Maxim Integrated MAX32655 Evaluation Kit

In the video below, I take a look at what you get with the MAX32655 evaluation kit (214-9192) , some of the features on a MAX32655 SoC (214-9194) and what Bluetooth®5.2 brings to users.

Maxim Integrated MAX32655 Evaluation Kit

Maxim Integrated MAX32655 Evaluation Kit (214-9192) is a development platform for the MAX32655 Low-Power Wireless Microcontroller. The MAX32655 (214-9194) is an advanced System-on-Chip (SoC) featuring an Arm® Cortex®-M4F CPU and integrated BLUETOOTH® 5.2.

Features

• Pre-mounted MAX32655 Low-Power Wireless Microcontroller
• External Bluetooth antenna with SMA interface
• Stereo audio codec with line-in and line-out 5mm jacks
• Digital microphone
• 320 x 240 colour TFT resistive touch display with an SPI interface
• 128Mb quad SPI flash
• USB 2.0 micro-B to serial UARTs
• UART0 and LPUART interface selectable through onboard jumpers
• All GPIOs signals accessed through 0.1" headers
• Access to the eight analogue inputs through 1" headers
• 10-pin SWD and RV JTAG connectors
• Board power provided by USB port
• Onboard 1.8V and 3.3V LDO regulators
• MAX32655 can be solely sourced by the coin cell battery
• Individual power measurement on all ic rails through jumpers
• Two general-purpose LEDs and two general-purpose pushbutton switches

Kit Contents

• MAX32655 Evaluation Board with MAX32655 loaded with a pre-programmed Demo
• One external Bluetooth antenna
• MAX32625PICO Debugger with cables
• JTAG Debugger with ribbon cable
• One USB standard-A to micro-B cable
• One USB standard-A to standard-B cable

Datasheet

MAX32655 Low-Power Wireless Microcontroller SoC

Features

• Ultra-low-power wireless microcontroller
  • Internal 100MHz oscillator
  • Flexible low-power modes with 3728MHz system clock option
  • 512KB flash and 128KB SRAM
    • Optional ECC on one 32KB SRAM bank
  • 16KB instruction cache
• Bluetooth 5.2 LE
  • Dedicated ultra-low-power, 32-Bit RISC-V coprocessor to offload timing-critical Bluetooth processing
  • Fully open-source Bluetooth 5.2 stack available
  • Supports AoA, AoD, LE Audio, and Mesh
  • High-throughput (2Mbps) mode
  • Long-range (125kbps and 500kbps) modes
  • Rx sensitivity: -97.5dBm; Tx Power: +4.5dBm
  • Single-ended antenna connection (50Ω)
• Power management maximizes battery life
  • 0V to 3.6V supply voltage range
  • Integrated SIMO power regulator
  • Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS)
  • 8μA/MHz active current at 3.0V
  • 4μA at 3.0V retention current for 32KB
  • Selectable SRAM retention + RTC in low-power modes

• Multiple peripherals for system control
  • Two high-speed SPI master/slave
  • Three High-Speed I²C master/slave (3.4Mbps)
  • Four UART, One I²S master/slave
  • 8-Input, 10-Bit Sigma-Delta ADC 8ksps
  • Four micro-power comparators
  • Timers: Two 32-Bit, Two LP, Two Watchdog timers
  • 1-Wire master
  • Four Pulse Train (PWM) engines
  • RTC with wake-up timer
  • Up to 52 GPIOs
• Security and integrity
  • Available secure boot
  • TRNG seed generator
  • AES 128/192/256 hardware acceleration engine
• Physical characteristics
  • -40°C to +105°C operating temperature range 
  • 8mm x 8mm CTBGA81 package; 0.8mm pitch, 9 x 9 array
  • RoHS compliant

Datasheet