EVK NINA-B40x
u-blox EVK NINA-B40x
Overview
The u-blox NINA-B4 Evaluation Kit hardware is a Bluetooth low energy module based on the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52833 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
USB
WDT
EVK NINA-B4
More information about the NINA-B4 module and the EVK-NINA-B4 can be found at NINA-B40 product page [1] and EVK-NINA-B4 product page [2].
Supported Features
The ubx_evkninab4 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_evkninab4/nrf52833 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 EGU (Event Generator Unit)6 |
||
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family ACL (Access Control List)1 |
||
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 GPIO2 |
||
on-board |
GPIO pins exposed on Arduino Uno (R3) headers1 |
||
I2C |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family TWI (TWI master)1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family TWIM (TWI master with EasyDMA)1 |
||
I2S |
on-chip |
Nordic I2S (Inter-IC sound interface)1 |
|
IEEE 802.15.4 |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF IEEE 802.15.4 node1 |
|
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 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF52X regulator (high voltage stage of the main 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 UART1 |
|
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family UARTE (UART with EasyDMA)1 |
||
SPI |
on-chip |
||
on-chip |
|||
SRAM |
on-chip |
Generic on-chip SRAM1 |
|
Timer |
on-chip |
ARMv7-M System Tick1 |
|
USB |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF52 USB device controller1 |
|
Watchdog |
on-chip |
Nordic nRF family WDT (Watchdog Timer)1 |
Connections and IOs
LED
LED0 (red) = P0.13
LED1 (green) = P1.01
LED2 (blue) = P1.00
General information on module pin numbering
The numbering of the pins on the module and EVK do not follow the GPIO numbering on the nRF52833 SoC. Please see the NINA-B40 Data Sheet [3] for information on how to map NINA-B40 pins to the pin numbering on the nRF52833 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_evkninab4/nrf52833 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_evkninab4/nrf52833 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.
Using UART1
The following approach can be used when an application needs to use more than one UART for connecting peripheral devices:
Add device tree overlay file to the main directory of your application:
&pinctrl { uart1_default: uart1_default { group1 { psels = <NRF_PSEL(UART_TX, 0, 14)>, <NRF_PSEL(UART_RX, 0, 16)>; }; }; /* required if CONFIG_PM_DEVICE=y */ uart1_sleep: uart1_sleep { group1 { psels = <NRF_PSEL(UART_TX, 0, 14)>, <NRF_PSEL(UART_RX, 0, 16)>; low-power-enable; }; }; }; &uart1 { compatible = "nordic,nrf-uarte"; current-speed = <115200>; status = "okay"; pinctrl-0 = <&uart1_default>; pinctrl-1 = <&uart1_sleep>; pinctrl-names = "default", "sleep"; };
In the overlay file above, pin P0.16 is used for RX and P0.14 is used for TX
Use the UART1 as
DEVICE_DT_GET(DT_NODELABEL(uart1))
Overlay file naming
The file has to be named <board>.overlay and placed in the app main directory to be
picked up automatically by the device tree compiler.
Selecting the pins
Pins can be configured in the board pinctrl file. To see the available mappings, open the data sheet for the NINA-B4 at NINA-B40 Data Sheet [3], Section 3 ‘Pin definition’. In the table 7 select the pins marked ‘GPIO_xx’. Note that pins marked as ‘Radio sensitive pin’ can only be used in under-10KHz applications. They are not suitable for 115200 speed of UART.