Features

• Description
• SparkFun has teamed up with CircuitDojo to bring you the SparkFun nRF9160 Thing Plus, featuring the powerful Nordic nRF9160 microcontroller in a Feather-compatible footprint. This little chip is capable of both CAT M1 LTE and NB-IoT cellular communication and is designed to work with Zephyr, the go-to RTOS for embedded development. To make the Thing Plus even easier to ***, this board utilizes our handy Qwiic Connect System which means no soldering or shields are required to connect it to the rest of your system!
• Not only can you take advantage of Nordic's advanced power states, but you can also put the device into a low power standby state. Laboratory measurements are putting that mode at about 2μA of current. 2μA! It also features a 3.3V Buck-Boost which ****s get every mWh from your batteries as possible.
• No batteries? No problem! Power your nRF9160 Thing Plus externally with a USB-C cable. Keep it on at all times for high availability scenarios.
• Want to persist data? The nRF9160 Thing Plus has a 4MB external flash for storing data while offline. Using external flash with a filesystem like LitteFS and you'll have a project to recon with!
• The SparkFun Qwiic Connect System is an ecosystem of I2C sensors, actuators, shields and cables that make prototyping faster and less prone to error. All Qwiic-enabled boards *** a common 1mm pitch, 4-pin JST connector. This reduces the amount of required PCB space, and polarized connections mean you can't hook it up wrong.
• Get Started with the SparkFun nRF9160 Thing Plus Hookup Guide
• Features
• Nordic nRF9160 Microcontroller with ARM Cortex M33
• 1MB Flash
• 256kB RAM
• ARM®TrustZone®
• ARM®Cryptocell 310
• Up to 4x SPI, I2C and UART with Easy DMA
• I2S w/ EasyDMA
• 4x PWM with EasyDMA
• 12bit SADC with EasyDMA
• 2x RTC
• PPI(Programmable peripheral interconnect)interface
• Radio
• Transceiver and baseband
• 3GPP LTE release 13 Category M1 and NB1 compliant
• 3GPP release 14 NB2 compliant
• GPS receiver(GPS L1 C/A supported)- Active antenna only.
• RF Transceiver for global coverage supporting bands:Cat-M1:B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B8, B12, B13, B14, B17, B18, B19, B20, B25, B26, B28, B66
• Cat-NB1/NB2:B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B8, B12, B13, B17, B18, B20, B25, B26, B28, B66
• Supports 4FF Nano SIM
• USB-C connection for USB-to-Serial and DFU
• Pre-programmed MCUBoot bootloader
• External NOR Flash by Winbond
• 4MB of space
• Max bus speed of 133MHz
• Standard SPI
• Power supply
• 3.3V Buck/Boost up to 0.9A of current draw
• Operating range 2.8 to 5.5V
• External LiPoly battery connection(JST SPH type)
• Charge rate set to 300mA with LED indication
• Programmer
• Capable of interfacing with J-Link and CMSIS-DAP based programmers
• Low Power RTC on board for time keeping and as a low power wakeup source.
• User I/O
• Standard feather form factor GPIOs(0.1" pitch)
• 2x buttons(1 Reset, 1 General Purpose)
• 1x Blue LED connected to D7
• Antenna connections:1x U.FL for LTE with matching network
• 1x U.FL for active GPS antennas
• Feather form factor
• 58.42mm×22.86mm(2.3"×0.9")