nRF52840 System on Chip

Multiprotocol Bluetooth 5.4 SoC supporting Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, Thread and Zigbee

The nRF52840 SoC is the most advanced member of the nRF52 Series. It meets the challenges of sophisticated applications that need protocol concurrency and a rich and varied set of peripherals and features.  It offers generous memory availability for both Flash and RAM, which are prerequisites for such demanding applications.

The nRF52840 is fully multiprotocol capable with full protocol concurrency. It has protocol support for Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth mesh, Thread, Zigbee, 802.15.4, ANT and 2.4 GHz proprietary stacks.

The nRF52840 is built around the 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M4 CPU with floating point unit running at 64 MHz. It has NFC-A Tag for use in simplified pairing and payment solutions. The ARM TrustZone® CryptoCell cryptographic unit is included on-chip and brings an extensive range of cryptographic options that execute highly efficiently independent of the CPU. It has numerous digital peripherals and interfaces such as high speed SPI and QSPI for interfacing to external flash and displays, PDM and I2S for digital microphones and audio, and a full speed USB device for data transfer and power supply for battery recharging. 

Exceptionally low energy consumption is achieved using a sophisticated on-chip adaptive power management system.

Key features
  • 64 MHz Cortex-M4 with FPU
  • 1 MB Flash, 256 KB RAM
  • 2.4 GHz Transceiver
  • 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, Long Range
  • Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh
  • ANT, 802.15.4, Thread, Zigbee
  • +8 dBm TX Power
  • 128-bit AES CCM, ARM CryptoCell
  • UART, SPI, TWI, PDM, I2S, QSPI
  • PWM
  • 12-bit ADC
  • NFC-A
  • USB 2.0

Development kit

For the nRF52840 SoC

nRF52840 DK

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

Videos

With the nRF52840 SoC

Bluetooth 5 - Long Range

Concurrent Thread and Bluetooth 5