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  • I wish to get some clarification on the use of a 5V power supply with the CC3200 Launchpad. What had grabbed my attention was a previous blog post by Alexander Rowsell "Eternal Power: Keeping the CC3200 Juiced".

     

    Here the video was showing the launchpad powered through J19. I am only just starting to get my head round all the documentation but nothing obvious came up in the MCU launchpad hardware user guide. In the guide (section 2.5) it only refers to the device being powered by USB or by 2xAA/AAA batteries. Other than J19 there is also P31 pin shown as 5V. If you power through either of these connectors do I need to do anything with J12 / J13 jumpers as those are related to USB power source.

     

    Are there any technical details / description of constraints on this use of these connectors to power the launchpad.

     

    Thanks and look forward to receiving some answers.

  • in reply to BigG

    BigG,

    you can get the schematics for the CC3200 Launchpad at this link to analyze the power circuitry:

    SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3200 LaunchPad Reference Design - CC3200-LAUNCHXL-RD - TI Tool Folder

     

    Anyway, if you look into the schematics of Launchpad Rev3p2, If the USB power is not available (VBUS_USB1 is N/A), J19/P3.1/VCC_MCU_5V can also be used as the power input of the U3 TPS79601 LDO which outputs the 3.3V supply for the CC3200. The J13 and J12 (or R62) jumper shall be kept connected to supply the CC3200.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Hi Leo, thanks I will take a look.

     

    Another small thing. What is the logic behind the pin numbering. I, without much thought, referred to 5V pin as being row 1 under P3 and therefore is P31. However reading in the document under section 2.4.8 Pin Connector Assignment and on the board itself each pin is referenced differently. Hence for example the pin aligned to row 2 under P1 is referred to as P58. Is there some other linkage to this reference numbering ([update[ just to clarify this is linked to SDK definitions). Just curious.

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  • in reply to Former Member

    Hi Leo, thanks I will take a look.

     

    Another small thing. What is the logic behind the pin numbering. I, without much thought, referred to 5V pin as being row 1 under P3 and therefore is P31. However reading in the document under section 2.4.8 Pin Connector Assignment and on the board itself each pin is referenced differently. Hence for example the pin aligned to row 2 under P1 is referred to as P58. Is there some other linkage to this reference numbering ([update[ just to clarify this is linked to SDK definitions). Just curious.

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