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Silicon Labs SLSTK3400A starter kit

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Detailed Description

Support for Silicon Labs SLSTK3400A starter kit.

Overview

Silicon Labs EFM32 Happy Gecko Starter Kit is equipped with the EFM32 microcontroller. It is specifically designed for low-power applications, having energy-saving peripherals, different energy modes and short wake-up times.

The starter kit is equipped with an Advanced Energy Monitor. This allows you to actively measure the power consumption of your hardware and code, in real-time.

Hardware

MCU

MCU EFM32HG322F64
Family ARM Cortex-M0PLUS
Vendor Silicon Labs
Vendor Family EFM32 Happy Gecko
RAM 8.0 KiB
Flash 64.0 KiB
EEPROM no
Frequency up to 24 MHz
FPU no
MPU no
DMA 6 channels
Timers 3x 16-bits
ADCs 12-bit ADC
UARTs 2x USART, 1x LEUART
SPIs 2x USART
I2Cs 1x
Vcc 1.98 V - 3.8 V
Datasheet Datasheet
Manual Manual
Board Manual Board Manual
Board Schematic Can be downloaded using Silicon Labs' Simplicity Studio

Pinout

This is the pinout of the expansion header on the right side of the board. PIN 1 is the bottom-left contact when the header faces you horizontally.

PIN PIN
3V3 20 19 RES
5V 18 17 RES
PD6 16 15 PD7
PD5 14 13 PA1
PD4 12 11 PB11
PE13 10 9 PA2
PE12 8 7 PC2
PE11 6 5 PC1
PE10 4 3 PC0
VMCU 2 1 GND

Note**: not all starter kits by Silicon Labs share the same pinout!

Note:** some pins are connected to the board controller, when enabled!

Peripheral mapping

Peripheral Number Hardware Pins Comments
ADC 0 ADC0 CHAN0: internal temperature Ports are fixed, 14/16-bit resolution not supported
I2C 0 I2C0 SDA: PD6, CLK: PD7 I2C_SPEED_LOW and I2C_SPEED_HIGH clock speed deviate
HWCRYPTO AES128
RTT RTCC 1 Hz interval. Either RTT or RTC (see below)
RTC RTCC 1 Hz interval. Either RTC or RTT (see below)
SPI 0 USART0 MOSI: PE10, MISO: PE11, CLK: PE12
Timer 0 TIMER0 + TIMER1 TIMER0 is used as prescaler (must be adjacent)
UART 0 USART1 RX: PA0, TX: PF2 Default STDIO output
1 LEUART0 RX: PD5, TX: PD4 Baud rate limited (see below)

User interface

Peripheral Mapped to Pin Comments
Button PB0 PC9
PB1 PC10
LED LED0 PF4 Yellow LED
LED1 PF5 Yellow LED

Implementation Status

Device ID Supported Comments
MCU EFM32HG yes Power modes supported
Low-level driver ADC yes
Flash yes
GPIO yes Interrupts are shared across pins (see reference manual)
HW Crypto yes
I2C yes
PWM yes
RTC yes As RTT or RTC
SPI partially Only master mode
Timer yes
UART yes USART is shared with SPI. LEUART baud rate limited (see below)
USB no
LCD driver LS013B7DH03 yes Sharp Low Power Memory LCD via the U8g2 package
Temperature + humidity sensor Si7021 yes Silicon Labs Temperature + Humidity sensor

Board configuration

Board controller

The starter kit is equipped with a Board Controller. This controller provides a virtual serial port. The board controller is enabled via a GPIO pin.

By default, this pin is enabled. You can disable the board controller module by passing DISABLE_MODULE=silabs_bc to the make command.

Note:** to use the virtual serial port, ensure you have the latest board controller firmware installed.

Note:** the board controller always configures the virtual serial port at 115200 baud with 8 bits, no parity and one stop bit. This also means that it expects data from the MCU with the same settings.

