1. nRF52840 Feature list
1.1 Features
- Bluetooth® 5, IEEE 802.15.4-2006, 2.4 GHz transceiver
- -95 dBm sensitivity in 1 Mbps Bluetooth® low energy mode
- -103 dBm sensitivity in 125 kbps Bluetooth® low energy mode (long range)
- -20 to +8 dBm TX power, configurable in 4 dB steps
- On-air compatible with nRF52, nRF51, nRF24L, and nRF24AP Series
- Supported data rates:
- Bluetooth® 5: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 kbps, and 125 kbps
- IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250 kbps
- Proprietary 2.4 GHz: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps
- Single-ended antenna output (on-chip balun)
- 128-bit AES/ECB/CCM/AAR co-processor (on-the-fly packet encryption)
- 4.8 mA peak current in TX (0 dBm)
- 4.6 mA peak current in RX
- RSSI (1 dB resolution)
- ARM® Cortex® -M4 32-bit processor with FPU, 64 MHz
- 212 EEMBC CoreMark score running from flash memory
- 52 µA/MHz running CoreMark from flash memory
- Watchpoint and trace debug modules (DWT, ETM, and ITM)
- Serial wire debug (SWD)
- Rich set of security features
- ARM® TrustZone® Cryptocell 310 security subsystem
- NIST SP800-90A and SP800-90B compliant random number generator
- AES-128: ECB, CBC, CMAC/CBC-MAC, CTR, CCM/CCM*
- Chacha20/Poly1305 AEAD supporting 128- and 256-bit key size
- SHA-1, SHA-2 up to 256 bits
- Keyed-hash message authentication code (HMAC)
- RSA up to 2048-bit key size
- SRP up to 3072-bit key size
- ECC support for most used curves, among others P-256 (secp256r1) and Ed25519/Curve25519
- Application key management using derived key model
- Secure boot ready
- Flash access control list (ACL)
- Root-of-trust (RoT)
- Debug control and configuration
- Access port protection (CTRL-AP)
- Secure erase
- ARM® TrustZone® Cryptocell 310 security subsystem
- Flexible power management
- 1.7 V to 5.5 V supply voltage range
- On-chip DC/DC and LDO regulators with automated low current modes
- 1.8 V to 3.3 V regulated supply for external components
- Automated peripheral power management
- Fast wake-up using 64 MHz internal oscillator
- 0.4 µA at 3 V in System OFF mode, no RAM retention
- 1.5 µA at 3 V in System ON mode, no RAM retention, wake on RTC
- 1 MB flash and 256 kB RAM
- Advanced on-chip interfaces
- USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps) controller
- QSPI 32 MHz interface
- High-speed 32 MHz SPI
- Type 2 near field communication (NFC-A) tag with wake-on field
- Touch-to-pair support
- Programmable peripheral interconnect (PPI)
- 48 general purpose I/O pins
- EasyDMA automated data transfer between memory and peripherals
- Nordic SoftDevice ready with support for concurrent multiprotocol
- 12-bit, 200 ksps ADC - 8 configurable channels with programmable gain
- 64 level comparator
- 15 level low-power comparator with wake-up from System OFF mode
- Temperature sensor
- 4x 4-channel pulse width modulator (PWM) unit with EasyDMA
- Audio peripherals: I2S, digital microphone interface (PDM)
- 5x 32-bit timer with counter mode
- Up to 4x SPI master/3x SPI slave with EasyDMA
- Up to 2x I2C compatible 2-wire master/slave
- 2x UART (CTS/RTS) with EasyDMA
- Quadrature decoder (QDEC)
- 3x real-time counter (RTC)
- Single crystal operation
- Package variants
- aQFN™ 73 package, 7 x 7 mm
- WLCSP93 package, 3.544 x 3.607 mm