Connect to BM70

Connect the BM70 PICtail^™ to your PC. Ensure the jumpers are set as shown.

a

COM Port

Open the Device Manager window by going to Start Menu > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound and then selecting 'Device Manager'. Once open, check which COM Port has been assigned to the BM70 PICtail. In this case, it is COM18. Please note that yours will probably be different.

b

Test Mode

Place the module in Test Mode by setting SW7 in the ON position, then press Reset (SW5) to reset the module.

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The module's basic operating mode (Test/Application) is sampled and established on a module reset condition. We recommend pressing the Reset (SW5) push-button whenever SW7 is first changed, or when you want to be sure that SW7 is sampled and applied by the module.

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With jumper JP8 shorted, LED0 will be lit (BLUE) indicating the module is in Test Mode, as shown above.

Launch the User Interface Configuration Tool

After extracting files from the User Interface (UI) Configuration Tool ZIP file, double-click on the application file called IS187x_102_BLEDK3_UI v100.132.exe to launch the utility.

Immediately after launch, the Start Menu window will pop up. Before we can do anything with this tool, we must load a UI parameter table. One way to load the UI parameters is by using an existing UI text file.

Click on Load in the Start Menu window.

Load Text File

Edit Text File

Once the text file has been loaded, the edit button will be enabled. Click on Edit.

When you press the edit button to start editing UI parameters, the Main Feature window will pop up. This is where you can select the target application. BLEDK3 supports all BLE operations, while the Beacon mode is used for non-connectable advertising only. If 'BeaconThings' is selected, the module will support both BLEDK and Beacon operations.

For the purposes of this demo, we will only select 'BLEDK 0x00: BM70' and then click OK.

System Setup Window

Immediately after we click OK, we will see the Function Settings window pop up. It is in this window that most module parameters can be configured. As we can see, there are a few different tabs, each with different settings we can change. The first tab, System Setup, is where we find all the system configurations. We can change our device’s name, change the UART’s settings, select between Manual and Auto Pattern Modes, change security settings, etc.

In the second tab, System Setup2, we find the GPIO Configuration table as well as more system configuration settings. The I/O pins on the BM70 can be configured as either a control or an indication signal. The GPIO Configuration table shown on the System Setup2 tab provides configurable I/O pin assignment details for the control and indication signals of the BM70 BLEDK3 application.

Feel free to browse to the tabs and explore the different settings that can be configured to best fit your application. Below is a brief explanation of the rest of the tabs.

• LE Mode Setup: This tab contains the LE mode settings.
• GATT Service Table: In this tab, the user can build their own GATT service table.
• LED Setup: This tab is the P0_2/LED0 configuration page. This is a fixed function status output in BLEDK3, and it indicates what state the module is currently in via the LED flash pattern.
• Beacon Setup: This tab contains all the iBeacon configurations.

Device Name

Usually the first setting customers choose to change is the Name Fragment under the Device Information section. This allows you to easily identify your device. In this case we chose to name the module DeveloperHelp.

UART RX IND

Another important setting on this tool is the UART RX_IND. In order to reduce current consumption, BLEDK3 will automatically enter Low-Power mode if UART RX_IND is enabled and UART_RX_IND pin is assigned. When in normal power mode of operation, the module runs a 16 MHz clock; in Low-Power mode, the module runs a 32KHz clock. The Low-Power operation mode also disables the module UART section and thus the host MCU has no way to communicate with the module. If the host MCU needs to send/receive data/commands to the module, then the only way to do it is to pull the UART_RX_IND pin low. By default, the UART_RX_IND pin is enabled, but for the purposes of this lab we will disable it, therefore preventing the module from entering Low-Power mode.

Operation Pattern

Using this UI Tool the user can also select whether the BM70 will operate on Auto Pattern Mode or Manual Pattern Mode. Refer to the Operating Modes page to learn more about Auto and Manual Pattern modes.

Go ahead and select the mode you wish to use.

Save Settings

After we have made all the desired changes, we need to write these new configuration settings into our module. Click on Finish.

Write Settings

After that window closes, select Write on the Start Menu window that remains open.

On the window that opens, select the correct COM port that has been assigned to your BM70 PICtail and for Baudrate select 115200. Then click on the Write button.

Finish

You will see a window asking if you are sure you want to write to the EFLASH, select Yes.

Lastly you will see a window letting you know the write has been successful. Click on OK.

You can now close the Start Menu window.