NXP Semiconductors MIMXRT1015 User manual

MIMXRT1015 EVK Board Hardware User’s
Guide
NXP Semiconductors Document identifier: MIMXRT1015EVKHUG
User's Guide Rev. 0, 27 March 2020

Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction........................................................................................... 3
1.1 Board overview..........................................................................................................................3
1.2 MIMXRT1015 EVK Contents.....................................................................................................4
1.3 MIMXRT1015 EVK Board revision history.................................................................................4
Chapter 2 Specifications........................................................................................ 5
2.1 i.MX RT1015 Processor............................................................................................................ 6
2.2 Boot Mode Configurations.........................................................................................................6
2.3 Power Tree................................................................................................................................7
2.4 QSPI Flash.............................................................................................................................. 10
2.5 USB PHY Connector............................................................................................................... 10
2.6 Audio input / output Connector................................................................................................10
2.7 OpenSDA circuit (DAP-Link)................................................................................................... 10
2.8 JTAG Connector......................................................................................................................10
2.9 Arduino and Motor control Expansion Port..............................................................................11
2.10 ON/OFF Button......................................................................................................................11
2.11 Reset Button..........................................................................................................................11
2.12 USER Button......................................................................................................................... 12
2.13 User Interface LED Indicator................................................................................................. 12
Chapter 3 PCB Information..................................................................................13
Chapter 4 EVK Design Files................................................................................ 14
Chapter 5 Contents of the Evaluation Kit.............................................................15
Chapter 6 Revision history...................................................................................16
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Chapter 1
Introduction
This Hardware User’s Guide for the MIMXRT1015 Evaluation Kit (EVK) is based on the NXP Semiconductor i.MX RT1015
Processor. This board is fully supported by NXP Semiconductor. The guide includes system setup and debugging, and provides
detailed information on the overall design and usage of the EVK board from a hardware systems perspective.
1.1 Board overview
This EVK board is a platform designed to showcase the most commonly used features of the i.MX RT1015 Processor in a small,
low cost package. The MIMXRT1015 EVK board is an entry level development board, which gives the developer the option of
becoming familiar with the processor before investing a large amount or resources in more specific designs.
Features of the MIMXRT1015 EVK board are shown in Table 1
Board features
Table 1. Board features
Processor NXP Processor MIMXRT1015
DCDC MPS MP2144GJ
LDO UNION UM1750S-00
Mass Storage
128 Mbit Quad SPI Flash
4 Mbit LPSPI FLASH (DNP)
USB USB 2.0 OTG Connector
Audio Connector
3.5 mm Audio Stereo Headphone Jack
Board-Mounted Microphone
Left & Right Speaker Out Connectors
SPDIF Interface (DNP)
Debug Connector
JTAG 10-pin Connector (SWD by default)
OpenSDA with DAP-Link
Sensor FXOS8700CQ: 6-Axis Ecompass (3-Axis Mag, 3-Axis Accel) (DNP)
User Interface Button ON/OFF, POR Reset, POWER Reset, USER Button
Led Indicator Power Status, Reset, OpenSDA, USER LED
Expansion Port Arduino Interface
PCB 3.346-inch x 3.543-inch (8.5cm x 9cm), 2-layer board
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1.2 MIMXRT1015 EVK Contents
The MIMXRT1015 EVK contains the following items:
• MIMXRT1015 EVK Board
• USB Cable (Micro B)
1.3 MIMXRT1015 EVK Board revision history
• Rev A: Pilot.
• Rev B: Mass Product.
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Chapter 2
Specifications
This chapter provides detailed information about the electrical design and practical considerations of the EVK Board, and is
organized to discuss each block in the following block diagram of the EVK board See Figure 1.
Figure 1. Block diagram
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Figure 2. Overview of the MIMXRT1015 EVK Board (Front side)
The overview of the MIMXRT1015 EVK Board is shown in Figure 2.
2.1 i.MX RT1015 Processor
The is a new processor family featuring NXP's advanced implementation of the Arm Cortex-M7 Core. It provides high CPU
performance and best real-time response. The provides various memory interfaces, including NOR FLASH, Quad SPI, HyperBus
and a wide range of other interfaces for connecting peripherals, such as WLAN, Bluetooth ™ , GPS. Same as other i.MX
processors, i.MX RT1015 also has rich audio features, including SPDIF and I2S audio interface.
The i.MX RT1015 applications processor can be used in areas such as industrial , IoT, motor control and home appliances , etc .
The architecture's flexibility enables it to be used in a wide variety of other general embedded applications too. The i.MX processor
provides all interfaces necessary to connect peripherals such as WLAN, Bluetooth™, GPS .
The more detail information about i.MX RT1015 can be found in the Datasheet and Reference Manual.
2.2 Boot Mode Configurations
The device has four boot modes (one is reserved for NXP use). The boot mode is selected based on the binary value stored in
the internal BOOT_MODE register. Switch (SW8-3 & SW8-4) is used to select the boot mode on the MIMXRT1015 EVK Board.
