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LinkIt 7697 HDK v1.0 User's Guide
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Release date:

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1.0

5 May 2017

Initial release

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Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Overview ............................................................................................................................................ 5
Get Started with the HDK ..................................................................................................................... 6
2.1.
2.2.
2.3.

Board configuration ........................................................................................................................... 6
Installing the driver for Windows ...................................................................................................... 7
Updating the flash.............................................................................................................................. 8

Hardware Features ..............................................................................................................................10
Schematics ..........................................................................................................................................11
Pin-Out Diagram..................................................................................................................................13

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Lists of Tables and Figures
Table 1. Comparison between Flash tool and mt76x7-uploader ........................................................................... 8
Figure 1. LinkIt 7697 HDK v1.0 ............................................................................................................................... 5
Figure 2. Front view of the HDK (created in Fritzing) ............................................................................................. 6
Figure 3. Communication between PC and the HDK .............................................................................................. 7
Figure 4. The COM port allocation for LinkIt 7697 HDK ......................................................................................... 8

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Introduction
Overview
MediaTek LinkIt™ 7697 hardware development kit (HDK) is part of LinkIt development platform for RTOS and is
based on a highly integrated MediaTek MT7697 SOC with an application processor, a low power 1x1 11n singleband Wi-Fi subsystem, a Bluetooth Low Energy subsystem and a Power Management Unit. The application
processor subsystem contains ARM Cortex-M4 with floating point unit microprocessor.
The HDK supports peripherals, including UART, I2C, SPI, I2S, PWM, IrDA and auxiliary ADC. It also includes an
embedded SRAM/ROM. The Wi-Fi subsystem contains 802.11b/g/n radio, baseband and MAC that are designed to
meet both the low power and high throughput application requirements. It runs on a 32-bit RISC CPU that could
fully offload the application processor. The Bluetooth Low Energy subsystem contains the Bluetooth radio,
baseband and link controller and uses the same 32-bit RISC CPU for the Bluetooth protocols. The LinkIt 7697 HDK is
shown in Figure 1.
The main features of this HDK are:

•

Breadboard compatible form factor. Developers can use breadboards to connect peripherals with this
HDK conveniently to build their applications.

•

Auxiliary LED and buttons to reset the board and to program a user-defined functionality.

•

An on-board USB-to-UART conversion chip to access logs and conveniently update the firmware.

•

Serial Wire Debug (SWD) interface.

•

mt76x7-uploader tool, enables the HDK to switch between flash normal mode and recovery mode
automatically without user intervention.

•

Developers can program the board with the native LinkIt SDK using GCC, IAR embedded workbench, or
Keil µVision IDE. Development with Arduino IDE is also supported.

Figure 1. LinkIt 7697 HDK v1.0

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Get Started with the HDK
This section covers the HDK configuration, driver installation and the update flow for the flash storage.

2.1.

Board configuration

The interfaces and modules are shown in Figure 2.
Reset

USB pin
header

UART RX LED
UART TX LED
CP2102N

wrtnode7 module

Micro-USB
connector

Power LED
USR LED
User configurable
button

Figure 2. Front view of the HDK (created in Fritzing)
7

•

wrtnode Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE module: It equips the MT7697 Wi-Fi / BLE SOC and is ready to use with
an on-board antenna and an I-PEX connector. Moreover, a 4MB flash is also included in this module.

•

CP2102N: A USB-to-UART bridge chipset made by Silicon Labs. It’s used during flash update process with
the mt76x7-uploader tool and to switch between the flash normal mode and the flash recovery mode,
automatically.

•

Micro-USB connector: Serves as a 5V power source to the HDK. Connect the HDK to a computer that has
the CP2102N driver installed, to get UART messages (from UART0 on MT7697) using a terminal program.

•

RX / TX LEDs: LEDs used to indicate the transmission states of the UART port (UART0).

•

PWR LED: This LED will light on while connecting to a power source.

•

USR LED: An LED used for user-defined behavior. It’s controlled by P7 pin (GPIO36).

•

RST button: Resets the chipset and is connected to the RST pin. While it’s pressed, it will be linked to the
GND.

•

USR button: A button used for user-defined behavior. It’s connected to P6 pin (GPIO37). When it’s
pressed, it will be linked to the 3V3 source.

•

USB pin header: It provides the same functionality as the micro-USB connector but in the form of pin
headers.

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MT7697 bootstrap pins: All MT7697 bootstrap pins except GPIO37 (used for Flash Access Mode control)
are hidden from this HDK and not accessible through breakout headers. The Flash Access Mode has to two

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configurations; normal mode and recovery mode. To set the HDK to Flash Recovery mode, use the USR
button to pull up GPIO37. For more details, see section 2.3, “Updating the flash”. Note, that since GPIO37
is in the breakout header, if there is an external component connected to P6 (where GPIO37 is), the
voltage level of that component might affect the boot-up sequence. Ensure P6 is clear or pulled low when
the system powers on.

•

2.2.

