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PN5180 Evaluation board quick start guide
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Application note Rev. 1.3 — 2 February 2018
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1. External power supply: V ≥ 7.5V
Figure 10. PNEV5180B 2.0 jumper settings for external power supply
3 Driver installation
The PNEV5180B 2.0 evaluation board is delivered with a graphical user interface
application (GUI), the NFC Cockpit (refer to [6]). The NFC Cockpit can be used to
explore the functionality of the PN5180 and perform RF and antenna design related
tests. It allows a direct register access as well as EEPROM read and write access, and it
allows to test and calibrate the DPC. It offers the major relevant functions to support the
antenna tuning in customer designs and optimize the PN5180 settings. The NFC Cockpit
therefore can be used to fully configure & test the PN5180.
3.1 PNEV5180B PC driver
The PNEV5180B requires a PC driver to be installed. The NFC Cockpit package contains
two different PC drivers: The older version of the NFC Cockpit (2.3 or lower) required
an ABEND driver (using the ABEND interface). This interface has been replaced with a
VCOM interface, so the ABEND driver is not required anymore.
The VCOM driver is automatically installed with the installation of the NFC
Cockpit itself. However, it can also be installed by simply starting the c:\nxp
\NxpNfcCockpit_v<VERSION>\VCOM\install_vcom.bat
After installation of the VCOM driver, the connected PNEV5180B must show up like
shown in Fig 11, if the latest LPC FW is installed on the PNEV5180B.
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