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SparkFun Thing Plus - nRF9160

SKU: WRL-17354 Brand: Sparkfun

SparkFun has teamed up with CircuitDojo to bring you the SparkFun nRF9160 Thing Plus, featuring the powerful Nordic nRF9160 microcontroller in a Feather-compatible...

$254.95 AUD, inc GST

$231.77 AUD, exc GST

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SparkFun has teamed up with CircuitDojo to bring you the SparkFun nRF9160 Thing Plus, featuring the powerful Nordic nRF9160 microcontroller in a Feather-compatible footprint. This little chip is capable of both CAT M1 LTE and NB-IoT cellular communication and is designed to work with Zephyr, the go-to RTOS for embedded development. To make the Thing Plus even easier to use, this board utilizes our handy Qwiic Connect System which means no soldering or shields are required to connect it to the rest of your system!

Not only can you take advantage of Nordic's advanced power states, but you can also put the device into a low power standby state. Laboratory measurements are putting that mode at about 2µA of current. 2µA! It also features a 3.3V Buck-Boost which helps get every mWh from your batteries as possible.

No batteries? No problem! Power your nRF9160 Thing Plus externally with a USB-C cable. Keep it on at all times for high availability scenarios.

Want to persist data? The nRF9160 Thing Plus has a 4MB external flash for storing data while offline. Using external flash with a filesystem like LitteFS and you'll have a project to recon with!

The SparkFun Qwiic Connect System is an ecosystem of I²C sensors, actuators, shields and cables that make prototyping faster and less prone to error. All Qwiic-enabled boards use a common 1mm pitch, 4-pin JST connector. This reduces the amount of required PCB space, and polarized connections mean you can't hook it up wrong.

Get Started with the SparkFun nRF9160 Thing Plus Hookup Guide

Includes

1x SparkFun Thing Plus - nRF9160
1x Hologram SIM Card

Features

Nordic nRF9160 Microcontroller with ARM Cortex M33
- 1MB Flash
- 256kB RAM
- ARM® TrustZone®
- ARM® Cryptocell 310
- Up to 4x SPI, I2C and UART with Easy DMA
- I2S w/ EasyDMA
- 4x PWM with EasyDMA
- 12bit SADC with EasyDMA
- 2x RTC
- PPI (Programmable peripheral interconnect) interface
- Radio
  - Transceiver and baseband
  - 3GPP LTE release 13 Category M1 and NB1 compliant
  - 3GPP release 14 NB2 compliant
  - GPS receiver (GPS L1 C/A supported) - Active antenna only.
  - RF Transceiver for global coverage supporting bands:
    - Cat-M1: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B8, B12, B13, B14, B17, B18, B19, B20, B25, B26, B28, B66
    - Cat-NB1/NB2: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B8, B12, B13, B17, B18, B20, B25, B26, B28, B66
  - Supports 4FF Nano SIM
USB-C connection for USB-to-Serial and DFU
Pre-programmed MCUBoot bootloader
External NOR Flash by Winbond
- 4MB of space
- Max bus speed of 133MHz
- Standard SPI
Power supply
- 3.3V Buck/Boost up to 0.9A of current draw
- Operating range 2.8 to 5.5V
- External LiPoly battery connection (JST SPH type)
- Charge rate set to 300mA with LED indication
Programmer
- Capable of interfacing with J-Link and CMSIS-DAP based programmers
Low Power RTC on board for time keeping and as a low power wakeup source.
User I/O
- Standard feather form factor GPIOs (0.1" pitch)
- 2x buttons (1 Reset, 1 General Purpose)
- 1x Blue LED connected to D7
Antenna connections:
- 1x U.FL for LTE with matching network
- 1x U.FL for active GPS antennas
Feather form factor
- 58.42mm x 22.86mm (2.3" x 0.9")

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