NINA-W1 series - User Manual 
   
Contents 
Document Information ................................................................................................................................ 2 
Contents .......................................................................................................................................................... 3 
  System description ............................................................................................................................... 5 
1.1  Overview ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 
1.2  CPU................................................................................................................................................................. 6 
1.3  Operating modes ......................................................................................................................................... 6 
1.3.1  Power modes ....................................................................................................................................... 6 
1.4  Supply interfaces ........................................................................................................................................ 6 
1.4.1  Module supply design (VCC) ............................................................................................................. 6 
1.4.2  Digital I/O interfaces reference voltage (VCC_IO) ........................................................................ 6 
1.4.3  VCC application circuits .................................................................................................................... 6 
1.5  System function interfaces ...................................................................................................................... 7 
1.5.1  Boot strapping pins ............................................................................................................................ 7 
1.6  Data interfaces ............................................................................................................................................ 7 
1.6.1  Universal asynchronous serial interface (UART) ......................................................................... 7 
1.6.2  Ethernet (RMII+SMI) .......................................................................................................................... 8 
1.7  W1x6 integrated antennas ...................................................................................................................... 10 
1.8  Reserved pins (RSVD) .............................................................................................................................. 10 
1.9  GND pins ..................................................................................................................................................... 10 
  Software .................................................................................................................................................. 11 
2.1  NINA-W13 and NINA-W15 u-connectXpress software ....................................................................... 11 
2.2  SDK for open-CPU modules .....................................................................................................................12 
2.3  Flashing stand-alone modules with s-center .......................................................................................12 
2.4  Updating u-connectXpress software with s-center .......................................................................... 13 
2.5  Developing and flashing NINA-W10 open-CPU software .................................................................. 14 
2.5.1  Setup the ESP-IDF v3 toolchain..................................................................................................... 14 
2.5.2  Get ESP-IDF v3 .................................................................................................................................. 14 
2.5.3  Setup path to ESP-IDF ..................................................................................................................... 16 
2.5.4  Building and flashing ESP-IDF v3 .................................................................................................. 16 
2.5.5  Using ESP-IDF v4 .............................................................................................................................. 19 
2.5.6  Automatic bootloader on NINA-W10 EVK .................................................................................... 19 
2.6  Arduino support for NINA-W10 .............................................................................................................. 19 
2.6.1  Downloading the Arduino IDE ......................................................................................................... 20 
2.6.2  Downloading from the GIT repository ........................................................................................... 20 
2.6.3  Downloading the toolchain ..............................................................................................................21 
2.6.4  Output power configuration ........................................................................................................... 24 
2.6.5  NINA-W10 series ............................................................................................................................... 24 
2.6.6  NINA-W13/W15 series ...................................................................................................................... 26 
  Design-in ................................................................................................................................................. 27 
3.1  Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 27 
3.2  Supply interfaces ...................................................................................................................................... 27