Dialog Semiconductor SmartBond DA14585 User manual

User Manual
DA14585/DA14586 Getting
Started Guide with the PRO-
Development Kit
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Abstract
This guide is intended to help customers setup the hardware development environment, install
required software, download, and run an example application on the DA14585/586 Pro Development
Kit development platform.
The current revision of this guide (V2.0) covers only the DA14585 and DA14586 devices.
For the DA148580, DA14581 and DA14583 devices, please refer to revision 1.2

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Contents
Abstract................................................................................................................................................ 1
Contents............................................................................................................................................... 2
1Figures............................................................................................................................................ 3
2Tables............................................................................................................................................. 3
3Terms and Definitions................................................................................................................... 4
4Prerequisites.................................................................................................................................. 4
5Introduction.................................................................................................................................... 5
5.1 Kit Content ............................................................................................................................ 5
6The DA14585/586 Hardware ......................................................................................................... 6
6.1 The ProDev Kit Motherboard ................................................................................................ 6
6.2 The Pro Kit daughterboard.................................................................................................... 7
6.3 Configuring the Pro Kit Board by Jumper Settings ............................................................... 7
6.4 Board Layout......................................................................................................................... 8
6.5 Connecting the ProDev Kit to the host PC............................................................................ 9
7DA14585/586 Software Installation.............................................................................................. 9
7.1 Requirements of the Development PC ................................................................................. 9
7.2 Driver Installation .................................................................................................................. 9
7.3 Configuring the Serial Port for UART.................................................................................. 11
7.3.1 Using Serial Port.................................................................................................. 11
7.4 Troubleshooting .................................................................................................................. 12
8Software Development Tools..................................................................................................... 12
8.1 SmartSnippets™ Installation............................................................................................... 13
8.2 KEIL Installation .................................................................................................................. 15
9Build a DA14585/586 Application .............................................................................................. 17
9.1 The Blinky Peripheral Example Application........................................................................ 17
9.2 The Barebone BLE Example Application............................................................................ 23
9.2.1 Troubleshooting................................................................................................... 25
9.2.2 What Next ?......................................................................................................... 25
10 Appendices.................................................................................................................................. 26
10.1 Appendix A: Using the Pro Development Kit ...................................................................... 26
10.2 Appendix B: Latency Timer of the FTDI cable.................................................................... 26
10.3 Appendix C: Battery Connection ‘Workaround’ .................................................................. 27
10.4 Appendix D: Power Bouncing Workaround......................................................................... 28
11 Revision history .......................................................................................................................... 29
12 Status definitions ........................................................................................................................ 29
13 Disclaimer .................................................................................................................................... 29
14 Contacting Dialog Semiconductor ............................................................................................ 30
15 RoHS Compliance ....................................................................................................................... 30

