MAX32655FTHR

Overview

The MAX32655FTHR is a rapid development platform to help engineers quickly implement ultra low-power wireless solutions using MAX32655 Arm© Cortex®-M4F and Bluetooth® 5.2 Low Energy (LE). The board also includes the MAX20303 PMIC for battery and power management. The form factor is a small 0.9in x 2.6in dual-row header footprint that is compatible with Adafruit Feather Wing peripheral expansion boards. The board includes a variety of peripherals, such as a digital microphone, lowpower stereo audio CODEC, 128MB QSPI Flash, micro SD card connector, RGB indicator LED, and pushbutton. The MAX32655FTHR provides a power-optimized flexible platform for quick proof-of-concepts and early software development to enhance time to market. Go to https://www.analog.com/MAX32655FTHR to get started developing with this board.

The Zephyr port is running on the MAX32655 MCU.

MAX32655FTHR Front MAX32655FTHR Front Modules MAX32655FTHR Back

Hardware

  • MAX32655 MCU:

    • Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Microcontroller - Internal 100MHz Oscillator - Flexible Low-Power Modes with 7.3728MHz System Clock Option - 512KB Flash and 128KB SRAM (Optional ECC on One 32KB SRAM Bank) - 16KB Instruction Cache

    • Bluetooth 5.2 LE Radio - Dedicated, Ultra-Low-Power, 32-Bit RISC-V Coprocessor to Offload Timing-Critical Bluetooth Processing - Fully Open-Source Bluetooth 5.2 Stack Available - Supports AoA, AoD, LE Audio, and Mesh - High-Throughput (2Mbps) Mode - Long-Range (125kbps and 500kbps) Modes - Rx Sensitivity: -97.5dBm; Tx Power: +4.5dBm - Single-Ended Antenna Connection (50Ω)

    • Power Management Maximizes Battery Life - 2.0V to 3.6V Supply Voltage Range - Integrated SIMO Power Regulator - Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) - 23.8μA/MHz Active Current at 3.0V - 4.4μA at 3.0V Retention Current for 32KB - Selectable SRAM Retention + RTC in Low-Power Modes

    • Multiple Peripherals for System Control - Up to Two High-Speed SPI Master/Slave - Up to Three High-Speed I2C Master/Slave (3.4Mbps) - Up to Four UART, One I2S Master/Slave - Up to 8-Input, 10-Bit Sigma-Delta ADC 7.8ksps - Up to Four Micro-Power Comparators - Timers: Up to Two Four 32-Bit, Two LP, TwoWatchdog Timers - 1-Wire® Master - Up to Four Pulse Train (PWM) Engines - RTC with Wake-Up Timer - Up to 52 GPIOs

    • Security and Integrity​ - Available Secure Boot - TRNG Seed Generator - AES 128/192/256 Hardware Acceleration Engine

  • External devices connected to the MAX32655FTHR:

    • Audio Stereo Codec Interface

    • Digital Microphone

    • PMIC and Battery Charger

    • A 128Mb QSPI flash

    • Micro SDCard Interface

    • RGB LEDs

    • Push Buttons

Supported Features

Below are the interfaces supported by Zephyr on MAX32655FTHR.

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

NVIC

on-chip

nested vector interrupt controller

SYSTICK

on-chip

systick

CLOCK

on-chip

clock and reset control

GPIO

on-chip

gpio

UART

on-chip

serial

TRNG

on-chip

entropy

I2C

on-chip

i2c

DMA

on-chip

dma controller

Watchdog

on-chip

watchdog

SPI

on-chip

spi

ADC

on-chip

adc

Timer

on-chip

counter

Push Buttons

There are six pushbuttons on the MAX32655FTHR board

SW1

PMIC Power Button, when the board is powered on state, pressing this button for 12 seconds performs a hard powerdown. When the board is in a powered-off state, pressing this button powers on the board. This button can also be read by MAX32655 firmware, PMIC_PFN2 signal connected to Port 0.13 is a buffered input of the button status. When the button is pressed, this signal goes to a logic-low state.

SW2

User-programmable function button connected to MAX32655 Port 0.2 through a debouncer IC.

SW3

User-programmable function button connected to MAX32655 Port 0.3 through a debouncer IC.

SW4

Wake-up button connected to MAX32655 Port 3.1.

SW5

Resets the MAX32655 through RSTN input of the MAX32655.

SW6

DAPLink adapter button. Keep this button pressed while applying power to the board to put the MAX32625 DAPLink adapter on board to MAINTENANCE mode for DAPLink firmware updates.

LEDs

There are three RGB LEDs on the MAX32655FTHR board

LED1 (D1)

Connected to the MAX32655FTHR GPIO ports. This LED can be controlled by user firmware. Port 0.18: Red color Port 0.19: Green color Port 0.26: Blue color

LED2 (D2)

Connected to MAX20303 PMIC LEDx outputs. These LEDs can be controlled through I2C commands. They also can be configured as charge status indicators by issuing I2C commands.

LED3 (D3)

DAPLink adapter MAX32625 status LED. Controlled by the DAPLink adapter and cannot be used as a user LED.

Programming and Debugging

Flashing

The MAX32625 microcontroller on the board is flashed with DAPLink firmware at the factory. It allows debugging and flashing the MAX32655 Arm Core over USB.

Once the USB cable is connected to your host computer, then you can simply run the west flash command to write a firmware image into flash.

Debugging

Please refer to the Flashing section and run the west debug command instead of west flash.

References