Welcome

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

Open SmartBond™ DA14592 Bluetooth® Low Energy 5.2 SoC Development Kit Pro	Open The daughterboard is mounted with a WLCSP-packaged DA14592	Open The daughterboard is mounted with an FCQFN-packaged DA14592	Open DA14531 SmartBond TINY™ Development Kit Pro	Open DA14531 PRO-daughterboard (PRO-DB) FCGQFN24
Open DA14531-01 PRO-daughterboard (PRO-DB) FCGQFN24	Open DA14530 PRO-daughterboard (PRO-DB) FCGQFN24	Open DA14585 PRO-daughterboard (PRO-DB) FCGQFN40	Open DA14586 PRO-daughterboard (PRO-DB) FCGQFN40	Open DA14531 Smartbond TINY™ MODULE Daughter Board
Open DA14531 SmartBond TINY™ USB Development Kit

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

• SDK and Platform Reference Manual

SDK10 (10.0.12.146.2) for DA14691/DA14695

• SDK and Platform Reference Manual

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

• DPSPS

• Codeless

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

DA14531, DA14585/DA14586

DA1469x

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.

  • iOS

  • Android

• 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

  • iOS

  • Android

• Renesas SmartConsole: This mobile application works with devices which support the Renesas CodeLess™ Service or the Dialog Serial Port Service (DSPS)

  • iOS

  • Android

• Renesas SUOTA: This mobile application provides Software Updates Over The Air (SUOTA) for SmartBond™ Bluetooth® low energy devices

  • iOS

  • Android

• Renesas SmartTags: This mobile application connects to Bluetooth® Low Energy Proximity devices

  • iOS

  • Android

Manufacturing Process Development

To assist with ramping up your application to mass production, Renesas has developed the Production Line Tool (PLT). The PLT consists of a hardware tester and the accompanying test software. And it is capably of programming, trimming, and testing the following devices:

• DA1453x - DA1469x:  SmartBond PLT version 4.x

• DA147xx: SmartBond PLT version 5.x

• DA1459x: SmartBond PLT version 6.x

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