Nordic nRF52

platform = nordicnrf52

The nRF52 Series are built for speed to carry out increasingly complex tasks in the shortest possible time and return to sleep, conserving precious battery power. They have a Cortex-M4F processor and are the most capable Bluetooth Smart SoCs on the market.

For more detailed information please visit vendor site.

Tutorials

Examples

Examples are listed from Nordic nRF52 development platform repository:

Debugging

PIO Unified Debugger - “1-click” solution for debugging with a zero configuration.

Supported debugging tools are listed in “Debug” column. For more detailed information, please scroll table by horizontal. You can switch between debugging Tools using debug_tool options.

On-Board tools

Boards listed below have on-board debugging tools and ARE READY for debugging! You do not need to use/buy external debugger.

ID

Name

Debug

MCU

Frequency

Flash

RAM

delta_dfbm_nq620

Delta DFBM-NQ620

CMSIS-DAP (on-board), Black Magic Probe, J-LINK, ST-LINK

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB

nrf52840_dk

Nordic nRF52840-DK

CMSIS-DAP (on-board), J-LINK (on-board), Black Magic Probe, ST-LINK

NRF52840

64MHz

1MB

256KB

nrf52_dk

Nordic nRF52-DK

CMSIS-DAP (on-board), J-LINK (on-board), Black Magic Probe, ST-LINK

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB

redbear_blenano2

RedBearLab BLE Nano 2

CMSIS-DAP (on-board), Black Magic Probe, J-LINK, ST-LINK

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB

redbear_blend2

RedBearLab Blend 2

CMSIS-DAP (on-board), Black Magic Probe, J-LINK, ST-LINK

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB

ublox_evk_nina_b1

u-blox EVK-NINA-B1

J-LINK (on-board), Black Magic Probe, ST-LINK

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB

External tools

Boards listed below are compatible with PIO Unified Debugger but depend on external debugging tools. See “Debug” column for compatible debugging tools.

ID

Name

Debug

MCU

Frequency

Flash

RAM

stct_nrf52_minidev

Taida Century nRF52 mini board

Black Magic Probe, J-LINK, ST-LINK

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB

Stable and upstream versions

You can switch between stable releases of Nordic nRF52 development platform and the latest upstream version using platform option in Project Configuration File platformio.ini as described below.

Stable

; Latest stable version
[env:latest_stable]
platform = nordicnrf52
board = ...

; Custom stable version
[env:custom_stable]
platform = nordicnrf52@x.y.z
board = ...

Upstream

[env:upstream_develop]
platform = https://github.com/platformio/platform-nordicnrf52.git
board = ...

Packages

Name

Description

framework-arduinonordicnrf5

Arduino Wiring-based Framework (Nordic NRF5 Core)

framework-mbed

mbed Framework

tool-nrfjprog

nRF5x command line tool

tool-openocd

OpenOCD

tool-sreccat

Merging tool

toolchain-gccarmnoneeabi

gcc-arm-embedded

Warning

Linux Users:

Windows Users:

Please check that you have a correctly installed USB driver from board manufacturer

Frameworks

Name

Description

Arduino

Arduino Wiring-based Framework allows writing cross-platform software to control devices attached to a wide range of Arduino boards to create all kinds of creative coding, interactive objects, spaces or physical experiences.

mbed

The mbed framework The mbed SDK has been designed to provide enough hardware abstraction to be intuitive and concise, yet powerful enough to build complex projects. It is built on the low-level ARM CMSIS APIs, allowing you to code down to the metal if needed. In addition to RTOS, USB and Networking libraries, a cookbook of hundreds of reusable peripheral and module libraries have been built on top of the SDK by the mbed Developer Community.

Boards

Note

Delta

ID

Name

Debug

MCU

Frequency

Flash

RAM

delta_dfbm_nq620

Delta DFBM-NQ620

Yes

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB

Nordic

ID

Name

Debug

MCU

Frequency

Flash

RAM

nrf52840_dk

Nordic nRF52840-DK

Yes

NRF52840

64MHz

1MB

256KB

nrf52_dk

Nordic nRF52-DK

Yes

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB

RedBearLab

ID

Name

Debug

MCU

Frequency

Flash

RAM

redbear_blenano2

RedBearLab BLE Nano 2

Yes

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB

redbear_blend2

RedBearLab Blend 2

Yes

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB

Taida Century

ID

Name

Debug

MCU

Frequency

Flash

RAM

stct_nrf52_minidev

Taida Century nRF52 mini board

Yes

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB

u-blox

ID

Name

Debug

MCU

Frequency

Flash

RAM

ublox_evk_nina_b1

u-blox EVK-NINA-B1

Yes

NRF52832

64MHz

512KB

64KB