nRF5340 System-on-Chip

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

The nRF5340 is the world’s first wireless SoC with two Arm® Cortex®-M33 processors. The combination of two flexible processors, the advanced feature set, and an operating temperature up to 105 °C, makes it the ideal choice for LE Audio, professional lighting, advanced wearables, and other complex IoT applications.

The nRF5340 is an all-in-one SoC, including a superset of the most prominent nRF52® Series features. Features like Bluetooth® 5.4, high-speed SPI, QSPI, USB, up to 105 °C operating temperature, and more, are combined with more performance, memory and integration, while minimizing current consumption.

The application processor is optimized for performance and can be clocked at either 128 or 64 MHz, using voltage-frequency scaling. It has 1 MB Flash, 512 KB RAM, a floating-point unit (FPU), an 8 KB 2-way associative cache and DSP instruction capabilities. The network processor is clocked at 64 MHz and is optimized for low power and efficiency (101 CoreMark/mA). It has 256 KB Flash and 64 KB RAM.

The nRF5340 takes security to the next level. It offers trusted execution, root-of-trust and secure key storage security features. Arm TrustZone provides trusted execution by implementing a division between secure and non-secure Flash, RAM, peripherals and GPIOs. The state-of-the-art Arm CryptoCell-312 provides hardware-accelerated cryptography, and together with the key management unit (KMU) peripheral, root-of-trust and secure key storage are implemented. The nRF5340 is also PSA Level 2 certified, more details on security here.

The nRF5340 SoC supports an extensive range of wireless protocols. It supports Bluetooth Low Energy and is capable of all angle-of-arrival (AoA) and angle-of-departure (AoD) roles in Bluetooth Direction Finding. In addition, it supports LE Audio, high-throughput 2 Mbps, Advertising Extensions and Long Range. Mesh protocols like Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Zigbee can be run concurrently with Bluetooth LE, enabling smartphones to provision, commission, configure and control mesh nodes. NFC, ANT, 802.15.4 and 2.4 GHz proprietary protocols are also supported.

The nRF Connect SDK is the software development kit for the nRF5340 SoC, offering a complete solution that integrates the Zephyr RTOS, protocol stacks, application samples and hardware drivers.

The nRF5340 DK is the development kit for the nRF5340 SoC, and has everything needed for development on a single board.

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Key features
  • 128/64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 application processor with 1 MB Flash & 512 KB RAM
  • 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 network processor with 256 KB Flash & 64 KB RAM
  • Bluetooth Low Energy
  • Bluetooth Direction Finding
  • Matter
  • 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

Comparison of our Bluetooth LE SoCs

SoC nRF5340 nRF52840 nRF52833 nRF52832 nRF52820 nRF52811 nRF52810 nRF52805
Bluetooth  5.4 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.4
Thread  Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Matter  Yes Yes
Zigbee  Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bluetooth Mesh  Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Flash   1 MB + 256 KB 1 MB 512 KB 512/256 KB 256 KB 192 KB 192 KB 192 KB
RAM   512 KB + 64 KB 256 KB 128 KB 64/32 KB 32 KB 24 KB 24 KB 24 KB
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 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4
High-Speed SPI   Yes Yes Yes
QSPI   Yes Yes
USB   Yes Yes Yes Yes
PWM, PDM, I2S   Yes Yes Yes Yes PWM, PDM PWM, PDM
ADC, Comp  Yes Yes Yes Yes COMP ADC, COMP ADC, COMP ADC
Temp Range -40 to 105 °C -40 to 85 °C -40 to 105 °C -40 to 85 °C -40 to 105 °C -40 to 85 °C -40 to 85 °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 1.7 to 5.5 V 1.7 to 3.6 V 1.7 to 3.6 V 1.7 to 3.6 V
Packages   aQFN94

WLCSP95
aQFN73

WLCSP94
aQFN73

QFN40

WLCSP76
QFN48

WLCSP50
QFN40 QFN48

QFN32

WLCSP33
QFN48

QFN32

WLCSP33
WLCSP28
GPIOs   48 48 18-42 32 18 15-32 15-32 10

Development kit

Evaluate, prototype and develop with nRF5340

nRF5340 DK

The nRF5340 DK is the development kit for the nRF5340 SoC.

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