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The Laird BL654PA Development Kit provides a platform for rapid wireless connectivity prototyping, providing multiple options
for the development of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) plus Near Field Communication (NFC) applications.
The Laird BLE development kit is designed to support the rapid development of applications and software for the BL654PA
series of BLE modules featuring Laird’s innovative event driven programming language –
smart
BASIC. More information
regarding this product series including a detailed module user’s guide and
smart
BASIC user guides are available on Laird’s
BL654PA product page:
https://www.lairdconnect.com/wireless-modules/bluetooth-modules/bluetooth-5-modules/bl654-pa-
This document is applicable to the version of development board which has PCB silk screen text DVK-BL654PA-R2.0.
Part Number
Product Description
455-00022
Development Kit for 453-00020 module
– Integrated antenna
455-00023
Development Kit for the 453-00021 module
– External antenna
Applicable to the following BL654PA module part numbers:
Part Number
Product Description
453-00020R or C
Bluetooth v5 PA module
– Integrated antenna
453-00021R or C
Bluetooth v5 PA module
– External antenna
All kits contain the following items:
Development Board
The development board has the required BL654PA module soldered onto it and exposes all
available hardware interfaces.
Power Options
▪
USB cable
– Type A to micro type B. The cable also provides serial communications via
the FTDI USB
– RS232 converter chip on the board.
▪
DC barrel plug for connection to external power supply (5.5 VDC max)
▪
3x AAA battery holder fitted on underside of development board
▪
Coin-cell holder (powers module only) fitted on underside of development board
Two-pin jumpers
for pin headers (5)
Five jumpers for 2.54 mm pitch headers used on BL654PA development board.
Fly leads (6)
Supplied (1 by 1 female to female jumper cable) to allow simple connection of any BL654PA
module pins (available on plated though holes or headers on J44, J47, J48, J41, J29, J1, J12,
J1, J5, J17, J21, J6 and J36).
External BLE
antenna
Supplied with development kit part # 455-00023 only.
External antenna, 2 dBi, FlexPIFA (Laird part #001-0022) with integral RF coaxial cable with 100
mm length and IPEX-4 compatible RF connector.
External NFC
antenna
Laird NFC flexi-PCB antenna
– Part # 0600-00061
This section describes the BL654PA development board hardware. The BL654PA development board is delivered with the
BL654PA series module loaded with integrated
smart
BASIC runtime engine firmware but no onboard
smart
BASIC; because of
this it starts up in AT command mode by default.
Applications in
smart
BASIC are simple and easy to develop for any BLE application. Sample
smart
BASIC applications scripts
are available to download from the Laird GitHub repository on the BL654PA product page at
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