Particle Xenon IoT Development Board

Xenon is a low-cost, network-enabled development board designed to function as an endpoint or a repeater within a Particle Mesh network.

Xenon is mesh-only and is designed to act as the endpoint of your IoT network. It is powered by the Nordic nRF52840 chip and comes with a built-in battery charging circuit. This means you can quickly set up your local network by connecting a Li-Po battery.

Xenon is ideal for connecting sensors, motors, pumps, valves, and data-related points. To get all this valuable data into the Device Cloud, pair it with an Argon or Boron gateway.

Pricing for Device Cloud on Particle Mesh is network-based. All Particle customers receive ten free micro networks using a Wi-Fi or Ethernet gateway. Alternatively, all customers get three months of free Device Cloud access for micro networks using a cellular gateway. A micro network is defined as a network with a total of ten devices and a single gateway.

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Features

• 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 Encryption and security module
• TX power up to +8 dBm (in 4 dB steps, down to -20 dBm)
• NFC-A tag
• Additional 4MB SPI flash on-board
• 20 mixed-signal GPIO (6 x Analog, 8 x PWM), UART, I2C, SPI
• Micro USB 2.0 full-speed (12 Mbps)
• Integrated Li-Po charge and battery connector
• JTAG (SWD) connector
• RGB status LED
• Reset and Mode buttons
• On-board PCB antenna
• U.FL connector for an external antenna
• FCC, CE, and IC certified
• RoHS compliant

Documents

• Schematic
• Datasheet
• Pin Layout
• Open Thread
• Device Cloud
• Github