Argon

Overview

The Argon is a powerful Wi-Fi enabled development board that can act as either a standalone Wi-Fi endpoint or Wi-Fi enabled gateway for Particle Mesh networks. It is based on the Nordic nRF52840 and has built-in battery charging circuitry so it’s easy to connect a Li-Po and deploy your local network in minutes.

The Argon is great for connecting existing projects to the Particle Device Cloud or as a gateway to connect an entire group of local endpoints.

Features

• Espressif ESP32-D0WD 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi coprocessor
  • On-board 4MB flash for ESP32
  • 802.11 b/g/n support
  • 802.11 n (2.4 GHz), up to 150 Mbps
• Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 SoC
  • ARM Cortex-M4F 32-bit processor @ 64MHz
  • 1MB flash, 256KB RAM
  • IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250 Kbps
  • Bluetooth 5: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 Kbps, 125 Kbps
  • Supports DSP instructions, HW accelerated Floating Point Unit (FPU) calculations
  • ARM TrustZone CryptoCell-310 Cryptographic and security module
  • Up to +8 dBm TX power (down to -20 dBm in 4 dB steps)
  • NFC-A tag
• On-board additional 2MB SPI flash
• 20 mixed signal GPIO (6 x Analog, 8 x PWM), UART, I2C, SPI
• Micro USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps)
• Integrated Li-Po charging and battery connector
• JTAG (SWD) Connector
• RGB status LED
• Reset and Mode buttons
• On-board PCB antenna
• u.FL connector for external antenna
• Meets the Adafruit Feather specification in dimensions and pinout
• FCC, CE and IC certified
• RoHS compliant (lead-free)

Structure of this repository:

• /eagle
  • Contains the schematic and PCB files in the Eagle file format
• /gerbers
  • Contains the manufacturing gerber files for the board
• /datasheets
  • Contains the relevant datasheets of the components used on the Argon
• /pdfs
  • Contains schematic files in PDF

Hardware datasheet

The complete datasheet for the Argon is available here.