EVK-NINA-B5-MCXW716C

Overview

The EVK-NINA-B5 is a compact and scalable development board for rapid prototyping of the NINA-B5 wireless module. It offers easy evaluation of the NINA-B5’s multiprotocol wireless support for Bluetooth LE, Zigbee, Thread and Matter. The board includes an on-board J-link-Link debugger and industry standard headers for easy access to the MCU’s I/Os.

The NINA-B5 module is built on the MCX W71x 96 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33 from NXP.

Hardware

MCXW71 Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller running up to 96 MHz
1MB on-chip Flash memory unit
128 KB TCM RAM
On-board MCU-Link debugger with CMSIS-DAP

For more information about the NINA-B5 module and EVK-NINA-B5 board, see:

Supported Features

The ubx_evkninab5 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_evkninab5/mcxw716c` target

Type	Location	Description	Compatible
CPU	on-chip	ARM Cortex-M33F CPU1	`arm,cortex-m33f`
ADC	on-chip	LPC LPADC1	`nxp,lpc-lpadc`
ARM architecture	on-chip	NXP NBU interruption information1	`nxp,nbu`
Bluetooth	on-chip	NXP BLE HCI information1	`nxp,hci-ble`
CAN	on-chip	NXP FlexCAN controller1	`nxp,flexcan`
Clock control	on-chip	NXP K4 Generation SCG (System Clock Generator) IP node1	`nxp,scg-k4`
Clock control	on-chip	Generic fixed-rate clock provider1	`fixed-clock`
Counter	on-chip	NXP Low Power Periodic Interrupt Timer (LPIT)1	`nxp,lpit`
	on-chip	Child node for the Low Power Periodic Interrupt Timer node, intended for an individual timer channel4	`nxp,lpit-channel`
	on-chip	NXP LPTMR1 1	`nxp,lptmr`
DMA	on-chip	NXP MCUX EDMA controller1	`nxp,mcux-edma`
Flash controller	on-chip	NXP MSF1 Flash Memory Module (FMU)1	`nxp,msf1`
GPIO & Headers	on-chip	Kinetis GPIO3 1	`nxp,kinetis-gpio`
GPIO & Headers	on-board	GPIO pins exposed on Arduino Uno (R3) headers1	`arduino-header-r3`
I2C	on-chip	NXP LPI2C controller2	`nxp,lpi2c`
IEEE 802.15.4	on-chip	NXP MCXW71 IEEE 802.15.4 node1	`nxp,mcxw-ieee802154`
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`
Interrupt controller	on-chip	NXP Wakeup Unit (WUU)1	`nxp,wuu`
LED	on-board	Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1	`gpio-leds`
Miscellaneous	on-chip	NXP FlexIO controller1	`nxp,flexio`
MMU / MPU	on-chip	ARMv8-M MPU (Memory Protection Unit)1	`arm,armv8m-mpu`
MTD	on-chip	Flash node1	`soc-nv-flash`
MTD	on-board	Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1	`fixed-partitions`
Pin control	on-chip	NXP PORT Pin Controller4	`nxp,port-pinmux`
Pin control	on-chip	NXP PORT Pin Controller1	`nxp,port-pinctrl`
Power management	on-chip	NXP Core Mode Controller (CMC)1	`nxp,cmc`
	on-chip	NXP System Power Control (SPC)1	`nxp,spc`
	on-chip	NXP Smart Power Switch (VBAT)1	`nxp,vbat`
PWM	on-chip	MCUX Timer/PWM Module (TPM)2	`nxp,kinetis-tpm`
PWM	on-chip	NXP Flexio PWM controller1	`nxp,flexio-pwm`
Regulator	on-chip	NXP VREF SOC peripheral1	`nxp,vref`
RNG	on-chip	NXP ELE (EdgeLock secure enclave) TRNG (True Random Number Generator)1	`nxp,ele-trng`
RTC	on-chip	NXP Real Time Clock (RTC)1	`nxp,rtc`
Serial controller	on-chip	NXP LPUART2	`nxp,lpuart`
SPI	on-chip	NXP LPSPI controller2	`nxp,lpspi`
SRAM	on-chip	Generic on-chip SRAM2	`mmio-sram`
Timer	on-chip	ARMv8-M System Tick1	`arm,armv8m-systick`
Watchdog	on-chip	NXP watchdog (WDOG32)1 1	`nxp,wdog32`
Watchdog	on-chip	NXP External Watchdog Monitor1	`nxp,ewm`

Fetch Binary Blobs

To support Bluetooth, ubx_evkninab5 requires fetching binary blobs, which can be achieved by running the following command:

west blobs fetch hal_nxp

Note: The EVK-NINA-B5 is preflashed with NBU files.

Programming and Debugging

The ubx_evkninab5 board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

	flash	debug	debugserver	attach	reset	rtt
jlink	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
linkserver	✅ (default)	✅ (default)	✅	✅

Build and flash applications as usual (see Building an Application and Run an Application for more details).

Configuring a Debug Probe

A debug probe is used for both flashing and debugging the board. This board is configured by default to use the MCU-Link CMSIS-DAP Onboard Debug Probe.

Using J-Link

The onboard debug circuit is a Segger J-Link debugger

The second option is to attach a J-Link External Debug Probe to the 10-pin SWD connector (J12) of the board.

For both options use the -r jlink option with west to use the jlink runner.

west flash -r jlink

Configuring a Console

Connect a USB cable from your PC to the USB port, and use the serial terminal of your choice (minicom, putty, etc.) with the following settings:

Speed: 115200
Data: 8 bits
Parity: None
Stop bits: 1

Application Building

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b ubx_evkninab5 samples/basic/button

Application Flashing

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b ubx_evkninab5 samples/hello_world
west flash

Open a serial terminal, reset the board (press the RESET button), and you should see the following message in the terminal:

*** Booting Zephyr OS build v3.7.0-xxx-xxxx ***
Hello World! ubx_evkninab5

Debugging

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b ubx_evkninab5 samples/hello_world
west debug

Open a serial terminal, step through the application in your debugger, and you should see the following message in the terminal:

*** Booting Zephyr OS build v3.7.0-xxx-xxxx ***
Hello World! ubx_evkninab5

NBU Flashing

BLE functionality requires to fetch binary blobs, so make sure to follow the Fetch Binary Blobs section first.

Two images must be written to the board: one for the host (CM33) and one for the NBU (CM3).

To flash the application (CM33) refer to the Application Flashing section above.
To flash the NBU Flashing, follow the instructions below in the NINA-B5 system integration manual available on the NINA-B5 product page [1].

The NBU files can be found in : <zephyr workspace>/modules/hal/nxp/zephyr/blobs/mcxw71/ folder.

For more details: