DA16200 Thing Plus Hookup Guide

Software Overview

Driver

Users will need to install the CH340 driver to allow their computer to recognize the serial-to-UART chip on the board. Most of the latest operating systems will recognize serial-to-UART chip and automatically install the required driver. However, users can also download the driver from the WCH website to manually install it on their computer. For more information, check out our How to Install CH340 Drivers Tutorial.

Program and Interact

There are several methods in which users can program and/or interact with the DA16200MOD module. To get started, users should use the serial debug interface to update the firmware on the module before anything else.

Serial Debug Interface

The DA16200 module provides a command/debug interface on UART0 for performing configuration and diagnostic functions. Users can send basic commands through the USB connection to access the basic functions on the DA16200 module. To update the firmware/bootloader on the DA16200 Thing Plus, a serial terminal application that supports Y-Modem is required.

• For Windows computers, we recommend Tera Term. Please refer to the serial terminal basics tutorial to get started with installing and utilizing Tera Term:

  Serial Terminal Basics

  September 9, 2013

  This tutorial will show you how to communicate with your serial devices using a variety of terminal emulator applications.

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• On Linux computers, users should install minicom.

  language:bash
  sudo apt install minicom 
  

Once installed, users will need to configure the serial terminal with the following settings for the COM port they are utilizing:

• Baud Rate: 230400 bps
• Data Bits: 8 (8-N-1)
• Parity: None
• Stop Bits: 1
• Flow Control (HW/SW): None

For a full list of the available debug interface commands, please refer to Appendix B of the DA16200 FreeRTOS Getting Started Guide. Users can also refer to sections 4.4 - 4.6 and section 6 of the DA16200 FreeRTOS Getting Started Guide for more examples of how to utilize the serial debug interface.

Dialog DA16200 SDK

For those who are interested using the Dialog DA16200 FreeRTOS SDK, check out our getting started tutorial:

For more information on the DA16200 FreeRTOS SDK, please check out the following resources

AT Commands

Users can still utilize AT Commands to control the DA16200 Thing Plus; however they will need to reprogram the bootloader and firmware on the board. For more information on using AT commands check out the tutorials for our other DA16200 boards:

For more information using the AT Commands, please check out the following resources

• AT Command User Manual
• AT GUI Tool User Manual

Demos

Here are a few webinar demonstrations from Arm, utilizing the DA16200 module with AT commands: