terminal program to the USB Serial Port installed when connecting the board and listen for output.
Settings: 115200, 8N1, no flow control.
Then build and flash the application in the usual way.
# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b ubx_evkninab1/nrf52832 samples/hello_world
west flash
Debugging
Refer to the Nordic nRF5x Segger J-Link page to learn about debugging boards containing a Nordic Semiconductor chip with a Segger IC.