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7. Using the Si1000 Motherboard with the Wireless Development Suite

The Si1000 motherboard is supported by the Wireless Development Suite. Some features of the Wireless

Development Suite will be disabled when connected to an Si1000 motherboard. See the Wireless Development

Suite documentation for details. When using the Wireless Development Suite, the following configurations are

required:

J18 - shorting blocks should be closed if using an Si1000/1/2/3/4/5 device and open otherwise.

J19 - shorting blocks should be closed if using an Si1010/1/2/3/4/5 device and open otherwise.

J20 - shorting blocks should be closed

J12 - 3 shorting blocks (closest to USB connector) should be closed to enable UART communication.

Firmware is currently in development to allow the Si10xx daughtercards to connect to the Wireless Development

Suite through the Si1000 Motherboard.

8. Using Si10xx Daughtercards with the Wireless Development Suite

To enable all the features of the Wireless Development Suite, the Si10xx daughtercards may be used directly with

wireless development suite, without an Si1000 motherboard. The Si10xx daughtercards must be programmed with

“pass-through” firmware to make them appear as fixed-function, stand-alone EZRadioPRO devices such as the

Si4430/1/2/3. An SDBC-DK3 development kit is required to connect to the Wireless Development Suite in this

mode.

To program the Si10xx daughtercards for this mode, download the following hex file to the daughtercard:

For Si100x daughtercards:

C:\Silabs\MCU\Examples\Si100x\EZRadioPRO\SPI_PassThrough\SPI_PassThrough.hex

For Si101x daughtercards:

C:\Silabs\MCU\Examples\Si101x\EZRadioPRO\SPI_PassThrough\SPI_PassThrough.hex

After the “pass-through” code is downloaded to the daughtercard, it may be used as a standard daughercard for

the SDBC-DK3 development kit. See the SDBC-DK3 documentation for more details.

9. Using the Si1000 Motherboard with a CP240x LCD Development Board

The Si1000 motherboard supports the CP2400 and CP2401 development boards for developing LCD applications.

When using an LCD development board, the following configurations are required:

J18 - shorting blocks should be closed if using an Si1000/1/2/3/4/5 device and open otherwise.

J19 - shorting blocks should be closed if using an Si1010/1/2/3/4/5 device and open otherwise.

J20 - shorting blocks should be open

When a CP240x development board is connected to the Si1000 motherboard, the Port I/O usage matrix shown in

Figure 7 should be used for software development.