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## Getting Started With the micro:bit Hardware
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The micro:bit hardware is based on the Arm-Mbed platform.
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It has an application processor with lots of on-chip perhipherals.
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It has an application processor with lots of on-chip peripherals.
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Some off-chip peripherals are connected to this chip.
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There is an interface processor connected to the application processor,
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and it is the interface processors job to manage communications over the USB
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A single, complete application including user code, runtime code and bluetooth stack
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is loaded and run directly from on chip flash memory.
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All user accessible GPIO pins are provided by this processor.
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There is an onboard 2.4GHz radio engine used to provide Bluetooth capabilities
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There is an on-board 2.4GHz radio engine used to provide Bluetooth capabilities
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via an off-chip aerial.
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### Bluetooth Wireless Communication
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The on board 2.4GHz transciever supports Bluetooth communications via the Nordic S110 SoftDevice,
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The on board 2.4GHz transceiver supports Bluetooth communications via the Nordic S110 SoftDevice,
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which provides a fully qualified Bluetooth low energy stack.
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This allows the micro:bit to communicate with a wide range of Bluetooth devices,
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including smartphones and tablets.
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### Low Level Radio Communications
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The on board 2.4GHz transciever supports a number of other radio communications standards, on which we build the microbit-radio protocol
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The on board 2.4GHz transceiver supports a number of other radio communications standards, on which we build the microbit-radio protocol
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This protocol provides a very simple small-packet broadcast radio interface between other devices
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that support it, such as other micro:bit devices.
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The 'radio' interface that appears in a number of the languages on the micro:bit
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Front buttons A and B can be programmed in the user application for any purpose.
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A and B are debounced by software, which also includes short press, long press,
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and 'both A+B' press detection. Buttons operate in a typical inverted electrical mode,
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where a pullup resistor ensures a logical '1' when the button is released,
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where a pull-up resistor ensures a logical '1' when the button is released,
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and a logical '0' when the button is pressed.
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Both A and B buttons are connected to GPIO pins that are also accessible on the micro:bit edge connector.
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| Type | 2 tactile user buttons, 1 tactile system button
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| Debounce | (A & B) software debounced, 54ms period
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| Pullup | (A & B) external 4K7, (System) 10K
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| Pull-up | (A & B) external 4K7, (System) 10K
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### Display
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| Type | minature surface mount red LED
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| Type | miniature surface mount red LED
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| Physical structure | 5x5 matrix
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| Electrical structure | 3x9
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| Intensity control | 10 steps
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| Operating range | 1.8V .. 3.6V
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| USB current | 120mA max
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| Onboard Peripherals budget | 30mA
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| On-board Peripherals budget | 30mA
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| Battery connector | JST X2B-PH-SM4-TB
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| Battery current | TBC
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| Max current provided via edge connector | 90mA
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The interface processor can be used with special host tools to debug
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code that is running on the application processor. It connects to the application
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processor via 4 signal wires. The KL26 interface processor code can also
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be debuged via it's integral SWD software debug interface, for example to
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be debugged via it's integral SWD software debug interface, for example to
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load initial bootloader code into this processor at manufacturing time, or to
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recover a lost bootloader.
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