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Welcome to the Renesas Bluetooth® Low Energy MCU Wiki
Introduction
This page is about the Renesas Bluetooth®® Low Energy devices. These are a set of Low Cost, Low Power SoC’s and Modules. The main goal of this page is to make the on-line information better accessible for HW and SW developers.
The Renesas.com website lists information per product; on this page we will present information per topic. We will go through a typical design cycle from Board availability, Getting Started guides till production line testing.
This page is meant to serve as a complementary resource available on Renesas web site for the Bluetooth® Low Energy SOCs.
Boards
For each of the Bluetooth® Low Energy products, Renesas has 2 types of boards available:
- Pro devkit: This development kit consist of a Motherboard/Daughterboard and includes the Power Profiling module
- USB devkit: Small formfactor development. Target device is directly soldered on the board and has no Power Profiling module
Target device:
- DA14585/DA14586/DA14531/DA14531-01/DA14530/DA14531MOD
- DA14592
Datasheets
• DA14592
• DA14531
• DA14531 Module
• DA14585
• DA14586
Getting Started Guides
Each of the boards has a getting started guide available. The purpose of such a guide is to help users get a board up and running in as short as possible time. It will explain how to connect the hardware, Install the required SW packages, Compile a first Blinky code and Flash it into the target device.
- Getting started DA14592 Devkit PRO
- Getting started DA14585/586 Devkit PRO
- Getting started DA14531/531-01/530
- Getting started DA14531MOD
- Getting started DA14531 USB
Board Design
The hardware design of battery supplied wireless products requires extra attention. Each of the products has a hardware guidelines document that explains what needs to be considered when designing schematic and layout of a product. Some products have schematics and layout examples available for download. Antenna design is generic for all BLE products. Different antenna topologies are explained in a dedicated document together with design files.
- DA14592 Application Hardware Design Guidelines
- Hardware guidelines Application note DA14531/531-01/531MOD
- Hardware guidelines Application note DA14585/586
- Hardware guidelines Application note DA14691/695/697/699
- DA14531/531-01/530 minimal Layout examples
- Application note: Designing Printed Antennas for Bluetooth Low Energy
Tools
The respective Getting Started Guides explain which tools need to be installed for each device family. This section will summarize on the tools and list a couple of additional tools that are available.
DA14592 and DA14691/695/697/699
- e² studio: Eclipse-based Renesas integrated development environment (IDE) (only for DA14592)
- SmartSnippets Studio: Eclipse based IDE with GCC compiler and debugger
- SmartSnippets Toolbox: Integrated tool for Flashing, Power profiling, HCI control, RF testing
DA145x (DA14531/531-01/530 and DA14585/DA14586)
- Keil uVision: IDE with ARM compiler.
- SmartSnippets Studio: Eclipse based IDE with GCC compiler and debugger. GCC is supported on the Proximity Reporter as part of the SDK zip file and on a number of SW examples available on Github.
- SmartSnippets Toolbox
- Flash programmer
- ezFlashCLI
Software Downloads
Each of the BLE products comes with a Software Development Kit. This can be downloaded from the Renesas website after accepting a license agreement. Next to the Bluetooth stack and a few utilities, the SDK includes several application layer SW examples.
SDK10 (10.1.2.86) for DA14592
SDK and Platform Reference Manual
SDK6 for DA14531, DA14585/DA14586
SDK10 (10.0.12.146.2) for DA14691/DA14695
In addition to the SDK zip file developers can also make use of SW examples on Github. These examples demonstrate for instance the use of the low level drivers and also more complex Bluetooth use cases. There SW examples are created in a modular approach such that users can test and re-use them in their target application.
- DA14592 - SDK10 repository on GitHub
- DA1453x - DA1458x - SDK6 repository on GitHub
- DA14695x - SDK10 repository on GitHub
Other Software downloads
Software Development
Next to the software examples the user can find useful information in a selection of on-line tutorials. Below is a list of Tutorials with short description:
DA14592
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| DA14592 Getting started | This tutorial is an introduction into SDK10. It explains how to implement basic functionality in the embedded firmware |
| Software Platform Reference Manual | This document explains deeply the SDK |
| Tutorial BLE Custom Service | Tutorial explaining what is a custom GATT profile and how to create one |
| Tutorial Advertising Concepts | Tutorial describing how to create a BLE advertiser |
| Tutorial Starting a Project | Explains how to start your first project on DA14592 and e2 Studio |
DA14531, DA14585/DA14586
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| SDK6 Getting started | This tutorial is an introduction into SDK6. It explains how to implement basic functionality in the embedded firmware |
| SDK6 peripheral drivers | This document provides info about the available low level drivers in the SDK and how to use them |
| Booting from OTP and Serial | This document explains the various boot options from the external interface |
| BLE advertiser | Tutorial describing how to create a BLE advertiser |
| Create a custom GATT Profile | Tutorial explaining what is a custom GATT profile and how to create one |
| BLE Sleep modes | Explains how to create a device with lowest possible power consumption |
| BLE security | The tutorial gives basic understanding of BLE security and how to use this on SDK6 |
| Flash selector Guide | An overview of Flash devices that has been verified for DA145xx and SDK6 |
| Tutorial SW debugging | Tips and tricks on the various debugging techniques |
DA1469x
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Starting a project | The tutorial explains how to start your own SDK10 project |
| Using the Adapters in SDK10 | Using the I2C the Adapter concept is explained as used in SDK10 |
| Booting from Serial interfaces | This document explains the various boot options from the UART or QSPI Flash |
| BLE advertiser | Tutorial describing how to create a BLE advertiser |
| Flash Driver Creation | How to develop a new custom QSPI driver for Flash or RAM |
| Flash Adaptor for Data Storage | How to implement Non-Voltatile data storage using the available adapter |
| How to use images bigger than 512 | Document explaining how to configure the SDK to run images larger than the default 512kB |
| Power management | Tutorial explaining how to define hardware and software set-up for power consumption measurements |
| Secure Boot Mechanism | The document explains how to use the feature of secure boot in the project |
Renesas SmartBond Mobile Applications
- Renesas SmartBond Mobile Application: The SmartBond™ app from Renesas Electronics is a mobile application that works as a generic tool for interacting with Bluetooth® Low Energy devices.
- Renesas SmartConfig: With this app you can connect to devices which support the configuration service and modify settings that are available on the peer device
- Renesas SmartConsole: This mobile application works with devices which support the Renesas CodeLess™ Service or the Dialog Serial Port Service (DSPS)
- Renesas SUOTA: This mobile application provides Software Updates Over The Air (SUOTA) for SmartBond™ Bluetooth® low energy devices
- Renesas SmartTags: This mobile application connects to Bluetooth® Low Energy Proximity devices
Renesas Support
Technical support discussions about Renesas BLE products, hardware, software can be found in the Renesas Engineering Community. You can also ask your question or report anything concerning this Wiki.
https://community.renesas.com/wireles-connectivity/f/bluetooth-low-energy
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