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1 Figures
Figure 1: The DA14585/586 ProDev Kit Motherboard .......................................................................... 6
Figure 2: DA14585/586 Daughterboard ................................................................................................ 7
Figure 3: DA14585/586 Jumper Settings .............................................................................................. 7
Figure 4: Jumper J5 Layout................................................................................................................... 8
Figure 5: DA14585/586 Board Layout................................................................................................... 8
Figure 6: Windows Driver Installation.................................................................................................. 10
Figure 7: Device Manager Ports.......................................................................................................... 10
Figure 8: Start Tera Term.................................................................................................................... 11
Figure 9: Setting Up the Port and Testing Connectivity via Tera Term............................................... 12
Figure 10: SmartSnippets Studio Install Link ...................................................................................... 13
Figure 11: Automatically Install J-Link................................................................................................. 14
Figure 12: Select SmartSnippets™ Studio Install Directory................................................................ 14
Figure 13: Keil Lite version.................................................................................................................. 15
Figure 14: CMSIS Package Installation successful............................................................................. 16
Figure 15: CMSIS Package Installation Successful............................................................................ 16
Figure 16: Blinky Project directory....................................................................................................... 17
Figure 17: Blinky Project Keil Workspace ........................................................................................... 18
Figure 18: Blinky Project Options........................................................................................................ 18
Figure 19: Blinky Project Scatter File .................................................................................................. 19
Figure 20: Blinky Project: Debug Option............................................................................................. 19
Figure 21: Blinky Project: Jlink setup .................................................................................................. 20
Figure 22: Blinky Project: Project Building .......................................................................................... 20
Figure 23: Blinky Project: Start Debug Session .................................................................................. 21
Figure 24: Keil Lite Pop Up Window.................................................................................................... 21
Figure 25: Blinky Project: Code Execution.......................................................................................... 21
Figure 26: Blinky Project: Blinky message on COM28 terminal.......................................................... 22
Figure 27: J5 Jumper setting for SPI flash programming.................................................................... 22
Figure 28: Barebone BLE Project directory......................................................................................... 23
Figure 29: Barebone BLE: KEIL Project Layout.................................................................................. 23
Figure 30: Barebone BLE: Interacting with BLE Application............................................................... 24
Figure 31: Hardware Settings for Pro Development Kit ...................................................................... 26
Figure 32: FTDI Latency Timer ........................................................................................................... 27
Figure 33: Reset Circuitry to Dismount R84........................................................................................ 27
Figure 34: R84 Location...................................................................................................................... 28
Figure 35: DA14585/586 QFN40 Daughterboard (321-10-x).............................................................. 28
2 Tables
Table 1: Parameters for Connecting to UART..................................................................................... 11
Table 2: Blinky Example UART and LED Jumper Configuration ........................................................ 25
Table 3: Blinky Example SWD Debugger Jumper Configuration........................................................ 25
Table 4: Revision History..................................................................................................................... 29
Table 5: Status Definitions................................................................................................................... 29

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3 Terms and Definitions
BLE Bluetooth Low Energy
COM Communication Port
CS Chip Select
DBG Debug
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Memory
FTDI Future Technology Devices International
GPIO General Purpose Input/Output
HW Hardware
IDE Integrated Development Environment
IRQ Interrupt Request
LED Light Emitting Diode
OS Operating System
OTP One Time Programmable
ProDev Kit Professional Development Kit
RF Radio frequency
SDK Software Development Kit
SoC System on Chip
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SWD Serial Wire Debug
TCK JTAG Test Clock
TMS JTAG Test Mode Select
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB Universal Serial Bus
4 Prerequisites
•Minimum hardware requirements:
–Windows Operating System, 1 GHz, 32-bit or 64-bit processor
–1 GB of system memory (RAM)
–2 GB of available disk space
•Pro Development Kit DA14585/586 and accessories
•Serial-port terminal software (for example, Tera Term)
•A USB connection supporting USB-Serial (FTDI)

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5 Introduction
The DA14585/586 is a family of Bluetooth Smart SoC devices that operate at very low power levels
while providing world-class RF performance.
The devices are available in a small footprint while still offering a large flexibility in configuration of the
on-chip interfaces making them suitable for a wide range of applications. More information can be
found in the DA14585 Datasheet.
The development kit includes a set of hardware (for example, a development board with an on-board
debugger) and is supported by a Software Development Kit (SDK) (that is, a development toolchain,
source code examples, and so on), and documentation.
The purpose of this guide is to provide an overview of the DA14585/586 ProDev Kit Development
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 DA14585/586 Development Kit:
•The Pro Development kit and Software Development Kit (SDK)
•SmartSnippets™ Studio which can be installed on Windows, see Section 8.
•Windows users should download and install terminal software such as RealTerm, Putty or Tera
Term. This document uses Tera Term for its examples.
The rest of guide is organized as follows:
•Section 6 describes the hardware components and their initial installation and setup.
•Sections 7 and 8describe the installation of the SmartSnippets™ DA14585/586 SDK
software, along with all necessary tools.
•Section 9 contains all steps for downloading and executing your first DA14585/586
Applications.
5.1 Kit Content
The ProDev Kit parts can be ordered via various distributors. The Pro Development Kit contains the
following:
•Bluetooth low energy motherboard
•The DA14585 daughterboard
•Mini USB-cable
•Coin cell battery (CR2032)

