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DKBLE USER GUIDE Monday, 19 May 2014 Version 1.0...
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The WRAP is a registered trademark of Bluegiga Technologies The Bluetooth trademark is owned by the Bluetooth SIG Inc., USA and is licensed to Bluegiga Technologies. All other trademarks listed herein are owned by their respective owners. Bluegiga Technologies Oy...
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VERSION HISTORY Version Comment First published version Bluegiga Technologies Oy...
Minimizing the Current Consumption ....................9 Sensors, display and USB to UART converter ..................9 Getting Started With DKBLE ........................10 Using the On-Board Debugger to Program the Carriers ..............10 Using the On-Board Debugger to Program External BLE Devices ........... 11 Using the Analog Comparator of BLExxx modules ................
Current measurement points for measuring peak currents of the module, DC current of the module and DC current of the whole board. The block diagram of DKBLE is shown in the Figure 1. Please, refer to the latest data sheets for information about Bluegiga’s Bluetooth 4.0 single mode modules.
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UART, USB and CC-Debugger interfaces. To program an external BLExxx device, The board can be powered from any of switch to ”OUTPUT” these USB lines. Figure 2: DKBLE interfaces Figure 3: BLE121LR module carrier Bluegiga Technologies Oy Page 6 of 20...
P1_7 is reserved for this purpose and in case of BLE121LR it can only be used as an output controlling the external DCDC. Thus in BLE121LR P1_7 is named as DCDC CNTRL. The important differences between the carriers are shown in the Figure 4 (BLE112 and BLE113 carriers) and Figure 5 (BLE121LR carrier). Bluegiga Technologies Oy Page 7 of 20...
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Figure 4: Connections in BLE112 and BLE113 Carriers 2V…3V3 2V…3V3 BLE121LR CARRIER USB- Not Connected 1.5k P0_7 DISPLAY Not connected FLASH to BLE121LR SPI MISO P1_4 Figure 5: Connections in the BLE121LR Carrier Bluegiga Technologies Oy Page 8 of 20...
1.2.2 Minimizing the Current Consumption In all Carriers pin P1_4 is externally pulled down by the pull-down resistor in DKBLE. The purpose of this resistor is to avoid leakage when using the display. Note that any PIO’s configured as peripherals do not have internal pull-down or pull-up capability and thus, when left floating, they will require external pull-down resistor.
2 Getting Started With DKBLE By default the modules delivered with the DKBLE have demonstration FW which prints the temperature to the display and starts automatically advertising. Several example applications are provided with the SDK package downloadable in the Bluegiga web pages.
The analog comparator of BLE112, BLE113 and BLE121LR is fixed to the pins P0_4 (-) and P0_5 (+). The pins overlap with the UART TX and RX signals in DKBLE. Thus to use the analog comparator the USB to UART converter must be turned off. Refer to Bluetooth Smart Software API Reference for details about the analog comparator configurations.
“CURRENT MEAS OFF<->ON to avoid excessive leakage current into the input of the amplifier. NOTE: Peak current measurement is not possible when the external DCDC is used A=10 Figure 11: TX current measurement amplifier Bluegiga Technologies Oy Page 12 of 20...
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The instrumentation amplifier inverts the signal. The current consumption is calculated by NOTE: Because of the limited common mode input range of the instrumentation amplifier the peak current can only be measured when powering the module from USB. Bluegiga Technologies Oy Page 13 of 20...
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