pca10028 what is it?

RE: pca10028 what is it?

tesc — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:12:36 GMT

Hi,

It stands for "Printed Circuit Assembly", just as Andrew suggested in this thread three years ago, but as awneil commented the name is not important. It is just a way for us to name our various development kits and other boards.

What IC is used on a particular PCA, such as a Development Kit or Dongle, is stated in the documentation for that PCA.

Can you elaborate on what information you find to be missing?

Regards,
Terje

RE: pca10028 what is it?

awneil — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:09:03 GMT

It doesn't really matter what "PCA" stands for.

As already noted, It's just the Nordic part number for their boards - they are all PCAnnnnn.

If you have a board, and want to know what it is - just google the board's part number.
If you have a particular chip in mind, and want to know what board(s) use it, just go to the chip's product page - relevant development tools will be mentioned there.

RE: pca10028 what is it?

pdpro — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:41:35 GMT

I skimmed almost entire documentation of Nordic, but didn't find any reference of what PCA stands for. Looking forward for someone to reply on this along with release IC number matrix for PCA releases just like soft devices.

RE: pca10028 what is it?

tesc — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:45:31 GMT

Unfortunately I do not think we have an overview of which DK and Dongle has which PCA number. The closest thing is the compatibility matrix for each SoC on Infocenter, see for instance IC revisions compatibility with development HW for development hardware for the nRF52832. Usually one would first figure out what SoC to go for, then get a DK for that SoC, then use an SDK version supporting that DK.

Our current DKs are:

PCA10028: nRF51 DK
PCA10040: nRF52 DK
PCA10056: nRF52840 Preview DK

Our current Dongle is:

PCA10031: nRF51 Dongle

RE: pca10028 what is it?

Carlos Delfino — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:35:49 GMT

Where can I get more details about PCA and the models?

RE: pca10028 what is it?

tesc — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:01:32 GMT

I think that is the case, yes.

RE: pca10028 what is it?

Andrew — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 20:44:37 GMT

Would it be correct to assume that pca refers to "Printed Circuit Assembly?" If so, this mean the PCB (Printer Circuit Board) plus the components, making it a full assembly). This would then be used to refer to a particular development board.

RE: pca10028 what is it?

tesc — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:00:11 GMT

Hi,

As Punit wrote, the pca10028 sticker is marking what type of board this is. This number is used for instance in the SDK release notes to tell what boards are supported, and in the SDK itself to contain the project files for the particular board. To use pca10028 you should use project files in the pca10028 folder.

You are correct in your assumptions for what project to use for Eclipse.

As you suggest, the .hex file is used for downloading to the board.

To do this (not using mbed) you can use for instance nrfjprog:

nrfjprog --program nrf51422_xxac.hex

You may have to erase the flash first:

nrfjprog -e

Regards, Terje

RE: pca10028 what is it?

Punit — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:43:08 GMT

pca10028 is the name of the hardware board that u are using.Although i dont have much experience with armgcc environment as i use keil,there are many good tutorials on using eclipse for nrf-dk on the nordic site and elsewhere.

This might help you:ARM-GCC+Eclipse,Setting up with keil

You can also use Keil[with limited code size], with very limited setup.For downloading code, you can directly use nrf-goStudio.