The DK supports development with an extensive range of wireless protocols. It supports Bluetooth Low Energy with features such as high-throughput 2 Mbps, Advertising Extensions and Long Range. Mesh protocols likeBluetooth mesh, Thread and Zigbee can run concurrently with BluetoothLE, enabling smartphones to provision, commission, configure and controlmesh nodes.
NFC, ANT, 802.15.4 and 2.4 GHz proprietary protocols are alsosupported.The DK is bundled with an NFC antenna that quickly enables testing ofnRF5340’s NFC-A tag functionality. A SEGGER J-Link debugger is on theboard, enabling full-blown programming and debugging, of both thenRF5340 SoC and external targets.All analog and digital interfaces, and GPIOs are available via headers andedge connectors.
The kit is Arduino Uno Rev3 hardware compatible, meaning it can be easily interfaced with external device shields.Four buttons and four LEDs simplify input and output to and from thenRF5340 SoC, and are all user-programmable.
An on-board external memory is connected to the 96 MHz QSPI peripheral in the nRF5340 SoC.The nRF5340 DK is typically powered via USB, but can be powered by awide range of sources, within the supply range of 1.7 to 5.0 V. In addition toUSB, it can be powered with external source, but it also includes a CR2032battery holder and a Li-Po battery connector, for in-field testing. Currentconsumption can be measured by using the dedicated current measurementpins, for example by using Nordic’s Power Profiler Kit II.
High-performance application processor
128/64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 with FPU & DSP instructions
1 MB Flash + 512 KB RAM
Fully programmable
ultra-low-power network processor
64 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33 with 2 KB instruction cache
256 KB Flash and 64 KB RAM
Arm TrustZone® and Arm CryptoCell-312
Trusted execution, root-of-trust, secure key storage
Bluetooth Low Energy
Bluetooth 5.2
LE Audio
Direction Finding
2 Mbps, Advertising Extensions and Long Range
Bluetooth mesh
Thread, Zigbee and 802.15.4
NFC
Full range of digital interfaces with EasyDMA
96 MHz encrypted QSPI for external memory
32 MHz high speed SPI for displays and fast sensors
4xUART/SPI/TWI, UART/SPI/TWI
12 Mbps full-speed USB, I²S, PDM, 4xPWM, 2xQDEC
105 °C extended operating temperature
7-5.5 V supply voltage range