SparkFun Thing Plus - nRF9160

Name: SparkFun Thing Plus - nRF9160
Brand: Sparkfun
SKU: WRL-17354
Price: 150.00 GBP
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SparkFun has teamed up with CircuitDojo to bring you the SparkFun nRF9160 Thing Plus, featuring the powerful Nordic nRF9160 microcontroller in a Feather-compatible footprint.

This little chip is capable of both CAT M1 LTE and NB-IoT cellular communication and is designed to work with Zephyr, the go-to RTOS for embedded development. To make the Thing Plus even easier to use, this board utilizes the handy Qwiic Connect System which means no soldering or shields are required to connect it to the rest of your system!

Not only can you take advantage of Nordic’s advanced power states, but you can also put the device into a low power standby state. Laboratory measurements are putting that mode at about 2µA of current. 2µA! It also features a 3.3V Buck-Boost which helps get every mWh from your batteries as possible.

No batteries? No problem! Power your nRF9160 Thing Plus externally with a USB-C cable. Keep it on at all times for high availability scenarios.

Want to persist data? The nRF9160 Thing Plus has a 4MB external flash for storing data while offline. Using external flash with a filesystem like LitteFS and you’ll have a project to recon with!

The SparkFun Qwiic Connect System is an ecosystem of I2C sensors, actuators, shields and cables that make prototyping faster and less prone to error. All Qwiic-enabled boards use a common 1mm pitch, 4-pin JST connector. This reduces the amount of required PCB space, and polarized connections mean you can’t hook it up wrong.

Get started with the SparkFun nRF9160 Thing Plus Hookup Guide

Includes

1x SparkFun Thing Plus - nRF9160
1x Hologram SIM Card

Features

Nordic nRF9160 Microcontroller with ARM Cortex M33
1MB Flash
256kB RAM
ARM® TrustZone®
ARM® Cryptocell 310
Up to 4x SPI, I2C and UART with Easy DMA
I2S w/ EasyDMA
4x PWM with EasyDMA
12bit SADC with EasyDMA
2x RTC
PPI (Programmable peripheral interconnect) interface
Radio

Transceiver and baseband
3GPP LTE release 13 Category M1 and NB1 compliant
3GPP release 14 NB2 compliant
GPS receiver (GPS L1 C/A supported) - Active antenna only.
RF Transceiver for global coverage supporting bands:

Cat-M1: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B8, B12, B13, B14, B17, B18, B19, B20, B25, B26, B28, B66
Cat-NB1/NB2: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B8, B12, B13, B17, B18, B20, B25, B26, B28, B66

Supports 4FF Nano SIM

USB-C connection for USB-to-Serial and DFU
Pre-programmed MCUBoot bootloader
External NOR Flash by Winbond

4MB of space
Max bus speed of 133MHz
Standard SPI

Power supply

3.3V Buck/Boost up to 0.9A of current draw
Operating range 2.8 to 5.5V
External LiPoly battery connection (JST SPH type)
Charge rate set to 300mA with LED indication

Programmer

Capable of interfacing with J-Link and CMSIS-DAP based programmers

Low Power RTC on board for time keeping and as a low power wakeup source.
User I/O

Standard feather form factor GPIOs (0.1" pitch)
2x buttons (1 Reset, 1 General Purpose)
1x Blue LED connected to D7

Antenna connections:

1x U.FL for LTE with matching network
1x U.FL for active GPS antennas

Feather form factor

58.42mm x 22.86mm (2.3" x 0.9")

Documents

SparkFun has teamed up with CircuitDojo to bring you the SparkFun nRF9160 Thing Plus, featuring the powerful Nordic nRF9160 microcontroller in a Feather-compatible footprint.

WRL-17354

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WRL-17354

EAN

845156011469

Brand

Sparkfun

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