Volansys Modular IoT Gateway, Hardware User'S Manual

Page 1: ...V1R1 www volansys com I Email business volansys com Copyright 2017 VOLANSYS Page 1 MODULAR IOT GATEWAY HARDWARE USER GUIDE REVISION V1R1 ...

Page 2: ...Further no portion of this document may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying and recording without the prior written consent of Volansys the copyright holder Volansys publishes this document without making any warranty as to the content contained herein Further Volansys reserves the right to make modif...

Page 3: ...de V1R1 www volansys com I Email business volansys com Copyright 2017 VOLANSYS Page 3 Table of Contents 1 REVISION HISTORY 6 2 INTRODUCTION 7 3 SPECIFICATION 9 4 CONTENTS OF THE MODULAR GATEWAY KIT 22 5 SUPPORT 24 6 APPENDIX A 25 ...

Page 4: ...01 Settings for Boot Mode Selection 11 Figure 7 Resistor Settings for Boot Device Selection Top Side 13 Figure 8 Resistor Settings for Boot Device Selection Bottom Side 13 Figure 9 JTAG Pin Definition 15 Figure 10 Modular Gateway Back Side 16 Figure 11 NFC Controller 17 Figure 12 MikroBUS Header 17 Figure 13 MKW2xD Module with MikroBUS header 18 Figure 14 MKW2xD Module 18 Figure 15 MKW41Z Module 1...

Page 5: ...n 11 Table 4 i MX6 Ultra Lite SOM BOOT Device Configuration 12 Table 5 Gateway USB Configuration 14 Table 6 Terminal Settings 15 Table 7 User Interface Switch 16 Table 8 User LED Indications 16 Table 9 J31 JTAG signal support 19 Table 10 JTAG Header for MKW2xD and MKW41z 19 Table 11 Modular Gateway Kit Content 22 Table 12 Modular Gateway Unit Contents 22 Table 13 Require Preparation Equipment 22 T...

Page 6: ...viewed By Approved By V1R1 22 Dec 17 Initial draft version VOLANSYS VOLANSYS VOLANSYS Table 1 Revision History 1 2 References Documents Revision Schematic Design of Volansys Base Board 2 05 Schematic Design of Volansys SoM 1 05 Datasheet i MX6UL SOM IMX6ULCEC 0 2 Datasheet of MKw2xD 1 0 Datasheet of JN5169 Module 1 1 Quick start Guide of PN7120 NFC Controller Board 1 1 Table 2 References ...

Page 7: ... This manual provides detail information about major design peripherals and its usage criteria It also includes systems setup debugging information from hardware systems perspective 2 1 Board Overview Figure 1 Modular Gateway The Modular Gateway development kit based on i MX6UltraLite introduces developers to the i MX6UL based SOM board This gateway will help users to develop and run their IoT bas...

Page 8: ...D Flash o Micro SD connector Communication and Connectivity o 1x 10 100Mbps Ethernet connector o 1x USB 2 0 Host connector o 1x USB 2 0 Host connector Device mode support o MikroBus compatible header to support mikroBUS compatible Volansys RF modules like KW41Z KW2xD other MikroBUS click modules o Wi Fi BT module from Murata o NFC module using PN7120 controller for commissioning Other I O o 1x Deb...

Page 9: ...he SODIMM 200 connector to connect with i MX6UL based SOM This section provides detailed information about electrical design practical consideration of different peripherals of Modular Gateway The architecture block diagram of Modular Gateway board is shown as below Figure 3 Architecture Block Diagram The overview of Modular Gateway Base and SOM board is shown in following figures Figure 4 SOM Boa...

Page 10: ...gle ARM Cortex A7 core which operates at speeds of up to 528 MHz The device is composed of the following major subsystems Single core ARM Cortex A7 MPCore Platform 32 Kbytes L1 Instruction Cache 32 Kbytes L1 Data Cache Private Timer and Watchdog Trust Zone support Cortex A7 NEON MPE Media Processing Engine Co processor 3 2 BOOT Mode Configuration Modular Gateway supports three different boot modes...

Page 11: ...Ultra Lite SOM DIP SW01 Configuration Figure 6 SW01 Settings for Boot Mode Selection Note Please see Annex I for SW01 Boot mode setting for production batch serial number 17030171XXXXX to 17030295XXXXX and MAC 70 B3 D5 9A E07A to 70 B3 D5 9A E0F6 3 2 1 Serial Downloader Modular Gateway supports serial download option for initial boot process It is also required to change USB mode to device for ser...

Page 12: ... flash and micro SD card as Boot Device To select the boot device it is required to configure external BOOT configuration resistors as shown in below table BOOT Device Configuration Micro SD Populated Resistors R50 R57 R68 R56 R54 R64 R70 R69 R72 R58 R73 R60 R74 R61 R118 R133 DNP Resistors R59 R71 R127 R120 R136 R121 R123 R140 R134 R135 R132 R119 R131 R117 R130 R116 NAND Populated Resistors R50 R5...