If there is no 5V power source, this HDK can also work with 3.3V by simply connecting the 3V3 pin to a
3.3V power source.

Installing the driver for Windows

LinkIt 7697 HDK connects to your computer through the COM port interface. The COM port interface is provided
by the on-board CP2102N USB-to-UART bridge chipset, which then connects to the UART0 port of the MT7697
chipset. The UART0 port can be used to program the flash memory attached to the MT7697 chipset. It can also be
used as a communication channel for your application through terminal emulator program of your choice.
The block diagram for the communication is shown in
Figure 3:

PC

Arduino IDE

LinkIt 7697 HDK

CP2102N
Driver

Micro-USB
Connector

MT7697 SOC
CP2102N

UART0

Flash Memory

Figure 3. Communication between PC and the HDK
Since the board relies on CP2102N to provide the COM port functionality, you'll need to install a driver so that your
computer can recognize it. And because the board uses the default USB VID and PID of the CP2102N, it’s required
to install the official CP2102N driver from the vendor's website.
After choosing the Download VCP option according to your operating system version and finishing the driver
installation, use a micro-USB cable to connect the board to your computer. The onboard PWR LED should light up.
Follow the steps below to confirm the driver is properly installed:

•

Open Device Manager from the control panel.

•

In the Ports (COM & LPT) section, an item named Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COMnnn)
should appear. The port number can be different on each computer. This is the COM port you'll be using
to program and interact with the LinkIt 7697 HDK (see Figure 4).

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Figure 4. The COM port allocation for LinkIt 7697 HDK

2.3.

Updating the flash

There are two tools provided for programming the flash storage:
1) The Flash tool inside the LinkIt SDK. It’s a Windows execution program providing the functionality to
program and format the flash storage, see section 2.2.4.1, “Using the Flash Tool” of the LinkIt for RTOS
development platform get started guide, for more details about using the Flash tool.
2) The mt76x7-uploader on MediaTek Labs’ GitHub page. It’s a Python script providing cross-platform
implementation for the flash storage. For its usage guide, refer to the readme on the project page.
Select the tool based on your development requirements (see Table 1).
Table 1. Comparison between Flash tool and mt76x7-uploader
Supported OS

Recovery mode
switching

Flash contents
read-back

Format the
flash storage

Where to get

Flash Tool

Windows

Manual

Supported

Supported

LinkIt SDK
package

mt76x7-uploader

Windows,
Linux, macOS

Automatic

N/A

N/A

MediaTek Labs’
GitHub page

One thing to be noted is that when using the Flash tool, switch the board into the Flash Recovery mode for the tool
to operate properly.
To switch the board into the Flash recovery mode:
1) Connect the board to a power source.
2) Press and hold the USR button.

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3) Click (press and release) the RST button.
4) Wait for 1 second and then release the USR button.
After step 4, the board will go into the Flash Recovery mode and you can then use the Flash tool or the QA tool
with it.
If you choose the mt76x7-uploader to update the flash, the tool itself will handle the flash mode switch
automatically without user intervention.

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Hardware Features
This section lists the LinkIt 7697 HDK features. For more detailed specification of MT7697, please refer to the
MT7697 datasheet.

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192MHz ARM Cortex-M4 CPU with FPU support.

•

352KB RAM.

•

4MB Flash storage.

•

802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz Wi-Fi.

•

Bluetooth Low Energy support.

•

On-board chip antenna.

•

I-PEX connector provided.

•

CP2102N USB-to-UART convertor.

•

Passed FCC / CE certifications.

•

Support two operational power voltages: 5V and 3.3V.

•

Pin headers for 5V / 3.3V / GND / Reset / GPIO (18) / PWM (18) / UART (2 sets) / IR (1 set) / EINT (4) / I2S
(1 set) / I2C (1 set) / SPI (1 set) / ADC (4) and USB UART (1 set).

•

Two buttons are provided. The RST button (connected to the RST pin) and the USR button (connected to
the P6/GPIO37).

•

Four LEDs are provided. One is for the power indicator and one is for the user-defined behavior
(controlled by P7/GPIO36). The other two are used for indicating the TX / RX status of UART0.

•

Breadboard compatible form factor for the pin pitch (2.54mm).

