Smart Garden Radio Module

Overview

This is a SoM that is used as a radio module by the GARDENA smart gateway (manual, FOSS parts).

Hardware

  • Silicon Labs SiM3U167-B-GM SoC

  • Silicon Labs Si4467 transceiver (via SPI)

  • Controls an RGB LED via high drive pins. It’s expected to mirror the state of 3 low-drive pins coming from the Linux SoC.

  • UART is connected to the Linux SoC. Usually it’s used for PPP, but it can also be used for debugging when PPP is not active.

Supported Features

The sgrm board target supports the following hardware features:

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

NVIC

on-chip

nested vector interrupt controller

SYSTICK

on-chip

systick

DMA

on-chip

dma

FLASH

on-chip

flash memory

GPIO

on-chip

gpio

UART

on-chip

serial port-polling; serial port-interrupt

Connections and IOs

Pin

Name

Note

PB0.0

TX (O)

Serial connection to the Linux SoM

PB0.1

RX (I)

PB0.2

RTS (O)

PB0.3

CTS (I)

PB0.4

LED red (I)

Controlled by the Linux SoM

PB0.5

LED green (I)

PB0.6

LED blue (I)

PB0.13

TX (O)

UART1 for debugging (no connection to Linux SoM)

PB0.14

RX (I)

PB4.0

LED red (O)

Mirrors PB0.4

PB4.1

LED green (O)

Mirrors PB0.5

PB4.2

LED blue (O)

Mirrors PB0.6

Programming and Debugging

Flashing

The easiest way is to do this via SSH from the Linux SoM that’s connected to the SiM3U SoM.

On your building machine:

scp -O build/zephyr/zephyr.hex root@IP:/tmp/

On the gateway:

openocd -f board/gardena_radio.cfg -c 'program /tmp/zephyr.hex verify exit'
reset-rm

Debugging

The easiest way is to do this via SSH from the Linux gateway as well:

openocd -f board/gardena_radio.cfg -c init