Microcontrollers
2021-07-09 Friday
Notes On Microcontrollers </center>
Contents
^ Manufacturers of Microcontrollers
Manufacturers visited:
Not yet visited:
- Cypress Semiconductor
- Renesas of Japan
- Silabs
- Dialog
- Qualcomm
^ NordicSemi
An nRF9160 development kit:
Notes on building, flashing to board, and testing example vRF9160 projects and demos:
^ nRF9160 Getting Started Pages
2021-07-20 Tuesday Searching at NordicSemi.com specifically for example code for the nRF9160:
The most important information for firmware starting works at this link for nRF9160 SDK. Note that there is mention of Zephyr RTOS integration:
Hmm, what we thought was a code bundle, code examples has only pre-built binaries. This developers' forum post spells out in detail what was available -- three demos only -- in 2019. See the replies from Nordic's engineer Oyvind:
2021-07-25
This may be the best "getting started" page at Nordic:
^ Hard to locate nRF9160 schematic!
A page at Nordicsemi which links to schematics in a larger downloadable file, or so claimed:
Another link seemingly close to the schematic but not getting us there:
- https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fstruct_nrf91%2Fstruct%2Fnrf91.html
- https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/pdf/nRF9160_DK_HW_User_Guide_v1.0.pdf
^ nRF9160 SDK supported boards
nRF9160 Development Kit (DK) boards:
- https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/zephyr/boards/arm/nrf9160dk_nrf52840/doc/index.html
- https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/zephyr/boards/arm/nrf9160dk_nrf9160/doc/index.html
^ Microcontroller Qualities and Considerations
Low power benchmark testing:
Out of Order Execution:
^ References
Util nrfjprog suppposedly here:
