nRF52840 DKDevelopment kit

Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, Thread and Zigbee development kit for the nRF52840 SoC

The nRF52840 DK is a versatile single board development kit for Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, Thread, Zigbee, 802.15.4, ANT and 2.4 GHz proprietary applications on the nRF52840 SoC. It also supports development on the nRF52811 SoC.

It facilitates development exploiting all features of the nRF52840 SoC. It includes an NFC antenna that quickly enables utilization of the NFC-A tag peripheral. All GPIOs are available via edge connectors and headers, and 4 buttons and 4 LEDs simplify input and output to and from the SoC. An on-board external memory is connected to the QSPI peripheral in the nRF52840 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 targets through the debug out header. It also interfaces directly with the Power Profiler Kit.

The DK is typically powered with USB, but can be powered by a wide range of sources, within the supply range of 1.7 to 5.0 V. In addition to USB, it can be powered with external source, but also includes a CR2032 battery holder and a Li-Po battery connector, for in-field testing. Current consumption can be measured by using the dedicated current measurement pins.

Hardware layout and schematics for the nRF52840 DK are available under Downloads.

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Key features

Supports Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, Thread and Zigbee

User-programmable LEDs(4) and buttons(4)

2.4 GHz and NFC antennas

SWF RF connector for direct RF measurements

On-board SEGGER J-Link debugger/programmer

Arduino Uno Rev3 form factor

Pins for measuring power consumption

1.7-5.0 V supply from USB, external, Li-Po battery or CR2032 coin cell battery

Documentation
Downloads

Interface MCU firmware

Selected version

170724 J-LINK

J-Link OB-SAM3U128-V2-NordicSemi 170724.bin

Changelog:

170724 J-LINK

nRF5x-OB-JLink-IF

nRF52840-DK HW files

nRF52840-DK-HW

Selected version

2.0.1

nRF52840 Development Kit - Hardware files 2_0_1.zip

Changelog:

2.0.1

Changelog: v2.0.1: Silkscreen update, added information leaflet

2.0.0

Changelog: v2.0.0

  • Updated battery protection circuit
  • Changed battery holder
  • Changed DCDC inductor

For nRF52840 USB:

  • Added series resistor on VBUS/VDDH
  • Removed USB 0R series resistors

For both nRF52840 and JLINK USB:

  • Changed USB shield connection

1.1.1

Changelog: v1.1.1: Adding cardboard box to kit packaging

1.1.0

Changelog v1.1.0: New nRF52840-QIAA revision

1.0.0


nRF52840 Preview DK Hardware Files

0.9.0


nRF52840 Preview DK Hardware Files

Heart rate monitor

Demo firmware

Selected version

1.0.0

nRF52840 DK HRM_demo.zip

Changelog:

1.0.0