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Table 2. Boot Mode pin settings
BOOT_MODE[1:0] (SW8-3 SW8-4) BOOT Type
00 Boot From Fuses
01 Serial Downloader
10 Internal Boot
11 Reserved
Typically, the internal boot is selected for normal boot, which is configured by external BOOT_CFG GPIOs. The following Table
3 shows the typical Boot Mode and Boot Device settings.
Table 3. Typical Boot Mode and Boot Device settings
SW8-1 SW8-2 SW8-3 SW8-4 Boot Device
OFF OFF ON OFF QSPI Flash
For more information about boot mode configuration, see the System Boot chapter of the MIMXRT1015 Reference
Manual.
For more information about MIMXRT1015 EVK boot device selection and configuration, see the main board
schematic.
NOTE
2.3 Power Tree
J41 and J9 can be used to supply the EVK Board. A DC 5V external power supply also can be used to supply the EVK Board by
connecting two pins in J1. Different power supply need to configure different Jumper setting of J1. Table 4 shows the details:
Table 4. Jumper settings of Power Supply
Power Supply J1 Setting
J9 3-4
J41 1-2
External 5-6(7-8)
For some computers’ USB, it cannot support 500ma before establishing communication. In this case, it is
recommended to replace the computer.
NOTE
The power tree is shown in Figure 3.
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Figure 3. Power Tree
The power control logic of the MIMXRT1015 EVK board is shown in Figure 4:
• It will power up SNVS , and then PMIC_REQ_ON will be switched on to enable external DC/DC to power up other power
domains.
• ON/OFF button is used to switch ON/OFF PMIC_REQ_ON to control power modes.
• RESET button and WDOG output are used to reset the system power.
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Figure 4. Power Control Diagram
The power rails on the board are shown in Table 5
Table 5. Power Rails
Power Rail MIN
(V)
TYP
(V)
MAX
(V)
Description
VDD_SOC_IN 0.925 -- 1.3 Core supplies input
voltage
VDD_HIGH_IN 33.3 3.6 VDD_HIGH_IN supply
voltage
DCDC_IN 3 3.3 3.6 Power for DCDC
VDD_SNVS_IN 2.4 3 3.6 Power for SNVS and
RTC
USB_OTG1_VBUS 4.4 5 5.5 Power for USB VBUS
VDDA_ADC 3 3.3 3.6 Power for 12-bit ADC
NVCC_GPIO 3 3.3 3.6 IO power for GPIO
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2.4 QSPI Flash
A 128 Mbit QSPI Flash is used on the MIMXRT1015 EVK Board. If the developer wants to boot from the QSPI Flash, the boot
device switch(SW8) settings should be: OFF, OFF, ON, OFF, as shown in Table 3.
2.5 USB PHY Connector
The MIMXRT1015 contains a integrated USB 2.0 PHYs capable of connecting to USB host/device systems at the USB low-speed
(LS) rate of 1.5 Mbits/s, full-speed (FS) rate of 12 Mbits/s or at the USB 2.0 high-speed (HS) rate of 480 Mbits/s.
2.6 Audio input / output Connector
The Audio CODEC used on the MIMXRT1015 EVK Board is Wolfson’s Low Power, high quality Stereo Codec, WM8960.The
MIMXRT1015 EVK Board include one headphone interface (J11), one onboard MIC (P1), two speaker interfaces (J12, J13) ,
and the SPDIF interface (J52 & J53, DNP). J11 is a 3.5 mm audio stereo headphone jack, which supports jack detect.
2.7 OpenSDA circuit (DAP-Link)
The OpenSDA circuit (CMSIS–DAP) is an open-standard serial and debug adapter. It bridges serial and debug communications
between a USB host and an embedded target processor.
CMSIS-DAP features a mass storage device (MSD) bootloader, which provides a quick and easy mechanism for loading different
CMSIS-DAP Applications such as flash programmers, run-control debug interfaces, serial-to-USB converters, and more. Two or
more CMSIS-DAP applications can run simultaneously. For example, run-control debug application and serial-to-USB converter
runs in parallel to provide a virtual COM communication interface while allowing code debugging via CMSIS-DAP with just single
USB connection.
For the MIMXRT1015 EVK Board, J41 is the connector between the USB host and the target processor. Jumper to serial
downloader mode to use stable DAP-Link debugger function. If developer wants to make OpenSDA going to the bootloader
mode, and press SW9 when power on. Meanwhile, the OpenSDA supports drag/drop feature for U-Disk. First, use the seral
downloader mode and drag/drop the image file to U-Disk. Then select QSPI Flash as boot device and reset the Board, the image
will run.
2.8 JTAG Connector
J55 is a standard 10-pin/1.27 mm Box Header Connector for JTAG. The pin definitions are shown in Figure 5 support SWD by
default.
Figure 5. JTAG pin definitions
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