nRF5340 Development Kit

Nordic Semiconductor's nRF5340-DK combines a high-performance application processor with a fully-programmable, ultra-low-power network processor. This is a development kit for the nRF5340 which is a dual-processor SoC with Bluetooth^® 5.2, Bluetooth mesh, Thread, and Zigbee® wireless protocol support. This affordable kit makes all the features of the nRF5340 available to the developer on a single board.

The 128 MHz Arm^® Cortex^®-M33 application processor has 1 MB Flash and 256 KB of RAM, while the 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 network processor has 256 KB Flash and 64 KB RAM. The SoC has root-of-trust and trusted execution features, supports an operating temperature up to 105°C, and has advanced digital interfaces. It is an ideal SoC for professional lighting, advanced wearables, and other complex IoT applications.

The nRF5340 SoC has comprehensive wireless protocol support. It supports Bluetooth Low Energy and is capable of all features in Bluetooth 5.2. All features of Bluetooth 5 are also supported, including long-range and advertising extensions. It also supports wireless mesh protocols like Bluetooth mesh, Thread, and Zigbee, and other wireless protocols like NFC, ANT, 802.15.4, and 2.4 GHz proprietary.

The nRF5340-DK includes an NFC antenna that quickly enables testing of nRF5340 SoC's NFC-A tag peripheral. A SEGGER J-Link debugger is on the board, enabling full-blown programming and debugging, of both the nR5340 SoC and external targets.

All analog and digital interfaces, and GPIOs are available via connectors. The DK is Arduino Uno Rev3 hardware compatible, meaning it can be easily interfaced with external device shields, including the Power Profiler Kit. Four buttons and four LEDs simplify input and output to and from the nRF5340 SoC.

The nRF-DK can be powered by an external source, USB, or alternatively it includes a CR2032 battery holder and a Li-Po battery connector, for in-field testing. Dedicated power measurement pins are available to monitor power consumption