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6 The DA14585/586 Hardware
The Pro Development Kit (ProDev Kit) consists of a motherboard (MB-PRO) and a daughterboard
featuring the DA14585/586 SoC of the desired package, WLCSP34 or QFN40.
6.1 The ProDev Kit Motherboard
Figure 1 illustrates the physical layout of the ProDev Kit motherboard. The daughter-board containing
DA14585/586 device is shown in Figure 4.
The ProDev Kit Motherboard provides the necessary hardware to enable:
•Full digital connectivity with external hardware using UART, SPI, GPIO, and I2C
•USB based debugging capabilities using the SEGGER J-Link on-board debugger
•USB based UART communication with the host PC using a Future Technology Devices
International (FTDI) chipset which converts UART to USB.
Note: The DA14580 and the DA14585/586 share the same ProDev Kit motherboard (DA14580
DEVKT).
Figure 1: The DA14585/586 ProDev Kit Motherboard

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6.2 The Pro Kit daughterboard
Figure 2 presents the DA14585/586 Daughterboard.
Figure 2: DA14585/586 Daughterboard
6.3 Configuring the Pro Kit Board by Jumper Settings
The DA14585/586 supports booting from UART. The jumper settings are displayed below:
Figure 3: DA14585/586 Jumper Settings

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Figure 4 shows the layout of the header jumper, J5.
Figure 4: Jumper J5 Layout
6.4 Board Layout
The layout of the boards is displayed in Figure 5.
Figure 5: DA14585/586 Board Layout
Note: The schematic diagrams, BOM, and Gerber files are illustrated in detail in the Development
Kit Documentation.

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6.5 Connecting the ProDev Kit to the host PC
The ProDev Kit motherboard includes FTDI chipset U1 FT2232HLwhich allow easy communication
with the development host over USB. The FT2232HL implements the USB to UART function and
ensure the connectivity of PC to the DA14585/586 SoC UART port and to current sense circuitry
through SPI connection with ADC U4. The chip is supplied with a 3.3V from U13. A 12MHz crystal Y1
is required for the chip operation.
The ProDev Kit motherboard also includes an embedded J-Link debugger U6 SAM3U2CA which
ensures the USB to JTAG function by loading the software from Segger to the ROM of U6. The chip
is supplied with a 3.3V from U13 which is enabled by PWR_ENABLE signal.
Before connecting the ProDev Kit to the host PC, make sure that the motherboard and the desired
daughterboard module are properly connected.
A choice can be made between 3.3 V (via USB: J11 1-2) or VDD (a coin cell: J11 2-3). No battery is
needed when running via the mini-USB cable.
Note:
•The ProDev Kit is connected to the host PC over the connector marked as USB (J12),
as shown in Figure 5 using a standard mini-USB cable.
•When mounting a battery on the daughterboard, Jumper J11 should be fitted on 2-3
position.
•For proper battery functionality, a small modification should be made. See the
workaround in Appendix C.
7 DA14585/586 Software Installation
This section describes the installation procedure for the drivers, the configuration of the serial port, and
all necessary steps to verify the connection with the PC. It also provides solutions to problems that
may occur.
7.1 Requirements of the Development PC
For proper evaluation and application development using the DA14585/586 SoC and the ProDev Kit,
an external host is required. This external host must have a Microsoft Windows already installed and
USB ports as described in Section 6.
7.2 Driver Installation
On first connection to a host PC running Microsoft Windows, the system will detect several devices
and will automatically install all necessary drivers. If the system is configured to use Microsoft Windows
Update, this may take several minutes to complete.
When the driver installation is complete, the system displays a Microsoft Windows similar to the one
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Figure 6: Windows Driver Installation
There are two virtual COM ports created by the Windows driver. The first COM port (lower number,
COM28 in this example) provides a UART interface between the PC and the DA14585/586 device.
The second (higher number, COM29 in this example) is used to export measurement data from the
current sense circuitry on the ProDev Kit to the Power Profiler tool. For more information on the Power
Profiler, see the SmartSnippets Toolbox User Manual (UM-B-083).
Note: The COM port numbers assigned to the ProDev Kit motherboard might be different to the
ones shown in Figure 6.
Note: If Your PC has a serial port on it, then that's the COM1 you're seeing. Hence you can't
make a communication between the ProDev Kit board and the Windows on that port. But you
can do it only by using the other lowest COM port, COM28 in this case.
The COM port numbers can be found in the Windows Device Manager (Control Panel > Device
Manager > Ports (COM & LPT)) as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7: Device Manager Ports

