nRF52840-MDK
An Open-Source, Micro Development Kit for IoT Applications using the nRF52840 SoC
Description
The nRF52840-MDK is a versatile, easy-to-use IoT hardware platform for Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth Mesh, Thread, IEEE 802.15.4, ANT and 2.4GHz proprietary applications using the nRF52840 SoC.
The development kit comes with a fully integrated debugger (also known as DAPLink) that provides USB drag-and-drop programming, USB Virtual COM port and CMSIS-DAP interface.
The kit contains a Microchip USB 2.0 Hi-Speed hub controller with two downstream ports: one for DAPLink interface and one for nRF52840 USB device controller. The kit also features ultra-low power 64-Mb QSPI FLASH memory, programmable user button, RGB LED, up to 24 GPIOs, antenna selection for custom applications.
It supports the standard Nordic Software Development Tool-chain using GCC, Keil and IAR. It can also be used to play with many popular frameworks, such as nRF5 SDK, nRF5 SDK for Mesh, OpenThread, ZigBee 3.0, Mbed OS 5, Zephyr, Mynewt, Web Bluetooth, iBeacon, Eddystone, and more.
Hardware Features
- Nordic nRF52840 System-on-Chip
- ARM® Cortex®-M4F processor optimized for ultra-low power operation
- Combining Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth Mesh, Thread, IEEE 802.15.4, ANT and 2.4GHz proprietary
- On-chip NFC-A tag
- On-chip USB 2.0 (Full speed) controller
- ARM TrustZone® Cryptocell 310 security subsystem
- 1 MB FLASH and 256 kB RAM
- Program/Debug options with DAPLink
- MSC - drag-n-drop programming flash memory
- CDC - virtual com port for log, trace and terminal emulation
- HID - CMSIS-DAP compliant debug channel
- WEBUSB HID - CMSIS-DAP compliant debug channel
- Microchip 2-Port USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Hub Controller
- External ultra-low power 64-Mb QSPI FLASH memory
- Up to 24 GPIOs available via headers
- IF Boot/Reset Button
- User programmable Button and RGB LED
- On-board 2.4G chip antenna
- U.FL connector selectable for external antenna
- 3.3V regulator with 1A peak current output
- VBUS & VIN Power-Path Management
- Reversible USB 3.1 Type-C Connector
- Breadboard-friendly with dual 18-Pin headers
- Measures 1.97" x 0.9" x 0.51" (50mm x 23mm x 13mm) with headers soldered in
Pinout Diagram
Documentation
We have provided develeopment docs to make it a pleasure to work with nRF52840-MDK. Get what you need here or visit https://wiki.makerdiary.com/nrf52840-mdk.
- Getting Started
- Using nRF5 SDK
- Using nRF5 SDK for Mesh
- Using OpenThread
- Using Arm Mbed OS
- Using Zephyr
- Using Mynewt
- Using DAPLink
Software Resource
The nRF52840 Micro Dev Kit USB Dongle can be used to play with : nRF5 SDK, OpenThread, Web Bluetooth, iBeacon, Eddystone, and more.
| Software | Brief Description |
|---|---|
| nRF5 SDK | Offical Software Development Kit for nRF51 and nRF52 Series |
| OpenThread Border Router | An open source border router, designed to work with OpenThread |
| Thread Network Sniffer | Help you to efficiently analyze Thread network traffic |
| Web Bluetooth | Bluetooth support for the Web |
| iBeacon | A Bluetooth low energy advertising message format designed by Apple |
| Eddystone | A protocol specification that defines a Bluetooth low energy message format for proximity beacon messages |
| CircuitPython | A Python language for microcontrollers designed to simplify experimentation and learning |
| TinyGo | Go compiler for small devices, based on LLVM |
| Rust for nrf52840-mdk | Rust support for the nrf52840-mdk development board |
| RIOT OS | The friendly Operating System for the Internet of Things, |
Hardware Resource
| Releases | Design Files |
|---|---|
| V1.0 | nRF52840-MDK V1.0 Pinout Diagram nRF52840-MDK V1.0 Schematic nRF52840-MDK V1.0 Board File nRF52840-MDK V1.0 3D STEP |
How to get nRF52840-MDK
nRF52840-MDK is available on the following channels (click to go directly to the product):
Contributing
We would love for you to contribute to this project and help make it even better than it is today! See our Contributing Guidelines for more information.
License
MIT License
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