nPM6001 EK

Overview

This sample is provided as an example to test the nPM6001 EK. The sample provides a shell interface that allows to test multiple functionalities offered by the nPM6001 PMIC, including:

Regulators (BUCK0/1/2/3 and LDO0/1)
GPIO
Watchdog

Requirements

The shield needs to be wired to a host board supporting the Arduino connector. Below you can find a wiring example for the nRF52840 DK:

Building and Running

The sample is designed so that it can run on any platform. For example, when building for the nRF52840 DK, the following command can be used:

west build -b nrf52840dk/nrf52840 samples/shields/npm6001_ek

Note that this sample automatically sets SHIELD to npm6001_ek. Once flashed, you should boot into the shell interface. The npm6001 command is provided to test the PMIC. Below you can find details for each subcommand.

Regulators

The npm6001 shell interface provides the regulator subcommand to test the regulators embedded in the PMIC (BUCK0/1/2/3 and LDO0/1). Below you can find some command examples.

# list all the available regulators
npm6001 regulator list
BUCK0
BUCK1
BUCK2
BUCK3
LDO0
LDO1

# list all the supported voltages by BUCK2
npm6001 regulator voltages BUCK2
mV
mV
mV
mV
mV

# enable BUCK3
npm6001 regulator enable BUCK3
# disable BUCK3
npm6001 regulator disable BUCK3

# set BUCK3 voltage to exactly 3000 mV
npm6001 regulator set BUCK3 3000
# obtain the actual BUCK3 configured voltage
npm6001 regulator get BUCK3
3000 mV
# set BUCK0 voltage to a value between 2350 mV and 2450 mV
npm6001 regulator set BUCK0 2350 2450
# obtain the actual BUCK0 configured voltage
npm6001 regulator get BUCK3
2400 mV

# set BUCK0 to hysteretic mode
npm6001 regulator modeset BUCK0 hys
# set BUCK0 to PWM mode
npm6001 regulator modeset BUCK0 pwm

# get BUCK0 mode
npm6001 regulator modeget BUCK0
Hysteretic

# get active errors on BUCK0
npm6001 regulator errors BUCK0
Overcurrent:    [ ]
Overtemp.:      [ ]

GPIO

The npm6001 shell interface provides the gpio subcommand to test the GPIO functionality offered by the PMIC. Below you can find some command examples.

# configure GPIO 0 as output
npm6001 gpio configure -p 0 -d out
# configure GPIO 0 as output (init high)
npm6001 gpio configure -p 0 -d outh
# configure GPIO 0 as output (init low)
npm6001 gpio configure -p 0 -d outl
# configure GPIO 0 as output with high-drive mode enabled
npm6001 gpio configure -p 0 -d out --high-drive
# configure GPIO 1 as input
npm6001 gpio configure -p 1 -d input
# configure GPIO 1 as input with pull-down enabled
npm6001 gpio configure -p 1 -d input --pull-down
# configure GPIO 1 as input with CMOS mode enabled
npm6001 gpio configure -p 1 -d input --cmos

# get GPIO 1 level
npm6001 gpio get 1

# set GPIO 0 high
npm6001 gpio set 0 1
# set GPIO 0 low
npm6001 gpio set 0 0

# toggle GPIO 0
npm6001 gpio toggle 0

Watchdog

The npm6001 shell interface provides the wdt subcommand to test the Watchdog functionality offered by the PMIC. Below you can find some command examples.

# enable watchdog, timeout set to 8 seconds. Timeout will be rounded up to
# the resolution of the watchdog, e.g. 10s -> 12s.
npm6001 wdt enable 8000
# disable watchdog
npm6001 wdt disable
# kick/feed watchdog
npm6001 wdt kick

Note

When the watchdog reset pin is connected to your board reset, you will see how Zephyr reboots after the watchdog timeout expires.