Specification

1. Technical Details

Module

  • USB-C connection for USB-to-Serial

  • User I/O

    • 3x buttons (1 Reset, 2 General Purpose)

    • 3x LED (1 Charge Notice, 1 Error Notice, 1 General Purpose)

  • Antenna connections

    • 1x U.FL for LTE-Cat.M1/NB-IoT antenna

    • 1x U.FL for GPS antenna

  • Analog Temperature Sensor (TMP235)

    • Supply voltage: 2.3 - 5.5 V

    • Operating temperature range: (°C) -40 to 150

  • Accelerometer (LIS2DW12TR)

    • Supply voltage: 1.62 - 3.6 V

    • 16-bit data output

  • 1-A Linear Battery Charger (BQ25185)

    • Supply voltatge: 3.0 - 18.0 V

  • 32MB Nor Flash (BY25Q32ESTIG)

    • Supply voltage: 2.7 - 3.6V

    • Typical 100k Program-Erase cycles on any sector

    • Typical 20-year data retention

  • Form factor

    • 30.6mm x 77.8mm

Nordic Semiconductor nRF9151 SiP

  • Microcontroller

    • Arm® Cortex®-M33

      • 247 EEMBC CoreMark® score running from flash memory

      • Data watchpoint and trace (DWT), embedded trace macrocell (ETM), and instrumentation trace macrocell (ITM)

      • Serial wire debug (SWD)

      • Trace port

      • 1 MB flash

      • 256 KB low leakage RAM

      • Arm TrustZone®, CryptoCell 310

      • 4x SPI, 4x I2C, 4x UART, I2S with EasyDMA

      • Digital mircrophone interface (PDM), 4x pulse width modulator (PWM) units with EasyDMA

      • 12-bit, 200 ksps ADC with EasyDMA - 8x configurable channels with programmable gain

      • 3x 32-bit timer with counter mode

      • 2x real-time counter (RTC)

      • Programmable peripheral interconnect (PPI)

      • 32x GPIO

      • Single supply voltage from 3.0 V – 5.5 V

      • Integrated clock sources

      • LGA package 12.1x11.1x1.2 mm

  • LTE modem

    • Transceiver and baseband

    • 3GPP LTE release 14 Cat-M1 compliant

    • 3GPP LTE release 14 Cat-NB1 and Cat-NB2 compliant

    • 3GPP LTE release 17 IoT NTN compliant

    • GPS receiver

      • GPS L1 C/A supported

      • QZSS L1 C/A supported

    • RF transceiver for global coverage

      • Power Class 3 up to 23 dBm output power

      • Power Class 5 up to 20 dBm output power

      • -108 dBm sensitivity (Cat-M1) for low band, -107 dBm for mid band

      • Single 50 Ω antenna interface

    • LTE band support in hardware

      • Cat-M1: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B8, B12, B13, B18, B19, B20, B25, B26, B28, B66, B85, B106

      • Cat-NB1/NB2: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B8, B12, B13, B17, B19, B20, B25, B26, B28, B65, B66, B85. B106

      • IoT NTN: B23, B249, B252, B255, B256

    • Supports SIM and eSIM with an ETSI TS 102 221 compatible UICC interface

    • Power saving features include DRX, eDRX, PSM

    • IP v4/v6 stack

    • Secure socket (TLS/DTLS) API

  • DECT NR+

    • Maximum transmission power 21 dBm (Class II) on bands 1, 2, 9, 22

    • Maximum transmission power 19 dBm (Class III) on band 4

  • Supports 4FF Nano SIM

2. PIN MAP

  • Pin Description (Counterclockwise from top-left)

No.
Name
Direction
Features / Description

1

BTN0/P0.23

Input

General-purpose Button (internal pull-up)

2

VBAT(IN)

Input

Li-ion/Li-Po battery input

3

GND

—

Ground

4

VSYS(IN)

Input

System supply input (3.0-5.5 V)

5

GND

—

Ground

6

P0.15

I/O

General-purpose I/O

7

P0.31

I/O

General-purpose I/O

8

P0.29

I/O

General-purpose I/O

9

P0.30

I/O

General-purpose I/O

10

GND

—

Ground

11

P0.02

I/O

General-purpose I/O

12

P0.00

I/O

General-purpose I/O

13

P0.03

I/O

General-purpose I/O

14

P0.01

I/O

General-purpose I/O

15

GND

—

Ground

16

LED0/P0.16

Output

General-purpose LED (active low, green)

17

GND

—

Ground

18

P0.06/SCL

I/O

I2C clock line connected to onboard accelerometer

19

P0.07/SDA

I/O

I2C data line connected to onboard accelerometer

20

P0.08

I/O

General-purpose I/O

21

P0.19

I/O

General-purpose I/O

22

GND

—

Ground

23

P0.17

I/O

General-purpose I/O

24

P0.19

I/O

General-purpose I/O

25

P0.20

I/O

General-purpose I/O

26

RESET

Input

System reset

27

GND

—

Ground

28

V3.3(OUT)

Output

3.3V regulated output

29

GND

—

Ground

30

VBUS(IN)

Input

USB 5V power input

31

BTN1/P0.24

Input

General-purpose Button (internal pull-up)

  • Additional Hardware Interfaces (Counterclockwise from top-left)

Name
Features / Description

Battery

Li-ion/Li-Po rechargeable battery connector for standalone operation

LED_CHG LED_ERR

Charging/Error status indicator LED

SIM-SLOT

4FF Nano SIM socket (ETSI TS 102 221)

TMP235

Analog temperature sensor

LTE ANT

U.FL connector for LTE antenna

nRF9151

Low power SiP with integrated LTE-M/NB-IoT and DECT NR+ modem, and GNSS

GPS ANT

U.FL connector for GPS antenna

LIS2DW12

Accelerometer (16-bit data output)

BY25Q32ESTIG

32MB nor flash

J-LINK

10-pin SWD debug connector for programming and debugging

RST BTN

Reset push button connected to the nRF9151 reset line

TYPE-C

USB Type-C connector for power and data interface

3. Dimensions