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BADGER-SIM3L1-EK

Manufacturer Part Number
BADGER-SIM3L1-EK
Description
Development Boards & Kits - ARM Low-Power SiM3L1xx 32-bit MCU Eval Kit
Manufacturer
Silicon Labs
Datasheet

Specifications of BADGER-SIM3L1-EK

Rohs
yes
Product
Evaluation Boards
Tool Is For Evaluation Of
SiM3L1xx
Core
ARM Cortex M3
Data Bus Width
32 bit
Description/function
ToolStick for the Precision32 low-power family
For Use With
SiM3L1xx
SiM3L1
1. Introduction
The Badger Board is controlled by Silicon Labs’ SiM3L1xx, an ultra low-power Cortex-M3 microcontroller. The
entire board is powered solely by a small supercapacitor and demonstrates best-in-class low-power operation. The
board can remain running with the LCD enabled for days from as little as a 90-second charge and, under typical
use, can last up to a week from a three to five minute charge. Figure 1 shows the SiM3L1xx Badger Board.
The SiM3L1xx MCU has the following key power specs:
The Silicon Labs Precision32™ SiM3L1xx 32-bit MCUs are ideal candidates for ultra low-power system designs. In
addition to providing an evaluation platform for ultra low-power LCD-based designs, the SiM3L1xx Badger Board
serves as a lower-cost, general-purpose development platform for the SiM3L1xx MCUs.
2. Relevant Documents
This document provides a hardware and software overview for the SiM3L1xx Badger Board. Additional
documentation on the Precision32 tools and MCUs can be found on the following Silicon Labs web sites:
www.silabs.com/32bit-appnotes
www.silabs.com/32bit-software
www.silabs.com/32bit-mcu
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175 µA/MHz active mode operation
950 nA supply current with LCD and contrast control enabled
Segment resetting achieves 40 percent reduction in LCD load current
300 nA supply current with RTC in Crystal Mode
180 nA supply current with RTC in LFO Mode
75 nA supply current in Power Mode 8
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Copyright © 2013 by Silicon Laboratories
Figure 1. SiM3L1xx Badger Board
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BADGER-SIM3L1-EK Summary of contents

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... LCD enabled for days from as little as a 90-second charge and, under typical use, can last week from a three to five minute charge. Figure 1 shows the SiM3L1xx Badger Board. The SiM3L1xx MCU has the following key power specs:  ...

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... AN757 3. Hardware Setup Connect the badger board to a USB port on the PC using the USB extender cable shown in Figure 2. Once the board is plugged in, the blue LED (DS9) will turn on indicating that the badger board is ready for use. 4. Firmware Update To ensure that the badger board has the latest firmware recommended to perform a firmware update. The firmware update utility is installed by default at the following location: C:\Silabs\Reference_Designs\BadgerBoard\Utilities\FlashProgrammer\update_firmware ...

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... Charging the Badger Board The badger board is charging any time it is plugged into USB and the blue LED (DS9) is turned on. The badger board will charge to 75% capacity (3 approximately 90 seconds and to 100% capacity (3 minutes. There is no risk of overcharging the supercapacitor if the board is connected to USB indefinitely. ...

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... Once the countdown on the iOS device expires, a series of light pulses will be generated by the iOS device and captured by the light sensor. After the transmission is complete, the user string is displayed on the badger board LCD. Figure 5 shows screenshots from the iOS application and a badger board user string being updated over the light sensor interface. ...

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... Occasionally, ambient light conditions will not be ideal for updating the user-defined string over the light sensor interface important that the iOS device be located in close proximity to the badger board to block out ambient light when it is transmitting a “dark” pulse equally important to ensure that the iOS screen brightness is set high enough to generate sufficient light when transmitting a “ ...

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... AN757 10. Badger Board Hardware Overview The badger board enables low-power application development on the SiM3L166 MCU and easy prototyping for other SiM3L1xx MCUs. Figure 7 shows the badger board features. Full schematics for the board can be found in 12. "Schematics" on page 9. USB Card Edge ...

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... When plugged into USB, the supercapacitor is charged to a nominal voltage of 3.8 V. 10.3. ToolStick Debug Adapter (U3) The badger board features a debug adapter via the card edge USB connector. This debug adapter can be used with the Precision32 (1.0.2 and higher) and ARM uVision IDEs (4.54 and higher). When using an older version of the IDEs, the debug adapter DLLs in the IDE directories must be replaced to support the ToolStick Debug Adapter. Contact technical support (see “ ...

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... Badger Board Firmware Overview 11.1. System Overview The badger board firmware uses an event-driven architecture to stay in Power Mode 8 (PM8) at all times except when necessary to perform a system task. The two hardware wakeup sources used are pin wake and RTC wake. In active mode, the MCU operates on its 20 MHz low-power oscillator, and the APB clock is set to AHB/2. ...

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Schematics PB1.4 LCD27 49 PB1.3 LCD28 50 PB1.2 LCD29 51 PB1.1 LCD30 52 PB1.0 LCD31 53 VLCD 54 RTC2 55 RTC1 56 /RESET RESETb 57 PB0.9 58 PB0.8 PB0.8 59 PB0.7 LSENSE_EN 60 PB0.6 PB0.6 61 PB0.5 PB0.5 62 ...

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AN757 10 EPAD GPIO/CTS NC 22 GPIO/RTS NC 23 TDO/SWO/RX LED_STOP 24 TDI/TX SUSPEND 25 TMS/SWDIO C2D 26 nSRST RSTb/C2CK 27 TCK/SWCLK VBUS Rev. 0 ...

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Rev. 0.2 AN757 11 ...

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... AN757 13. Bill of Materials Table 2. Badger Board Bill of Materials Reference Part Number C24, C39 C0603X7R100-105K C25, C28, C0603X7R100-104K C36, C40 C26 EEC-S5R5H105 C27 C0603X5R6R3-106M C35, C41, C0603X7R100-225K C43 C42 C0402X7R160-333K D3 SP0503BAHTG D6 TEMT6200FX01 DS10 SML-LX0603GW DS5 SML-LX0603IW DS9 LTST-C190TBKT J4 USB A PLUG JP1 TSW-102-07-T-S ...

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... Table 2. Badger Board Bill of Materials (Continued) Reference Part Number S1 EVQ-PAD04M SF1, SF2, SJ61A6 SF3, SF4 U3 CF326-SX0261GM U4 SiM3L166-C-GM U5 GS-12811BA-1-1 U6, U7, U8, DMN5L06VK U10 U9 LP3982IMM-ADJ Source Panasonic Corp. 3M SiLabs CF326-SX0261GM SiLabs SiM3L166-C-GM Glory Sound Asia LCD 14x8 Current Measure Icons Diodes Inc. Texas Instruments Rev ...

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... Patent Notice Silicon Labs invests in research and development to help our customers differentiate in the market with innovative low-power, small size, analog- intensive mixed-signal solutions. Silicon Labs' extensive patent portfolio is a testament to our unique approach and world-class engineering team. ...

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