Silicon Labs BG22 BLUETOOTH® Wireless SoC Explorer Kit is an ultra-low-cost, small form factor development and evaluation platform for the EFR32BG22 Gecko Wireless Bluetooth System-on-Chip. The Explorer Kit provides the necessary tools for developing a Silicon Labs wireless application. The BG22 Explorer Kit includes a mikroBUS™ socket and Qwiic® connector, allowing users to add features to the kit with a large selection of off-the-shelf boards.
Programming the Silicon Labs BG22 Bluetooth Wireless SoC Explorer Kit is easily done using a USB Micro-B cable and the onboard J-Link debugger. A USB virtual COM port provides a serial connection to the target application, and the Packet Trace Interface (PTI) offers invaluable debug information about transmitted and received packets in wireless links. The BG22 Bluetooth Wireless SoC Explorer Kit is supported in Simplicity Studio™ and a Board Support Package (BSP) is provided to give application developers a flying start.
Connecting external hardware to the Silicon Labs BG22 Bluetooth Wireless SoC Explorer Kit can be done using the 20 breakout pads which present peripherals from the EFR32BG22 Wireless Gecko such as I2C, SPI, UART, and GPIOs. The mikroBUS socket allows inserting mikroBUS add-on boards that interface with the EFR32BG22 through SPI, UART, or I2C. The Qwiic connector can be used to connect hardware from the Qwiic Connect System through I2C.