UG250: Thunderboard Sense User's Guide

2019-09-23

The Thunderboard™ Sense is the ultimate multi-sensor, multi-protocol cloud inspiration kit.
The board is a small and cost effective, feature rich, prototype and development plat-form based on the EFR32™ Mighty Gecko Wireless System-on-Chip. The Thunder-board Sense is an ideal platform for developing energy-friendly connected IoT devices.This is a true multi-protocol capable kit, supporting proprietary stacks and standard pro-tocols such as Zigbee, Thread and Bluetooth® low energy.The Thunderboard Sense ships with a ready to use Bluetooth demo that works with a cloud connected smartphone app, showcasing easy collection of environmental and motion sensor data.A built in SEGGER J-Link debugger ensures easy customization and development.
EFR32 Mighty Gecko Wireless SoC;Fine grained power-control for ultra low power operation;2.4 GHz ceramic chip antenna;Six sensors and four high brightness controllable RGB LEDs;User LEDs/pushbuttons;8-Mbit Flash for OTA programming;SEGGER J-Link on-board debugger;Virtual COM Port;Mini Simplicity connector for AEM and packet trace using external Silicon Labs debugger;20-pin 2.54 mm breakout pads;Power sources include USB, coin cell and external batteries
The Thunderboard Sense (OPN: SLTB001A) has been designed to inspire customers to make battery operated IoT devices with the Silicon Labs EFR32 Mighty Gecko Wireless System-on-Chip. The highlights of the board include six different environmental sensor sand four high brightness RGB LEDs accessible to the EFR32 wireless MCU. The sensors and LEDs have been grouped into power domains that can be turned on and off by the application code as needed. By default, the board starts up in the lowest power operating mode, with all sensors disabled.Programming the Thunderboard Sense is easily done using a USB Micro-B cable and the on-board J-Link debugger. A USB virtual COM port provides a serial connection to the target application. Included on the board is an 8 Mbit serial flash that can be used for Over-The-Air (OTA) firmware upgrade, or as a general purpose non-volatile memory. The Thunderboard Sense is supported in Simplici-ty Studio™, and a Board Support Package (BSP) is provided to give application developers a flying start.Energy profiling and advanced wireless network analysis and debugging tools are available through the provided Mini Simplicity Con-nector using an external Silicon Labs debugger. See AN958 for more information about debugging and programming interfaces that can be used with Silicon Labs' starter kits.Connecting external hardware to the Thunderboard Sense can be done using the 20 breakout pads which present peripherals from the EFR32 Mighty Gecko such as I2C, SPI, UART and GPIOs. The breakout pads follow the same pinout as the expansion headers (EXP) on other Silicon Labs Starter Kits.

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2017-10-10

Rev. 1.1

UG250

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