4.2 Expansion Header
On the right hand side of the board an angled 20 pin expansion header is provided to allow connection of peripherals or plugin boards.
The connector contains a number of I/O pins that can be used with most of the EFM32 Giant Gecko GG11's features. Additionally, the
VMCU, 3V3 and 5V power rails are also exported.
The connector follows a standard which ensures that commonly used peripherals such as an SPI, a UART and an I2C bus are available
on fixed locations in the connector. The rest of the pins are used for general purpose I/O. This allows the definition of expansion boards
that can plug into a number of different Silicon Labs starter kits.
The figure below shows the pin assignment of the expansion header for the EFM32 Giant Gecko GG11 Starter Kit. Because of limita-
tions in the number of available GPIO pins, some of the expansion header pins are shared with kit features.
1
2
4
8
6
10
3
5
9
7
12
13
14
11
15
16
17
18
20
19
VMCU
PE10
PE11
PE12
PE13
PE8
PE9
PC0
5V
3V3
GND
PA12
PA13
PC4
PC5
PB11
PB9
PC1
Board ID SDA
Board ID SCL
Reserved (Board Identification)
TARGET I/O Pin
Figure 4.2. Expansion Header
Table 4.3. EXP Header Pinout
Pin
Connection
EXP Header function
Shared feature
Peripheral mapping
20
3V3
Board controller supply
18
5V
Board controller USB voltage
16
PC0
I2C_SDA
CAN0_RX #0
I2C0_SDA #4
14
PE9
UART_RX
SDIO_DAT2 #0
USART5_RX #0
12
PE8
UART_TX
SDIO_DAT3 #0
USART5_TX #0
10
PE13
SPI_CS
SDIO_CLK #0
USART0_CS #0
8
PE12
SPI_SCLK
SDIO_CMD #0
USART0_CLK #0
6
PE11
SPI_MISO
SDIO_DAT0 #0
USART0_RX #0
4
PE10
SPI_MOSI
SDIO_DAT1 #0
USART0_TX #0
2
VMCU
EFM32 voltage domain, included in AEM measurements.
19
BOARD_ID_SDA
Connected to Board Controller for identification of add-on boards.
17
BOARD_ID_SCL
Connected to Board Controller for identification of add-on boards.
15
PC1
I2C_SCL
CAN0_TX #0
I2C0_SCL #4
13
PB9
GPIO
11
PB11
DAC_OUT
VDAC0_OUT0
9
PC5
I2C_SCL
SDIO_WP #1
I2C1_SCL #0
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