Lemon IoT – LTE CAT-M1/NB-IoT nRF9160 board

Connect your electronic project/product to the internet!

The board includes Nordic’s nrf9160  LTE CAT-M1/NB-IoT modem with GNSS. It provides access to all the modem’s GPIO pins, a Nano SIM card socket, and U.FL connectors for off-board antennas (LTE & GPS).

Features

• Nordic nRF9160 LTE CAT-M1/NB-IoT modem with GNSS.
• Access to all GPIO pins for full customisation.
• Nano SIM card socket
• Two U.FL connectors for off-board LTE and GPS antennas (antennas not included).
• Interfaces: UART, I2C, SPI etc.
• Input voltage: 3.3V via pin11 on header.
• “Hello world” code to get your project started (GitHub link below)

Kit contents

• 1x LTE – nRF9160 assembled board (excluding pin strip headers)
• 2x pin strip headers AND 2x stackable header to be soldered by end user as desired.

Technical specification

• nRF9160 compact, highly integrated System-in-Package (SiP) and low power LTE microcontroller.
• Supports both LTE CAT-M1 and NB-IoT
• Modem firmware updatable of the Air (FOTA)
• Arm Cortex-M33 application processor with 1MB of flash and 256KB RAM.
• Peripherals include  12-bit ADC, RTC, SPI, I²C, I²S, UARTE, PDM and PWM.
• Visit the Nordic nRF9160 website for certification details.
• U.FL connectors for connecting external LTE and GPS antennas.
• A RGB LED and a push button switch as a (initial) user interface.
• Support Nano SIMs
• 10-pin programming header for programming via an ARM programmer

Downloads

• GitHub (Schematics, diagrams and firmware)

Set-up guides

Lemon IoT – LTE nRF9160 hardware setup for programming without a bootloader

Lemon IoT – Software setup for programming Nordic nRF microcontrollers

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