4. Introduction
The DA1470x is a family of wireless MCU triple core (ARM Cortex® M33™ + 2x Cortex® M0+™) wireless microcontrollers. It is the World’s Most Advanced Wireless SOC.
Compared to DA1469x, the DA1470x has:
Better Processing power
Better Battery lifetime
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The DA1407x SoCs combine :
The newest Arm Cortex® M33™ application processor with floating point unit (FPU)
Advanced power management functionality
A cryptographic security engine
Analog and digital peripherals
A dedicated sensor node controller (Arm Cortex® M0+™)
A dedicated graphic processing unit (GPU) for advanced graphics processing
Software configurable protocol engine with a radio, compliant to the Bluetooth® 5.2 low energy standard.
More information can be found in the DA1470x Datasheet .
4.1. Guide Purpose
The purpose of this guide is to provide an overview of the DA1470X Pro Development Kit (ProDK) board and describe the setup of the hardware and installation of the software tools to fully use the board.
The following hardware and software elements are required to use the DA1470x Pro Development Kit:
SmartSnippets™ Studio 2.0.20 (or newer) which can be installed on Windows or Linux hosts
Windows users should download and install terminal software such as RealTerm, Putty or Teraterm. The rest of the document uses RealTerm. Linux users can use Putty
The rest of guide is organized as follows:
Section 5 describes the hardware components and their initial installation and setup.
Section 6 and Section 7 describe the installation of the SmartSnippets™ DA1470X SDK software, along with all necessary tools.
Section 9 contains all steps for downloading and executing your first DA1470X Application.
4.2. How long should it take?
This tutorial requires 45-60 minutes to complete. For more information the user may consult the accompanied documentation. These are mentioned as for further reading.
4.3. Kit Content
The DA1470X ProDK Kit parts can be ordered via various distributors. The DA1470x Pro Development Kit contains the following: