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UG187: Blue Gecko Wireless Starter Kit
with BGM113 Module

User's Guide for the Blue Gecko 

Bluetooth

® Module Wireless

Starter Kit

The Blue Gecko 

Bluetooth

® Module Wireless Starter Kit is an excellent starting point to

get familiar with the BGM113 Bluetooth Module.

The Wireless Starter Kit Mainboard contains sensors and peripherals demonstrating
some of the BGM113's many capabilities. The kit provides all necessary tools for devel-
oping a Silicon Labs wireless application.

KIT FEATURES

• Supplied with BGM111 Blue Gecko

Bluetooth Module Radio Board BRD4300A

• Supplied with BGM113 Blue Gecko

Bluetooth Module Radio Board BRD4301A

• Ethernet and USB connectivity
• SEGGER J-Link on-board debugger
• Debug Multiplexer supporting external

hardware as well as radio board

• Silicon Labs' Si7021 Relative Humidity and

Temperature sensor

• Ultra low power 128x128 pixel Memory

LCD

• LEDs / Push buttons / Reset button
• 20-pin 2.54 mm header for expansion

boards

• Breakout pads for direct access to all radio

I/O pins

• Power sources include USB and CR2032

coin cell holder.

EXTENSION BOARD FEATURES

• Accelerometer
• Buttons and LEDs
• Joystick
• Footprint for I2C Expansion device

ORDERING INFO

• SLWSTK6101B

RADIO BOARD FEATURES

• BGM113 Blue Gecko Bluetooth Module

with 256 kB Flash and 32 kB RAM. (P/N
BGM113)

• Integrated high performance chip anten-

na

• Transmit power up to +3 dBm
• CPU core 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4

SOFTWARE SUPPORT

• Blue Gecko Bluetooth Software
• Blue Gecko Bluetooth SDK
• Example applications for the kit
• iOS and Android applications

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Summary of Contents for UG187

Page 1: ...d debugger Debug Multiplexer supporting external hardware as well as radio board Silicon Labs Si7021 Relative Humidity and Temperature sensor Ultra low power 128x128 pixel Memory LCD LEDs Push buttons...

Page 2: ...it is done on the radio board itself This means that each radio board has a uniqe mapping to the Wireless Starter Kit peripherals and connectors such as buttons LEDs the display the EXP header and the...

Page 3: ...T USB AEM 2x User Push Buttons 2x User LEDs Simplicity Connector External targets Virtual COM port Packet Trace Advanced Energy Monitoring Debug Connector ARM Coresight 19 pin OUT External targets IN...

Page 4: ...mplicity Connector Debug Connector GPIO Board Controller O U T I N MCU I2C User Buttons LEDs Si7021 Temperature Humidity Sensor SPI ADC Input GPIO Accelerometer BMA280 Analog Joystick Buttons LEDs Foo...

Page 5: ...54 mm pitch pin header can be soldered on for easy access to the pins The figure below shows you how the pins of the BGM113 maps to the pin numbers printed on the breakout pads To see the available f...

Page 6: ...V 3V3 GND PF2 PF3 NC NC NC NC PC11 Board ID SDA Board ID SCL Reserved Board Identification BGM113 I O Pin Alternate function SPI_MOSI SPI_MISO SPI_SCK SPI_CS UART_TX UART_RX I2C_SDA GPIO GPIO I2C_SCL...

Page 7: ...20 19 TMS SWDIO C2D TCK SWCLK C2CK TDO SWO TDI C2Dps TRACECLK TRACED0 TRACED1 TRACED2 TRACED3 RESET C2CKps Vdevice GND NC Cable Detect NC NC GND GND GND 7 GND Figure 4 4 Debug Connector Note that the...

Page 8: ...5V voltage pins are not To monitor the current consumption of an external target with the AEM unplug the WSTK Radio Board from the WSTK Mainboard to avoid that the Radio Board current consumption is a...

Page 9: ...his position no current measurements are active This is the recommended switch position when powering the radio board with an external power source Note Please be aware that the current sourcing capab...

Page 10: ...on to the reset sources mentioned above the Board Controller will also issue a reset to the BGM113 when booting up This means that removing power to the Board Controller plugging out the J Link USB ca...

Page 11: ...nd LED0 shares the connection to GPIO pin PD14 and BUTTON1 and LED1 are both connected to PD15 To use the push buttons as inputs to the BGM113 each button s GPIO pin must be configured as an input Con...

Page 12: ...and lower power consumption The optional factory installed cover offers a low profile convenient means of protecting the sensor during assembly e g reflow soldering and throughout the life of the prod...

Page 13: ..._CLK PD13 USART1_CS No connection Figure 7 1 Connection between the Expansion Board and the BGM113 Module I O Pins The following sections contain more detailed information about each feature 7 1 Accel...

Page 14: ...t the button is being pressed and 1 that the push button is not being pressed Likewise when configured as an output 0 will turn the LED on and 1 will turn it off Pressing a push button will also light...

Page 15: ...tage from the joystick in correspondence with the 9 defined main directions Table 7 1 Joystick Resistor Combinations and Expected Output Voltages in 9 Main Directions Direction Resistor combinations k...

Page 16: ...d signal processing within the kit s board controller before the current sense signal is read by a host computer for display and or storage The current sense amplifier measures the voltage drop over a...

Page 17: ...00 nA The AEM current sampling rate is 10 kHz Note The AEM circuitry only works when the kit is powered and the power switch is in the AEM position 8 4 Usage The AEM Advanced Energy Monitor data is co...

Page 18: ...tual serial communication VCOM the board controller makes communication possible on the following interfaces Virtual USB COM port using a CDC driver TCP IP by connecting to the Wireless STK on port 49...

Page 19: ...cko Module Wireless Starter Kit 124802042 28 03 16 A00 Figure 10 1 Revision info Table 10 1 Kit Revision History Kit Revision Released Description A00 2016 03 28 Initial kit release 10 2 Errata There...

Page 20: ...nt Revision History Revision 1 00 2016 03 28 Initial document revision UG187 Blue Gecko Wireless Starter Kit with BGM113 Module Document Revision History silabs com Smart Connected Energy friendly Rev...

Page 21: ...th which if it fails can be reasonably expected to result in significant personal injury or death Silicon Laboratories products are generally not intended for military applications Silicon Laboratorie...

Page 22: ...Mouser Electronics Authorized Distributor Click to View Pricing Inventory Delivery Lifecycle Information Silicon Laboratories SLWSTK6101B...

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