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7.3 Configuring the Serial Port for UART
Several development tools require UART to be routed to the FTDI serial port. Refer to Figure 31 in
Appendix B for the ProDev Kit board connection verification and on how to properly configure the
specific port.
7.3.1 Using Serial Port
To make sure that the communication between the ProDev Kit board and the Windows development
host is properly established, it is necessary to verify the UART connection between the two nodes.
On the Windows host, Tera Term can be used to validate the connection to the ProDev Kit by following
these steps:
1. Connect the ProDev Kit board to the PC via USB cable. The location of the board's USB port is
shown in Figure 5.
2. Use the Windows Device Manager to verify that the host discovered two serial ports –the first of
which is connected to UART, see Figure 7.
3. Open Tera Term from the Windows Start menu as shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8: Start Tera Term
4. In the Tera Term: New connection dialog, select Serial, then select the COM Port to use, and
click OK.
5. Select Setup > Serial Port and configure your UART port using the parameters shown in Table 1
(you need to be an administrator on your local machine), see Figure 9.
Table 1: Parameters for Connecting to UART
Settings
Values
Baud rate
115200
Data bits
8
Parity
None
Stop bits
1
Flow Control
None

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Figure 9: Setting Up the Port and Testing Connectivity via Tera Term
Note: P0_4 and P0_5 ports are used during the boot sequence. That’s why you can see these
printed characters which coming out when opening the Tera term.
7.4 Troubleshooting
If there any problems with the ProDev Kit connection to PC some possible solutions might be:
•Make sure that your FTDI drivers are up to date. Drivers are available from the FTDI website.
•Check for possible cabling issues by using a different USB cable.
•Connect the two elements using a different USB port on the host PC.
•Make sure that the hardware configuration is set for Pro development Kit, see Figure 30 in
Appendix A.
Note: If none of these actions resolve the issue, please contact Dialog Tools Forums.
8 Software Development Tools
Dialog SmartSnippets™ Studio is a royalty-free software development platform for Smartbond™
devices. It fully supports the DA14585/586 family of devices.
For the DA14585/586, KEIL must be used for compilation and debug instead of using the supplied
SmartSnippets GNU ARM GCC. KEIL needs to be installed separately (it is not included).
SmartSnippets™ Studio contains:
•SmartSnippets™ Toolbox which covers all software development requirements, including:

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–Programming and loading of firmware into SRAM, OTP, and Flash
–Power profiling
•SmartSnippets™ documentation
The SmartSnippets™ IDE is enabled by an on-board J-Link debugger from SEGGER. This offers
standard debug capabilities such as single stepping, setting breakpoints, software download and many
more. For more details on the debugger capabilities, visit https://www.segger.com/.
8.1 SmartSnippets™ Installation
The installation procedure for SmartSnippets™ Studio is described in detail in UM-B-057
SmartSnippets Studio User Manual.
A summary of the steps is given here.
1. Download the latest version of SmartSnippets™ Studio from Software and tools, as shown in
Figure 10.
Figure 10: SmartSnippets Studio Install Link
2. Run the SmartSnippets™ Studio installer (.msi). Several of the required tools are automatically
installed, others need to be manually downloaded and installed.
3. Select to install the latest version of SEGGER J-Link GDB server and click Next.

