nRF52832 - Versatile Bluetooth 5.2 SoC

Versatile Bluetooth 5.2 SoC supporting Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh and NFC

The nRF52832 is a general-purpose multiprotocol SoC. It meets the challenges of a broad range of applications that need advanced Bluetooth® LE features, protocol concurrency and a rich and varied set of peripherals and features. In addition, it offers generous memory availability for both Flash and RAM.

The nRF52832 is multiprotocol capable with full protocol concurrency. It supports Bluetooth Low Energy, including the high-speed 2 Mbps feature. Bluetooth mesh can be run concurrently with Bluetooth LE, enabling smartphones to provision, commission, configure and control mesh nodes. NFC, ANT and 2.4 GHz proprietary protocols are also supported.

It is built around an Arm® Cortex™-M4 CPU with floating point unit running at 64 MHz. It has NFC-A Tag for use in simplified pairing and payment solutions. It has numerous digital peripherals and interfaces such as PDM and I2S for digital microphones and audio.

Exceptionally low energy consumption is achieved using a sophisticated on-chip adaptive power management system.

Download nRF52832 SoC product brief [PDF]

Download nRF52832 QFAx Reference Layout v1.1 [ZIP]

Download nRF52832 CIAA Reference Layout v1.0 [ZIP]

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Development kit

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nRF52 DK

The nRF52 DK is a Bluetooth LE and Bluetooth mesh development kit for the nRF52805, nRF52810 and nRF52832 SoCs.

Software development kits

nRF5 SDK

The Bluetooth LE and ANT software development kit

The nRF5 SDK is a high quality, thoroughly tested software development kit to accelerate your software development efforts for the nRF52 and nRF51 Series SoCs. It contains hundreds of useful firmware modules and examples to assist in building your application.

nRF5 SDK for Mesh

The nRF5 SDK for mesh is ideal for developing applications that use Bluetooth mesh networks . It is a richly featured SDK for building sophisticated solutions with Bluetooth mesh.

nRF5 SDK for HomeKit

The nRF5 SDK for HomeKit combined with the nRF52 Series wireless SoCs provide developers with a unique solution for HomeKit products that meets all requirements on size, power consumption and performance.

SoftDevice S112

SoftDevice S112 is a memory-optimized Peripheral-only Bluetooth LE protocol stack for the nRF52805, nRF52810, nRF52811, nRF52820 and nRF52832 SoCs.

Bluetooth 5.1 qualified
High-throughput 2 Mbps
CSA #2
LE Secure Connections
Privacy 1.2
Configurable ATT Table
Configurable ATT MTU
Custom UUID
Concurrent multiprotocol support

SoftDevice S113

SoftDevice S113 is a memory-optimized Peripheral-only Bluetooth LE protocol stack for the nRF52805, nRF52810, nRF52811, nRF52820, nRF52832, nRF52833 and nRF52840 SoCs.

Bluetooth 5.1 qualified
High-throughput 2 Mbps
CSA #2
LE Secure Connections
Privacy 1.2
Configurable ATT Table
Configurable ATT MTU
Custom UUID
LE Data Packet Length Extension
L2CAP connection-oriented channels
Concurrent multiprotocol support

SoftDevice S132

SoftDevice S132 is a high-performance Central and Peripheral Bluetooth LE protocol stack for the nRF52810 and nRF52832 SoCs.

Bluetooth 5.1 qualified
High-throughput 2 Mbps
Advertising Extensions
CSA #2
LE Secure Connections
Privacy 1.2
Configurable ATT Table
Configurable ATT MTU
Custom UUID
LE Data Packet Length Extension
L2CAP connection-oriented channels
Concurrent multiprotocol support

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Prototyping platform

Nordic Thingy:52

The Nordic Thingy:52 is an easy-to-use prototyping platform, designed to help building prototypes and demos, without the need to build hardware or even write firmware.