Bluetooth Mesh

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Mesh

If you are developing a Bluetooth Mesh product it is wise to evaluate what the #1 supplier of Bluetooth Low Energy System-on-Chips (SoCs) offers, as Bluetooth Mesh is built on top of Bluetooth LE.

We offer a broad portfolio of SoCs supporting Bluetooth Mesh. The SoCs have different memory sizes and capabilities, enabling you to select the perfect match for your product's requirements. Complementing our SoCs, we offer development hardware, software, and tools to make it easy for you to build your product, while also reducing time-to-market. We offer a qualified Bluetooth Mesh stack with all mandatory and selected optional features supported, in addition to a wide range of application models and samples for lighting and sensor networks. Use this as a foundation to build on top of. We also offer a mobile app, nRF Mesh, available as free source code for both iOS and Android. This is a great starting point for your own app. The app can be used to provision, configure, and control Mesh nodes in evaluation and test.

We offer our excellent technical support to anyone developing a Bluetooth Mesh product with one of our SoCs. We guide you through the whole product development process.

Explore our Bluetooth Mesh solutions below!

nRF53 Series

nRF5340 SoC

Dual-core Bluetooth 5.4 SoC supporting Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, Thread and Zigbee

128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 CPU with
1 MB Flash + 512 KB RAM
64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 CPU with
256 KB Flash + 64 KB RAM
Bluetooth Low Energy
Bluetooth Direction Finding
Bluetooth mesh
Thread, Zigbee
ANT
NFC
Advanced security
USB, QSPI, HS-SPI
105 °C extended operating temperature
1.7-5.5 V supply voltage range

Bluetooth Mesh SoCs comparison


 nRF5340   nRF52840
nRF52833 nRF52832
 CPU  128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33
 +
 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33
 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 with FPU  64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 with FPU  64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 with FPU
Flash  1 MB
 +
 256 KB
 1 MB  512 KB  512/256 KB
 RAM  512 KB
 +
 64 KB
 256 KB  128 KB  64/32 KB
 Arm TrustZone  Yes  Yes    
 Arm CryptoCell   312  310    
 Root-of-Trust  Yes  Yes    
 Secure key storage  Yes      
 High-Speed SPI  Yes  Yes  Yes
 TWI/SPI/UART  4xTWI/SPI/UART +TWI/SPI/UART  2xTWI/SPI, SPI, 2xUART  2xTWI/SPI, SPI, 2xUART  2xTWI/SPI, SPI, 2xUART
 QSPI  Yes  Yes    
 USB  Yes  Yes  Yes  
 PWM, PDM, I2S  Yes  Yes  Yes  Yes
 ADC, Comparator  Yes  Yes  Yes  Yes
 Operating temperature  -40 to 105 °C  -40 to 85 °C  -40 to 105 °C  -40 to 85 °C
 Supply voltage range  1.7 to 5.5 V  1.7 to 5.5 V  1.7 to 5.5 V  1.7 to 3.6 V
 Packages  7x7 mm aQFN94
 (48 GPIOs)
 4.4x4.0 mm WLCSP95
 (48 GPIOs)

 7x7 mm aQFN73
 (48 GPIOs)
 3.5x3.6 mm WLCSP94
 (48 GPIOs)
 7x7 mm aQFN73
 (42 GPIOs)
 5x5 mm QFN40
 (18 GPIOs)
 3.2x3.2 mm WLCSP
 (42 GPIOs)
 6x6 mm QFN48
 (32 GPIOs)
 3.0x3.2 mm WLCSP50
 (32 GPIOs)

Compatible PMIC and RF FEM options

Concurrent Bluetooth Mesh and Bluetooth LE

All Bluetooth Mesh SoCs can run both Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth Mesh concurrently. The radio time is time sliced and shared between the protocols. The scheduling is autonomous and connections are maintained. Leverage the interoperability of our Bluetooth LE stack and let a Bluetooth LE device, such as a smartphone, bridge into the Bluetooth Mesh network. The smartphone can then provision/commission in new nodes and interact with the mesh network.