Clock selection

There are several clock sources that are available for the different peripherals. You are advised to read AN0004.0 to get familiar with the different clocks.

Source Internal Speed Comments
HFRCO Yes 14 MHz Enabled during startup, changeable
HFXO No 24 MHz
LFRCO Yes 32.768 kHz
LFXO No 32.768 kHz
ULFRCO No 1 kHz Not very reliable as a time source

The sources can be used to clock following branches:

Branch Sources Comments
HF HFRCO, HFXO Core, peripherals
LFA LFRCO, LFXO Low-power timers
LFB LFRCO, LFXO, CORELEDIV2 Low-power UART

CORELEDIV2 is a source that depends on the clock source that powers the core. It is divided by 2 or 4 to not exceed maximum clock frequencies (EMLIB takes care of this).

The frequencies mentioned in the tables above are specific for this starter kit.

It is important that the clock speeds are known to the code, for proper calculations of speeds and baud rates. If the HFXO or LFXO are different from the speeds above, ensure to pass EFM32_HFXO_FREQ=freq_in_hz and EFM32_LFXO_FREQ=freq_in_hz to your compiler.

You can override the branch's clock source by adding CLOCK_LFA=source to your compiler defines, e.g. CLOCK_LFA=cmuSelect_LFRCO.

Low-power peripherals

The low-power UART is capable of providing an UART peripheral using a low-speed clock. When the LFB clock source is the LFRCO or LFXO, it can still be used in EM2. However, this limits the baud rate to 9600 baud. If a higher baud rate is desired, set the clock source to CORELEDIV2.

Note:** peripheral mappings in your board definitions will not be affected by this setting. Ensure you do not refer to any low-power peripherals.

RTC or RTT

RIOT-OS has support for Real-Time Tickers and Real-Time Clocks.

However, this board MCU family has support for a 24-bit Real-Time Counter only, which is a ticker only. A compatibility layer for ticker-to-calendar is available, but this includes extra code size to convert from timestamps to time structures and visa versa.

Configured at 1 Hz interval, the RTC will overflow each 194 days. When using the ticker-to-calendar mode, this interval is extended artificially.

Hardware crypto

This MCUs has support for hardware-accelerated AES128.

A peripheral driver interface is proposed, but not yet implemented.

Usage of EMLIB

This port makes uses of EMLIB by Silicon Labs to abstract peripheral registers. While some overhead is to be expected, it ensures proper setup of devices, provides chip errata and simplifies development. The exact overhead depends on the application and peripheral usage, but the largest overhead is expected during peripheral setup. A lot of read/write/get/set methods are implemented as inline methods or macros (which have no overhead).

Another advantage of EMLIB are the included assertions. These assertions ensure that peripherals are used properly. To enable this, pass DEBUG_EFM to your compiler.

Pin locations

The EFM32 platform supports peripherals to be mapped to different pins (predefined locations). The definitions in periph_conf.h mostly consist of a location number and the actual pins. The actual pins are required to configure the pins via GPIO driver, while the location is used to map the peripheral to these pins.

In other words, these definitions must match. Refer to the data sheet for more information.

Flashing the device

To flash, SEGGER JLink is required.

Flashing is supported by RIOT-OS using the command below:

make flash

To run the GDB debugger, use the command:

make debug

Or, to connect with your own debugger:

make debug-server

Some boards have (limited) support for emulation, which can be started with:

make emulate

Supported Toolchains

For using the Silicon Labs SLSTK3400A starter kit we strongly recommend the usage of the GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors toolchain.

License information

Silicon Labs' EMLIB: zlib-style license (permits distribution of source).

Files

file  board.h
 Board specific definitions for the SLSTK3400A starter kit.
 
file  gpio_params.h
 Board specific configuration of direct mapped GPIOs.
 
file  periph_conf.h
 Configuration of CPU peripherals for the SLSTK3400A starter kit.