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Figure 11: Automatically Install J-Link
4. Select the destination folder for the SmartSnippets™ Studio and click Next.
Figure 12: Select SmartSnippets™ Studio Install Directory
The SmartSnippets™ Studio is installed.
Note:
•The default Windows installation folder for SmartSnippets™ Studio is C:\DiaSemi.
•When Windows Defender is turned ON it will prevent the file SmartSnippets™ Studio
installer (.msi) from automatically running, click Run Anyway when prompted.
•Administrator access is required to install SmartSnippets Studio software components.

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8.2 KEIL Installation
KEIL µVision IDE must be downloaded and installed separately, registration is required.
1. Download and install the Keil tools from https://www.keil.com/demo/eval/arm.htm.
Note: The Keil development tools can be run as a Lite/Evaluation version without a product
license, see Figure 13 (File > License Management). This Lite/Evaluation version has a 32 kB of
code (in ROM) limitation.
Figure 13: Keil Lite version
2. When the install is complete, a list of packs is shown, see Figure 14. If you do not see this list:
a. Click the Packs Installer button (or select Project > Manage > Pack Installer).
b. Click the Check for Updates button to show an updated list of packs.
3. Click on the Install or Update button next to the “ARM::CMSIS” package if it is not up to date.

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Figure 14: CMSIS Package Installation successful
If the installation was successful, the Pack Installer window will show the summary displayed in Figure
15.
Figure 15: CMSIS Package Installation Successful

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9 Build a DA14585/586 Application
This section explains how the user can build, program, and run a simple software application on the
ProDev Kit development board.
Itprovidesstep-by-step instructions for loading the example as a project in the Keil environment, setting
it up and building it, and finally executing it via the debug environment on any of the DA14585/586
devices.
Make sure that you have all required tools installed as described in Section 7 and Section 8.
The DA14585/586 Software Development Kit (SDK) includes examples running on the Pro and the
Basic Development Kits. The examples are provided with preconfigured KEIL projects.
More details are provided in the DA14585 & DA14586 Software Developer's Guide (UM-B-080).
9.1 The Blinky Peripheral Example Application
Blinky is a simple application which demonstrates basic initialization of DA14585/586 and LED blinking.
After downloading the SDK, the blinky source code example can be found in the directory called
peripheral_examples.
1. Open the folder containing the SDK files. This is the folder where you extracted the SDK zip file.
2. In <sdk_root_directory>\projects\target_apps\peripheral_examples\blinky\Keil_5\, double-click
blinky.uvproj to open the project in Keil.
Figure 16: Blinky Project directory
To run Blinky or BLE Barebone examples you don’t need to install Dialog SmartSnippets™
Studio tool but it is a part of the full Development Environment.

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The development environment should look like this when the project is opened with Keil:
Figure 17: Blinky Project Keil Workspace
3. Click on the Target Options button, then click on the Device tab. The dialog should look like this.
Figure 18: Blinky Project Options
4. Click on Linker. Scatter files (.sct) are used for selecting memory areas.

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Figure 19: Blinky Project Scatter File
5. Click on Debug and ensure J-LINK/J-TRACE Cortex is selected and that the Initialization File
is set correctly to .sysram.ini.
Figure 20: Blinky Project: Debug Option
6. Click on Settings (on the right: Debugger) and check that the SW Device has been detected
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Figure 21: Blinky Project: Jlink setup
7. Click OK to save the settings in both windows. All settings have now been saved and you can
continue to build the example.
8. Build the project by pressing F7 key, or clicking the Build button, see Figure 22.
Figure 22: Blinky Project: Project Building
9. Make sure you have a UART connection between your PC and the motherboard, as shown in
Figure 7. Check the COM number on your PC.
10. Open Tera Term, choose the COM port from step 9, and click OK.
11. In Tera Term, Select Setup > Serial Port to configure the port as shown in Table 1.
12. In Keil, select Debug > Start/Stop Debug Session.