nRF52840
Product Specification
v1.1
4413_417 v1.1 / 2019-02-28
Feature list
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
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 multi-
protocol
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
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