nRF52DK development kit for Bluetooth Low Energy

nRF52 DKDevelopment kit

Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth mesh development kit for the nRF52810 and nRF52832 SoCs

The nRF52 DK is a versatile single board development kit for Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, ANT and 2.4 GHz proprietary development 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]

Develop

with the nRF52810 and nRF52832 SoCs

nRF52810 SoC

Bluetooth 5.2 SoC supporting Bluetooth Low Energy

64 MHz Cortex-M4
192 KB Flash, 24 KB RAM
2.4 GHz transceiver
2 Mbps, 1 Mbps
Bluetooth Low Energy
+4 dBm TX power
128-bit AES
UART, SPI, TWI, PDM
PWM
12-bit ADC

nRF52832 SoC

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

64 MHz Cortex-M4 with FPU
512/256 KB Flash, 64/32 KB RAM
2.4 GHz transceiver
2 Mbps, 1 Mbps
Bluetooth Low Energy
Bluetooth mesh
+4 dBm TX power
128-bit AES
UART, SPI, TWI, PDM, I2S
PWM
12-bit ADC
NFC-A

Relevant SDKs

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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.

nRF Connect SDK

nRF Connect SDK is a common software development kit for cellular IoT and short-range wireless, on the nRF9160 SiP, the nRF5340 SoC and all nRF52 Series SoCs.

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.

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SoftDevices

Compatible with the nRF52 DK

SoftDevice S112

SoftDevice S112 is a memory-optimized Peripheral-only Bluetooth LE protocol stack for the 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 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

SoftDevice S212

SoftDevice S212 is an ANT protocol 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

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.