Data Breif nRF52840 (Nordic Semiconductor)

nRF52840 High-end multiprotocol Bluetooth 5 SoC Supporting: Bluetooth 5/Bluetooth mesh/Thread/802.15.4/ANT/2.4GHz
Ready for Bluetooth 5 and high grade IoT security
KEY FEATURES The nRF52840 is an advanced, highly flexible single chip solution Bluetooth 5 ready multi-protocol radio for today’s increasingly demanding ULP wireless applications for - 2Mbps connected devices on our person, connected living environments - Long range and the IoT at large. It is designed ready for the major feature advancements of Bluetooth® 5 and takes advantage of Bluetooth - Advertising extensions 5’s increased performance capabilities which include long range - Improved coexistence (CSA #2) and high throughput modes. Inherent industry-grade security is IEEE 802.15.4 radio support essential in today’s applications. The nRF52840 adds best-in- - Thread class security for CortexTM-M Series with on-chip ARM® CryptoCell - Zigbee cryptographic accelerator. 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F @ 64MHz
Advanced performance, lowest power consumption
Up to 111 dB link budget for Bluetooth long range mode The nRF52840 employs the same hardware and software Ful -speed 12Mbs USB control er architecture as existing nRF52 Series SoCs. At its core is an NFC Tag-A ARM Cortex-M4F processor allowing quicker and more efficient Software stacks available as downloads computation of complex functions for DSP and those requiring floating point math. There is extensive memory availability in Application development independent of protocol stack both flash and RAM, 1MB/256kB respectively. The combination Programmable output power from +8dBm to -20dBm of Cortex-M4F and memory availability offers unparalleled capa- -96dBm Sensitivity for Bluetooth low energy bilities for true single chip applications. On-air compatible with nRF51, nRF24L and nRF24AP Series A full-speed (12Mbs) USB 2.0 controller is included on-chip. An Arm CryptoCell CC310 crytographic security module extensive range of peripherals are available with a number of high performance digital interfaces such as high speed SPI High-precision RSSI (32MHz) and quad SPI (32MHz) to allow direct interfacing to dis- Wide supply voltage range + 1.7V to 5.5V plays and external memory sources. The nRF52840 can operate QSPI/SPI/2-wire/I²S/PDM/QDEC from +5.5v down to 1.7v supply voltages allowing direct supply Programmable Peripheral Interface - PPI from rechargeable batteries and USB supplies. High speed SPI interface 32MHz
Bluetooth 5 – Bluetooth Low Energy further and faster
Quad SPI interface 32MHz The nRF52840 is ready to take advantage of the considerable EasyDMA for all digital interfaces performance improvements for Bluetooth LE with the arrival of RAM mapped FIFO using EasyDMA the Bluetooth 5 specification. Of greatest importance is the sup- 12bit/200K SPS ADC port for longer range (up to x4 compared to Bluetooth 4.x) and 128 bit AES/ECB/CCM/AAR co-processor doubling of on-air data-rate, up to 2Mbs from 1Mbs in Bluetooth 4.x Single-ended antenna output (on-chip balun) On-chip DC-DC buck converter Quadrature demodulator 2Mbs (New) High throughput Regulated supply for external components up to 25mA Bluetooth 5 1Mbs Existing BLE data rate data rates 500kbs (New) Longer range APPLICATIONS 125kbs (New) Longest range IoT - Smart Home products Thread certified and 802.15.4 support - Industrial mesh networks The nRF52840 is a Thread certified component and as such - Smart city infrastructure is ideal for home networking products using the Thread mesh Advanced wearables stack. The radio supports 802.15.4 PHY and MAC layers and - Connected watches makes it suitable for additional stacks using 802.15.4 such as Zigbee. - Advanced personal fitness devices - Wearables with wireless payment - Connected Health - Virtual/Augmented Reality applications Interactive entertainment devices - Advanced remote controls - Gaming control er nRF52840 Product Brief Version 2.0