Ublox NINA-W1 Series, System Integration Manual

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NINA-W1 series - System integration manual
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Contents
Document information ............................................................................................................................. 2
Contents ....................................................................................................................................................... 3
System description ............................................................................................................................ 5
1.1 Overview ........................................................................................................................................................ 5
1.2 Architecture ................................................................................................................................................. 6
1.2.1 Block diagrams .................................................................................................................................... 6
1.3 CPU................................................................................................................................................................. 7
1.4 Operating modes ......................................................................................................................................... 7
1.4.1 Power modes ....................................................................................................................................... 7
1.4.2 Low power modes with LPO.............................................................................................................. 8
1.5
Supply interfaces ........................................................................................................................................ 9
1.5.1 Module supply design (VCC) ............................................................................................................. 9
1.5.2 Digital I/O interfaces reference voltage (VCC_IO) ........................................................................ 9
1.5.3 VCC application circuits .................................................................................................................... 9
1.6 System function interfaces .................................................................................................................... 10
1.6.1 Boot strapping pins .......................................................................................................................... 10
1.7 Data interfaces .......................................................................................................................................... 10
1.7.1 Universal asynchronous serial interface (UART) ....................................................................... 10
1.7.2 Ethernet (RMII+SMI) ........................................................................................................................ 11
1.7.3 Serial peripheral interface (SPI) ..................................................................................................... 13
1.8 Antenna interfaces ................................................................................................................................... 13
1.8.1 Antenna pin – NINA-W1x1 .............................................................................................................. 13
1.8.2 NINA-W1x2 and W1x6 integrated antennas .............................................................................. 14
1.9 Reserved pins (RSVD) .............................................................................................................................. 14
1.10 GND pins ..................................................................................................................................................... 14
Software ............................................................................................................................................. 15
2.1 NINA-W13 and NINA-W15 u-connectXpress software .................................................................... 15
2.2 s-center evaluation software .................................................................................................................. 16
2.3 SDK for open-CPU modules .................................................................................................................... 16
2.4 Updating NINA-W13 and NINA-W15 .................................................................................................... 16
2.4.1 Updating over UART ........................................................................................................................ 17
2.5 Developing and flashing NINA-W10 open-CPU software ................................................................. 21
2.5.1 Set up Toolchain and ESP-IDF v4 source files ............................................................................ 22
2.5.2 Setup path to ESP-IDF ..................................................................................................................... 22
2.5.3 Build and flash ................................................................................................................................... 23
2.5.4 ESP-IDF Partition table .................................................................................................................... 24
2.5.5 Automatic bootloader on NINA-W10 EVK ................................................................................... 24
2.6 Arduino support for NINA-W10 .............................................................................................................. 24
2.6.1 Downloading the Arduino IDE ......................................................................................................... 24
2.6.2 Downloading from the GIT repository ........................................................................................... 25
2.6.3 Downloading the toolchain ............................................................................................................. 26
2.7 Output power configuration ................................................................................................................... 29