nRF52 DK development kit for Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth 5, ANT, 2.4GHz and NFC, supporting the nRF52 Series

nRF52 DKDevelopment Kit

Bluetooth 5 and Bluetooth mesh Development Kit for nRF52810 and nRF52832 SoCs

The nRF52 DK is a versatile single board development kit for Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, ANT and 2.4 GHz proprietary applications on the nRF52810 and nRF52832 SoCs.

It facilitates development exploiting all features of the nRF52810 and the nRF52832 SoCs. It includes an NFC antenna that quickly enables utilization of the NFC-A tag peripheral on the nRF52832. All GPIOs are available via edge connectors and headers, and 4 buttons and 4 LEDs simplify output and input from and to the SoC.

It is Arduino Uno Revision 3 compatible, making it possible to mount 3rd-party shields with ease. It comes with an on-board SEGGER J-Link debugger allowing programming and debugging both the on-board SoC and external
SoCs through the debug out header. It also interfaces directly with the Power Profiler Kit.

It can be powered by USB, but also includes a CR2032 battery holder, enabling in-field testing of prototypes.

SEGGER Embedded Studio, Keil, GCC and IAR IDEs and toolchains are supported, see IDEs and Toolchains for more information.

The box includes an nRF52 DK board, an NFC antenna and a CR2032 battery. Hardware layout and schematics are available.

Download nRF52 DK product brief [PDF]

nRF52 Series development kits

Overview

nRF52 DK

The nRF52 DK is a Bluetooth 5 and Bluetooth mesh development kit for the nRF52810 and nRF52832 SoCs.

nRF52840 DK

The nRF52840 DK is a Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Zigbee development kit for the nRF52811 and nRF52840 SoCs.

nRF52840 Dongle

The nRF52840 Dongle is complementary hardware to the nRF Connect for Desktop. It supports Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Zigbee.

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Develop

with the nRF52810 and nRF52832 SoCs

nRF52810 SoC

Baseline nRF52 Series multiprotocol SoC optimized for wide market appeal and cost-constrained applications.

64 MHz Cortex-M4
192 KB Flash, 24 KB RAM
2.4 GHz Transceiver
2 Mbps, 1 Mbps
Bluetooth 5
ANT
+4 dBm TX Power
128-bit AES CCM
UART, SPI, TWI, PDM
PWM

12-bit ADC

nRF52832 SoC

General-purpose nRF52 Series multiprotocol SoC with high performance and broad peripheral set.

64 MHz Cortex-M4F
512/256 KB Flash, 64/32 KB RAM
2.4 GHz Transceiver
2 Mbps, 1 Mbps
Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth mesh
ANT
+4 dBm TX Power
128-bit AES CCM
UART, SPI, TWI, PDM, I2S
PWM
12-bit ADC

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Relevant SDKs

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nRF5 SDK

The Bluetooth 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.

SoftDevices

Compatible with the nRF52 DK

S112: Bluetooth 5

The S112 is a small Bluetooth 5 protocol stack for the nRF52810, nRF52811 and nRF52832 SoCs.

Bluetooth 5.1 qualified
2 Mbps, 1 Mbps
CSA #2
4 concurrent links as a Peripheral with Broadcaster
Configurable number of connections and properties
LE Secure Connections
Privacy 1.2
Configurable ATT Table
Configurable ATT MTU
Custom UUID support
Support for concurrent multiprotocol with Bluetooth mesh and 2.4 GHz proprietary protocols

S132: Bluetooth 5

The S132 is a high performance Bluetooth 5 protocol stack for the nRF52810 and nRF52832 SoCs.

Bluetooth 5.1 qualified
2 Mbps, 1 Mbps
Advertising Extensions & CSA #2
20 concurrent Central/Peripheral links with Observer & Broadcaster
Configurable number of connections and properties
LE Secure Connections
Privacy 1.2
Configurable ATT Table
Configurable ATT MTU
Custom UUID support
Support for concurrent multiprotocol with Bluetooth mesh and 2.4 GHz proprietary protocols
LE Data Packet Length Extension
L2CAP connection-oriented channels

S212: ANT

The S212 is a versatile ANT stack for the nRF52810 and nRF52832 SoCs. It supports all ANT features and offers a variety of network topologies, including peer-to-peer, star and tree.

15 individual configurable ANT channels
Broadcast, acknowledged, burst transfer
Device search, pairing and proximity
Advanced burst transfer mode

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Development tools

Test and verify

nRF Connect for Desktop

nRF Connect for Desktop is a cross-platform framework for development applications. It contains applications for testing Bluetooth Low Energy and LTE links, power optimization, programming and more.

nRF Connect for Mobile

nRF Connect for Mobile is a powerful generic mobile tool that allows you to scan and explore your Bluetooth Low Energy devices and communicate with them. Also supports DFU and Eddystone.