Setting Up Thingy-9151-Lite Hardware Platform

Owned by Alexander Dyachenko
Last updated: Jun 09, 2024 by Vladimir Khusainov
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1. Overview

The emulated hardware platform is used for for early software development, while the Emcraft Thingy-9151-Lite hardware kit is not available yet. The emulated platform is based on the existing nRF9161 and nRF5340 development kits.

This note describes how to set up the emulated hardware platform.

2. Setting Up Hardware

Step through the following procedure in order to set up the emulated platform hardware:

  • Connect a USB Type-C cable to the J6 connector on the nRF9161 DK to the Linux host to get access to the on-board programmer and serial console.

  • Connect a Micro-USB cable to the J2 connector on the nRF5340 DK, and to the Linux host to get access to the on-board programmer and the VCOM based serial consoles.

  • Connect a Micro-USB cable to the J3 connector on the nRF5340 DK, and to the Linux host to get access to the USB based serial consoles.

3. Connecting USB Devices to the VMware Virtual Machine

If Linux runs on a VMware virtual machine, perform the following procedure in order to get access to the nRF9161 DK and the nRF5340 DK over USB:

  1. On the Windows host system, run VMware Workstation Player and launch the appropriate virtual machine.

  2. In the virtual machine window, click Player and go to Removable Devices:

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  3. In the drop-down menu, select SEGGER J-Link and click Connect:

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  4. Click OK in the pop-up window:

  5. On the virtual machine, two USB ACM devices are detected by the Linux host when each of the target boards is connected:

    [1018339.755434] usb 1-2.2: new full-speed USB device number 17 using uhci_hcd [1018339.995658] usb 1-2.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1366, idProduct=1051, bcdDevice= 1.00 [1018339.995664] usb 1-2.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [1018339.995666] usb 1-2.2: Product: J-Link [1018339.995668] usb 1-2.2: Manufacturer: SEGGER [1018339.995669] usb 1-2.2: SerialNumber: 001050016904 [1018340.007741] cdc_acm 1-2.2:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device [1018340.016108] cdc_acm 1-2.2:1.2: ttyACM1: USB ACM device

  6. The target boards can now be programmed from the Linux virtual machine using nRF Util.

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