BBC microbit
The BBC micro:bit is an educational evaluation board series published by BBC. It comes with a Nordic Semiconductor nRF CPU and an on board debug probe. As for now, there are two versions of this board available.
J-Link Support
The on board debug probe can be upgraded to a J-Link OB which comes with the following features:
- Fully compatible with the J-Link features
- Enables full featured development with SEGGER Embedded Studio IDE
- Enables the use of a range of IDEs (all IDEs supporting J-Link)
- Maintains support of HEX file Drag and Drop
- Getting started Demo project for Embedded Studio available
Upgrade to J-Link OB
A detailed description of how to upgrade the DAP.Link to a J-Link can be found here:
Hardware versions
There are different hardware versions of the micro:bit available.
BBC micro:bit V1
- Target MCU: Nordic Semiconductor nRF51 (16 MHz Cortex-M0+)
- RESET button
- Power indicator LED
- 5x5 LED indicator matrix
- Power conenctor
- BLE Antenna
- Pin interface
- Compass
- Accelometer
- Pin interface
BBC micro:bit V2
The BBC micro:bit V2 comes with all features and a different target CPU compared to the micro:bit V1.
- Target MCU: Nordic Semiconductor nRF52 (64 MHz Cortex-M4)
- Additional feature: Speaker
- Additional feature: Microphone