
QN9080-001-M17 DK User’s Guide
QN9080-001-M17 DK, QN9080-001-M17, BLE.
This document is an introduction to the QN9080-001-M17 DK board.

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1. Introduction
The QN9080-001-M17 DK board is designed to ease the evaluation of the chip's
functions and performance on customer side to make it easy to control, connect, and
debug the extension hardware and make it easy for the customer to develop and debug
firmware.
1.1 Purpose
This document introduces all functions of the QN9080-001-M17 DK board and describes
all its parts in detail.
1.2 Kit contents
QN9080-001-M17 DK includes the following:
QN9080-001-M17 DK board.
QN9080 USB dongle.
NFC antenna.
USB cable.

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2. Hardware description
The QN9080-001-M17 DK board provides easy access to peripherals, such as buttons
and LEDs. The board also provides useful interfaces, such as the USB port for UART
communication, the CMSIS-DAP debugger, and the standard Arduino and Pmod
connector. The USB dongle is a Bluetooth® device powered by QN9080. It acts as a
master/slave when communicating with QN9080-001-M17 devices.
2.1 Hardware overview
The QN9080-001-M17 DK board is shown in Fig 1. The detailed information is listed in
Table 1.
Fig 1. Board overview
Table 1. QN9080-001-M17 DK board’s mark information list
The QN9080-001-M17 USB port provides power supply
to the whole board and the USB interface of the
QN9080-001-M17 chip.
The LPC4322 USB port provides power supply to the
whole board and the USB interface is connected to
LPC4322.
LPC4322 works as a JTAG/SWD debugger.
The QN9080-001-M17 module board.
This jumper selects the JTAG/SWD debugging target:
• Open: on-board target (default).
• Short: off-board target.
This jumper selects the LPC4322 working mode:
• Short: DFU mode enabled.
• Open: normal mode (default).

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Table 1. QN9080-001-M17 DK board’s mark information list
This jumper selects the QN9080-001-M17 module power
supply voltage:
• 1-2: 1.8 V power supply.
• 2-3: 3.0 V power supply (default).
This jumper selects the transceiver mode to QN9080001-M17 UART:
• Short: UART interface enabled (default).
• Open: UART interface disabled.
This jumper selects the transceiver mode to the QN9080001-M17 I2C interface:
• Short: I2C interface enabled (default).
• Open: I2C interface disabled.
QN9080-001-M17 GPIO for testing and compatible with
the Arduino interface.
QN9080-001-M17 GPIO for testing and compatible with
the Arduino interface.
These jumpers are used for the power consumption test.
13
PMod interface connector, compatible with PMod.
Used to offer the JTAG/SWD interfaces to the off-board
target.
This jumper selects the QN9080-001-M17 power supply
source: on-board power or EXT power.
Button3 resets the QN9080-001-M17 chip.
Button1 is used for user-defined function.
Button2 is used for user-defined function.
Jumper used to enable the QN9080-001-M17 ISP
function.
GND pin used as the test point of ground.
Jumper used to eliminate the leakage from the USB
interface when the DK board is powered by a battery.
2.2 Default jumper settings on the DK board
As shown in Fig 2, the power, JTAG/SWD, UART, and I2C enable jumpers are connected
by default. Table 2 and Table 5 show the jumpers’ functions and correct connection.

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Fig 2. Board jumper default settings
Table 2. QN9080-001-M17 DK board’s default jumper settings
QN9080-001-M17’s on-board target.
QN9080-001-M17’s power (3 V).
When the DK board is powered by a
battery, leave it open.
Internal NTAG powered on.
When the module board is powered from
the main board.
2.3 LPC4322 debugger
The LPC4322 debugger supports both the CMSIS-DAP (default) and the J-Link interface.
It provides both the SWD/JTAG and UART interfaces. See section 4.4 in document
UM11097 on how to change the debug interface to J-Link and the other way round. You
may download or update the firmware to the QN9080-001-M17 device using UART or
JTAG/SWD interfaces. There is a debugger connector to program and debug an
off-board target (shown in Fig 3).

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Fig 3. Debugger connector
2.4 QN9080-001-M17 module
The QN9080-001-M17 module integrates the BLE radio, controller, protocol stack, BLE
antenna, NTAG, clocks, and profile software on a single chip, which provides a flexible
and easy usage of the BLE SoC solution. It includes a high-performance MCU (32-bit
Arm® Cortex®-M4F), on-chip memory, and peripherals for users to develop a truly
single-chip wireless MCU solution.
Fig 4. Module board details
Table 3. QN9080-001-M17 module board’s mark information list
Jumper used to select the power NTAG inside.
Jumper used to select the power for QN9080-001-M17.
Connector used to connect the NTAG antenna.
Table 4. QN9080-001-M17 DK module’s default jumper settings
The NTAG inside shares the same power
supply with the QN9080 inside.
QN9080-001-M17 is powered by an
on-board power supply.

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The QN9080-001-M17 module is shown in Fig 5.
Fig 5. QN9080-001-M17 module board
Fig 6. NTAG antenna board
2.5 GPIO and Arduino interfaces
On the QN9080-001-M17 DK board, the J4, J5, J6, and J7 connectors all provide GPIO
connection outputs. The board is also compatible with the Arduino board interface. The
interface schematic is shown in Fig 7.
Fig 7. QN9080-001-M17 DK board GPIO and Arduino interface

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2.6 QN9080-001-M17 reset button
The reset button provides a hardware reset to the QN9080-001-M17 device, as shown in
Fig 8.
Fig 8. Reset button
2.7 ISP mode jumper
JP15 is the ISP mode jumper used to set the QN9080-001-M17 mode. When the jumper
is shorted, the PB02 chip mode pin is connected to the GND and this function is enabled.
When the jumper is open, the ISP mode function is disabled, as shown in Fig 9.
Fig 9. Chip mode jumper
2.8 SWD/JTAG interface
The board provides a SWD/JTAG interface to be used by an external debugger, as
shown in Fig 10.
Fig 10. Debugger interface

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2.9 Buttons
As shown in Fig 11, the DK board offers three buttons. When using the SW1 and SW2
buttons, the GPIO must be configured as the input. The logic LOW input is applied to the
GPIO when a button is pressed.
Fig 11. Buttons
The SW3 button is used to reset the QN9080-001-M17 chip. Press the button to reset the
QN9080-001-M17.
2.10 LED
The board offers a 3-color RGB LED. The connections are shown in Fig 12. The LED
lights up when the corresponding GPIO outputs switch to the logic high level. The GPIO
control pins are QN_PA13, QN_PA25, and QN_PA31. The GPIO QN_PA13 can work in
the PWM out mode. Therefore, the brightness of the LED can change with the PWM
pulse width.
Fig 12. LED