EFR32 BRD4104A (SLWRB4104A)¶
Overview¶
The EFR32BG13 Blue Gecko Bluetooth® Low Energy Radio Board is one of the two radio boards delivered with SLWSTK6020B Bluetooth SoC Starter Kit. It contains a Wireless System-On-Chip from the EFR32BG13 family built on an ARM Cortex®-M4F processor with excellent low power capabilities.
SLWRB4104A (image courtesy of Silicon Labs)¶
The BRD4104A a.k.a. SLWRB4104A radio board plugs into the Wireless Starter Kit Mainboard BRD4001A and is supported as one of EFR32 Radio Boards.
Hardware¶
EFR32BG13P632F512GM48 Blue Gecko SoC
CPU core: ARM Cortex®-M4 with FPU
Flash memory: 512 kB
RAM: 64 kB
Transmit power: up to +10 dBm
Operation frequency: 2.4 GHz
8Mbit SPI NOR Flash
Crystals for LFXO (32.768 kHz) and HFXO (38.4 MHz).
For more information about the EFR32BG13 SoC and BRD4104A board, refer to these documents:
Supported Features¶
Please refer to EFR32 Radio Board Supported Features for details of the configuration and common features supported by the efr32_radio_brd4104a board.
The default configuration can be found in the defconfig file:
boards/arm/efr32_radio/efr32_radio_brd4104a_defconfig
System Clock¶
The EFR32BG13P SoC is configured to use the 38.4 MHz external oscillator on the board.
Serial Port¶
The EFR32BG13P SoC has three USARTs and one Low Energy UARTs (LEUART). USART0 is connected to the board controller and is used for the console.
Programming and Debugging¶
Please refer to Programming and Debugging EFR32 Radio Board for details on the supported debug interfaces.
Flashing¶
Connect the BRD4001A board with a mounted BRD4104A 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 efr32_radio_brd4104a 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! efr32_radio_brd4104a