Support for the MikroE 6LoWPAN Clicker. More...

Detailed Description

Support for the MikroE 6LoWPAN Clicker.

Overview

The 6lowpan clicker is an evaluation board by Mikroe featuring a PIC32MX470F512H, a 6lowpan radio (CA810) by Cascoda and a Mikrobus socket for expansion boards.

More general information on the board and related documentation can be found here. Schematics for the board can be found in the manual.

Hardware

MCU

MCU	PIC32MX470F512H
Family	PIC32MX (MIPS M4K)
Vendor	Microchip
RAM	128KiB
Flash	512KiB
Frequency	120MHz
FPU	no
Timers	5 (all 16-bit)
ADCs	1x 28-channel 10-bit
USB 2.0	1
UARTs	4
SPIs	2
I2Cs	2
RTC	yes
RNG	no
Vcc	2.3V - 3.6V
Datasheet	Datasheet

User Interface

2 Buttons:

NAME	T1	T2
Pin	RE7	RB0

2 LEDs:

NAME	LD1	LD2
Color	red	red
Pin	RB1	RB2

Implementation Status

Device	ID	Supported	Comments
MCU	pic32mx470f512h	partly
Low-level driver	GPIO	partly	gpio_irq not supported
	ADC	no
	PWM	no
	UART	yes
	I2C	no
	SPI	no
	USB	no
	RTT	no
	RTC	no
	Timer	no

Using UART

This board doesn't open an UART or serial interface through the USB automatically, and the USB device driver hasn't been implemented to RIOT. Therefore, to open an UART interface one has to connect a usb/ttl converter to the UART3 pins RF5 (RX) and RF4 (TX) available on the Mikrobus socket.

Flashing the device

There are two ways to flash the MCU: Using MPLAB-IPE and a PICkit 3 (The RIOT build generates a hexfile compatible with MPLAB-IPE) Using pic32prog and a PICkit 2 or a PICkit 3 (other devices might be supported by pic32prog but were not tested). This is the preferred option as it makes possible to flash the device using make flash command.

Supported Toolchains

For using the 6lowpan-clicker board we strongly recommend the usage of the Codescape GNU Tools toolchain.

Files
file	board.h
	board configuration for the MikroE 6LoWPAN Clicker

file	gpio_params.h
	Configuration of SAUL mapped GPIO pins.

file	periph_conf.h
	peripheral configuration for the MikroE 6LoWPAN Clicker