EFR32BG29 Bluetooth LE 4 dBm DCDC Boost WLCSP (BG29-RB4420A)

Board Overview

EFR32BG29 Bluetooth LE 4 dBm DCDC Boost WLCSP (BG29-RB4420A)

Name:

bg29_rb4420a

Vendor:

Silicon Laboratories

Architecture:

arm

SoC:

efr32bg29b220f1024cj45

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Overview

The EFR32BG29 Bluetooth LE +4 dBm DCDC Boost WLCSP Radio Board is a plug-in board for the Wireless Starter Kit Mainboard (BRD4001A) and the Wireless Pro Kit Mainboard (BRD4002A). It is a complete reference design for the DCDC Boost mode EFR32xG29 Wireless SoC, a matching network and a PCB antenna for 4 dBm output power in the 2.4 GHz band. The EFR32 on the radio board is powered in boost DC-DC configuration from an on-board LDO for improved efficiency and to demonstrate single-cell operation. See Radio Boards for more information about the Wireless Mainboard platform.

Hardware

• EFR32BG29B220F1024CJ45 SoC

• CPU core: ARM Cortex®-M33 with FPU, DSP and TrustZone

• Memory: 1024 kB Flash, 256 kB RAM

• Transmit power: up to +4 dBm

• Operation frequency: 2.4 GHz

• Crystals for LFXO (32.768 kHz) and HFXO (38.4 MHz)

For more information about the EFR32BG29 SoC and BRD4420A board, refer to these documents:

• BG29-RB4420A Website

• BG29-RB4420A User Guide

• EFR32BG29 Website

• EFR32BG29 Datasheet

• EFR32BG29 Reference Manual

Supported Features

The bg29_rb4420a board supports the hardware features listed below.

on-chip / on-board

Feature integrated in the SoC / present on the board.

2 / 2

Number of instances that are enabled / disabled.
Click on the label to see the first instance of this feature in the board/SoC DTS files.

vnd,foo

Compatible string for the Devicetree binding matching the feature.
Click on the link to view the binding documentation.

bg29_rb4420a/efr32bg29b220f1024cj45 target

Type	Location	Description	Compatible
CPU	on-chip	ARM Cortex-M33 CPU1	arm,cortex-m33
ADC	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 IADC1	silabs,gecko-iadc
Bluetooth	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 Bluetooth HCI1	silabs,bt-hci-efr32
Clock control	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 CMU1	silabs,series-clock
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 HFXO1	silabs,hfxo
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 HFRCODPLL1	silabs,series2-hfrcodpll
	on-chip	Generic fixed-rate clock provider3	fixed-clock
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 LFXO1	silabs,series2-lfxo
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 LFRCO1	silabs,series2-lfrco
	on-chip	Generic fixed factor clock provider18	fixed-factor-clock
Comparator	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 ACMP1	silabs,acmp
Cryptographic accelerator	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 SE Mailbox1	silabs,gecko-semailbox
Debug	on-chip	Silicon Labs Packet Trace Interface1	silabs,pti
	on-chip	ARMv8 instrumentation trace macrocell1	arm,armv8m-itm
DMA	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 LDMA1	silabs,ldma
Flash controller	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 MSC1	silabs,series2-flash-controller
GPIO & Headers	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 GPIO Peripheral1	silabs,gpio
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 GPIO Port4	silabs,gpio-port
	on-board	Silicon Labs Kit Expansion Header1	silabs,exp-header
I2C	on-chip	Silabs I2C node2	silabs,i2c
Input	on-board	Group of GPIO-bound input keys1	gpio-keys
Interrupt controller	on-chip	ARMv8-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1	arm,v8m-nvic
LED	on-board	Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1	gpio-leds
	on-board	Group of PWM-controlled LEDs1	pwm-leds
MTD	on-chip	Flash node1	soc-nv-flash
	on-board	Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1	fixed-partitions
	on-board	Properties supporting Zephyr spi-nor flash driver (over the Zephyr SPI API) control of serial flash memories using the standard M25P80-based command set1	jedec,spi-nor
Networking	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 Radio Interface1	silabs,series2-radio
Pin control	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 DBUS Pin Controller1	silabs,dbus-pinctrl
PWM	on-chip	Silicon Labs TIMER PWM5	silabs,timer-pwm
	on-chip	Silicon Labs LETIMER PWM1	silabs,letimer-pwm
Regulator	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 DC-DC converter1	silabs,series2-dcdc
RTC	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 Sleeptimer1	silabs,gecko-stimer
Serial controller	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 USART1 1	silabs,usart-uart
SPI	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 EUSART 1 1	silabs,eusart-spi
SRAM	on-chip	Generic on-chip SRAM1	mmio-sram
Timer	on-chip	ARMv8-M System Tick1	arm,armv8m-systick
	on-chip	Silicon Labs TIMER5	silabs,series2-timer
	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 2 BURTC1	silabs,gecko-burtc
	on-chip	Silicon Labs LETIMER1	silabs,series2-letimer
Watchdog	on-chip	Silicon Labs Series 1-2 WDOG1	silabs,gecko-wdog

System Clock

The EFR32BG29 SoC is configured to use the HFRCODPLL oscillator at 76.8 MHz as the system clock, locked to the 38.4 MHz external crystal oscillator on the board.

Serial Port

The EFR32BG29 SoC has two USARTs and two EUSARTs. USART1 is connected to the board controller and is used for the console.

Programming and Debugging

The bg29_rb4420a board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

	flash	debug	debugserver	rtt	attach
jlink	✅ (default)	✅ (default)	✅	✅	✅
silabs_commander	✅

Connect the BRD4002A mainboard with a mounted BRD4420A radio board to your host computer using the USB port.

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b bg29_rb4420a samples/hello_world
west flash

Open a serial terminal (minicom, putty, etc.) with the following settings:

• Speed: 115200

• Data: 8 bits

• Parity: None

• Stop bits: 1

Reset the board and you should see the following message in the terminal:

Hello World! bg29_rb4420a

Bluetooth

To use Bluetooth functionality, run the command below to retrieve necessary binary blobs from the Silicon Labs HAL repository.

west blobs fetch hal_silabs

Then build the Zephyr kernel and a Bluetooth sample with the following command. The Observer sample application is used in this example.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b bg29_rb4420a samples/bluetooth/observer