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Schematics
1

2

3

4

5

6

A

A

3V3
5V
USB_DUSB_D+
GND

UART_TX

GPIO28
GPIO32
GPIO29
GPIO30
GPIO31
GPIO57
GPIO58

R2

GPIO59
GPIO60
3V3

GND

DNP

0R

J4

1

2

3V3

3V3

2

1

1k

C

C5

10uF

C8

R24

4.7k

R25

4.7k

USER

button 311020045

3V3

B0

A1

A0

3

40
39
38
37
36
35
34
33
32
31
30
29
28
27
26

GPIO33
GPIO34
SYS_RST_N
GPIO36
GPIO37

B

GPIO39
GPIO57
GPIO58
GPIO59
GPIO60
3V3

10pF

C9

10pF

C10

C

R23

Q1
GPIO37

1

GPIO36

R8

2

B1

47k

Seeed Studio

2N7002

K3

100k

4

OrangeORANGE

R7

100nF

GPIO29

SYS_RST_N

UART_RX

GPIO27

GND
GPIO35
GPIO33
GPIO34
SYS_RST_N
GPIO36
GPIO37
GND
GPIO38
GPIO39
GPIO57
GPIO58
GPIO59
GPIO60
3V3

GPIO28

GND

GPIO36

GND
GPIO00
GPIO01
GPIO02
GPIO03
GPIO04
GPIO05
GPIO06
GPIO07
GPIO24
GPIO25
GPIO26
RTC_3V3
GND
3V3

PMU_EN_WF

GPIO33

GPIO1

U2

GPIO30

GPIO34

GPIO37

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

GPIO27

GPIO39

GPIO0

GPIO31

GPIO0

3V3

GND
PMU_EN_RTC
GPIO32
GPIO31
GPIO27
GPIO30
GPIO28
GPIO29
PMU_EN_WF
GND

UART_TX

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

UART_RX

B

J2

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

GPIO32

J1
GND

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A

2

3

4

5

6

A

V_USB

5V

1k

R29

B

0R

button 311020045

4
2

B1

B0

A1

A0

3
1

SYS_RST

PWR

3

R10

R1

AGND

GPIO1
SYS_RST_N

PWR

MODE

3V3

GREEN

PGND

1

WLB1608-300T15

10uF

EN

4

C26

FB

L1

0.33uH
100K_1%

AVIN

2 L4

10uF

6

SW

22K_1% R28

10uF

5

ETA3410

PVIN

9

C1

10uF

7

U6

C19

8

C21

C27

10uF

1A

D4 DF2S6.8FS

V_USB

PAD

F1

B

22R

3
8
7

VCC

5
6

C4

2*2

U1

CP2102N

RESET
DD+
VBUS
VREGIN
VIO
VDD
GND

TXD
RXD
RTS
CTS
DTR
DSR
DCD
RI/CLK

TXLED/IO0
RXLED/IO1
RS485/IO2
WAKEUP/IO3
SUSPEND
SUSPEND

21
20
19
18
23
22
24
1
14
13
12
11
15
17

R17

100R

R18

100R

UART_RX
UART_TX

R9 10k

10k
R14

USB_D-

22R

9
4

USB_D+

R15

100nF

D3 DF2S6.8FS

C

D1 DF2S6.8FS

GND
GND
GND
GND

1
2
3
4
P6

10uF
100nF

VCC
DM
DP
ID
GND

C2
C3

5
P1
P3
P4*2

D2 DF2S6.8FS

V_USB
J3

3V3

R26

VCC

RTS
DTR

Q4

VCC

4.7k R6
SYS_RST_N

R13
RED

RTS

R12
GREEN

GPIO37

1k

RX

R4

10k

Q2
S9013W

Q3
S9013W

C6 1uF

DTR
R3

10k

TX

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Pin-Out Diagram

LinkIt 7697
TM

GND
POWER
CONTROL
DIGITAL
ANALOG
PWM
SERIAL

wrtnode7 Module

INTERRUPT
DEBUG

PWM34

IR_TX

GPIO33

2
2

GPIO34

)0& 2

IR_RX

2

GPIO39

PWM35

GND

8 456

RST
3V3

8

5V



&

USB_D-

)0& &

USB_D+
GND

UART1_RX

PWM19

GPIO27

I2C1_CLK

PWM28

GPIO28

I2C1_DATA

PWM29

GPIO32

SPI_CS0

PWM33

I2S_BCLK

GPIO29

SPI_MOSI

PWM30

I2S_MCLK

GPIO30

SPI_MISO

PWM31

I2S_FS

GPIO31

SPI_SCK

PWM32

I2S_TX/RX

GPIO57

PWM36

ADC_IN0

GPIO58

PWM37

ADC_IN1

GPIO59

PWM38

ADC_IN2

SWD_DIO

GPIO60

PWM39

ADC_IN3

SWD_CLK

USR BTN

EINT20

USR LED

GND
ADC input voltage range: 0~2.5V

Reset Button

CP2102N

754

754

294

4:

456

6:

RST BTN

8

PWM22

2

EINT22

GPIO0

PWM20

2

PWM0

UART1_TX

GPIO36

2

EINT0

GPIO37

2

GPIO3

46%A294

GPIO2

UART0_TX

2

UART0_RX

PWM24

2

PWM23
EINT2

3V3

)0& 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

)0&

GPIO37 is the bootstrap pin for Recovery/Normal mode

GND

User Button

Micro USB

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Module

wrtnode7 by WRTnode

MCU

ARM Cortex-M4 with FPU 192Mhz

RAM

352 KB

Flash

4 MB

Wi-Fi

802.11 b/g/n (2.4G)

Bluetooth

4.2 LE

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