Page 13: ...ide If user require to change boot mode or boot device selection then it is recommended to follow below steps shown for internal boot mode and NAND as boot device Change DIP SW01 to ON OFF From 1 2 Bit to enter internal BOOT Mode Make resistors setting as shown in Table 2 below to BOOT from NAND flash After the board images are programmed and the BOOT switches is correctly configured system is rea...

Page 14: ...n SOM for 10 100 Mbps Auto negotiation support Programmable MAC address 3 5 USB Connectors The USB interface block provides two High speed USB port which supports USB ver 2 0 Initially both the connectors will act as host User can configure USB 2 J17 port as device also by modifying jumpers setting USB 1 J16 will work as host only Jumper setting for USB 2 port host and device mode are shown in bel...

Page 15: ...ls to USB A micro B to standard A USB cable can be used UART1 port is used as the debug port The required terminal settings are shown in the following table Baud Rate 115200 Data Bits 8 Parity None Stop Bits 1 Flow Control None Table 6 Terminal Settings 3 8 JTAG Connector J21 J21 has been used as JTAG connector it s a 10 pin header User will require to have 10 to 20 pin convertor to use standard J...

Page 16: ...for user to reboot the system without removing power supply Pressing the switch will drive logic zero on RESETn signal which will affects every modules on gateway 3 10 User LED Indications Two dual color LEDs are used to provide indication about different Gateway functionalities Below table indicates color mark to represent specific events LED Behavior Represents LED1 Green Connected to cloud Red ...

Page 17: ...ndard MikroBUS header which provides SPI I2C UART interface and other Mikrobus standard support signals MikroBUS standard click board can be used with Modular Gateway board Below figure displays Standard Mikrobus socket position on Modular Gateway board Figure 12 MikroBUS Header 3 13 Volansys THREAD Modules Volansys has developed two very tiny Thread modules using MKW2xD MKW41Z SoC from NXP Also t...

Page 18: ... to provide Thread interface support MKW2xD supports following features Ultra Compact size of 24x19mm 50 MHz 32 bit ARM Cortex M4 MCU with DSP capabilities 512 KB Flash 64 KB SRAM Pads are side castellation for easy soldering optical inspection Figure 14 MKW2xD Module 3 13 2 MKW41Z module Optional Volansys developed very small form factored SMT module using MKW41Z controller User can have support ...

Page 19: ...J6 to easily debug Volansys Thread Modules which will be connected on MikroBUS header J31 J31 header comes with below additional JTAG signals support Pin Signal Name J31 1 TDI J31 2 TCLK SWD_CLK J31 19 TMS SWD_DIO J31 20 TDO Table 9 J31 JTAG signal support Pinout of JTAG header J6 shown as below Pin JTAG signal Pin JTAG signal 1 VCC_3V3 2 TMS SWD_DIO 3 GND 4 TCLK SWD_CLK 5 GND 6 TDO 7 NC 8 TDI 9 N...

Page 20: ...ted PCB antenna Compact size 30mm x 16mm Figure 17 JN5169 Module 3 16 JN5179 ZigBee Module NXP s ZigBee module have JN5179 wireless controller which was low power supporting for ZigBee interface JN5179 module supports following features 2 4GHz IEEE802 15 4 compliant 512KB Flash 32KB RAM uFl PCB antenna or Internal Antenna or Both support Compact size 14 5mm x 20 5mm TX power 8 5 dBm 10 dBm Receive...

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Page 22: ...Initially it contains following peripherals to support different functionality Item Description SoM Based on i MX6UL processor 200 pin SO DIMM standard supported module Base Board Multiple RF interface support with Volansys SoM NFC Module For commissioning of different modules KW2xD module Provides Thread interface support JN5169 module Provides ZigBee interface support Table 12 Modular Gateway Un...

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Page 24: ...lar IoT Gateway User Guide V1R1 www volansys com I Email business volansys com Copyright 2017 VOLANSYS Page 24 5 SUPPORT Please contact following alias for technical support gateway support volansystech com ...

Page 25: ... No Terms Definition 1 MCU Microcontroller Unit 2 U FL Ultra Miniature RF Connector 3 BLE Bluetooth Low Energy 4 TBD To Be Define 5 IoT Internet Of Things 6 SoM Systems On Module 7 NFC Near Field Communication 8 eMMC Embedded Multimedia Card 9 SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory 10 PMIC Power Management Integrated Circuits 11 BT Bluetooth 12 SoC System on Chip Table 14 Acronyms Glossary...

Page 26: ...tion batch serial number 17030171XXXXX to 17030295XXXXX and MAC 70 B3 D5 9A E07A to 70 B3 D5 9A E0F6 due to SW1 reverse mounting issue BMODE 1 0 BOOT Mode 1 1 Boot from fuses 1 0 Serial Downloader 0 1 Internal Boot 0 0 Reserved Note Above switch configuration shows the serial downloader selection Please also refer section 3 2 for Boot mode 0 and mode 1 pin configuration schematic ...