
Bx600 Series of Breakout Boards for BL600 module
User Guide
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Laird has produced a new series of breakout boards for the BL600 modules. The basic product is a PCB carrier
board (breakout board) with a BL600-SA-07 version module soldered on it to enable rapid prototyping
capabilities and help advance the product design cycle. The three part numbers from this series represent BOM
(bill of material) variants of a basic core design.
The boards, in order from greatest to least additional hardware, are the BA600, BC600, and BB600 and are
shown below for reference:
BA600
BB600
BC600
BL600 breakout board with integrated coin
cell holder and Laird FTDI USB-UART bridge
board
BL600 breakout
board
BL600 breakout board with integrated
coin cell holder
Each of the breakout boards uses the latest BL600 module variant (top level part # BL600-SA-07) which takes
advantage of Nordic’s third generation silicon (nRF51822-QFAA-Hx0 – 256k memory/16k RAM QFN). The BL600-
SA-07 module also integrates Laird’s smartBASIC firmware image v1.8.88.0. The BL600 Release Notes – v1.8.88.0
document (available from the Documentation tab of the
BL600 product page
) identifies additional features and
improvements available with this firmware image. One key benefit of the v1.8.88.0 FW image is that firmware
upgrades can now be completed 100% over the UART interface, regardless of whether the underlying Nordic
soft device has changed.
O
VERVIEW
The Laird Bx600 series of BLE breakout boards provides a platform for rapid wireless connectivity prototyping,
providing multiple options for the development of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) applications based on Laird’s
BL600 BTv4.0 single mode modules. More information regarding this product series including a detailed BL600
Hardware Integration Guide and smartBASIC Core and BL600 firmware-specific User Guides are available from
the Documentation tab of the Laird
BL600 product pages.
The breakout board kit hardware is offered with the Laird BL600-SA-07 (or higher) hardware variant and
smartBASIC runtime engine FW version v1.8.88.0 or greater.
2.1
BA600
The BA600 variant incorporates all hardware options available in the BL600 Breakout Board design, subsequent
sections
2.2. BC600
and
2.3. BB600
will only list differences from this main description: