US159-DA14531EVZ Firmware Upgrade

Overview

This document describes how to upgrade the firmware in the Renesas US159-DA14531EVZ Pmod™.

Procedure

The DA14531 Pmod board provides a 9-pin SWD connector marked J2 for Cortex-M debug. Serial wire debug is achieved using SWDIO and SWCLK to connect related pins of J-Link.

1- Connect J2 on DA14531 PMOD board to connector of the J-Link debugger/programmer.

Note

Considering that the RESET pin of DA14531 using an active high, contrary to an active low signal for J-Link, do not connect pin 10 of J2 to nRESET of J-Link.

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Figure 1 J2 Pinout

2- Open the Renesas SmartBond™ Flash Programmer. If the JTAG device is “Undetected” automatically, click “Undetected” and select DA14531.

Note

You can download the Renesas SmartBond™ Flash Programmer from the SmartBond™ Development Tools product page

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Figure 2 SmartBond™ Flash Programmer

3- Check the selected JTAG device. Then, click Search Online to select the binary file you want to program into the DA15431. The binary to be programmed can be selected from the online resources available via the tool.

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Figure 3 Download the binary from the online resource

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Figure 4 Selecting the Binary File

The binary can be selected also from the PC, user can click to Browse.

4- After programming, disconnect the board from the PC.

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Figure 5 Programming Complete

Revision History

Table 1 Revision History

Revision

Date

Description

1.0

14-Mar-2023

Initial release