Developing with nRF53 Series

Information in this section complements the general Application development guides (such as Configuring and building or Programming an application) with information specific to devices of the nRF53 Series.

Zephyr and the nRF Connect SDK provide support and contain board definitions for developing on the following nRF53 Series devices:

DK	PCA number	Board targets	Documentation
nRF5340 DK	PCA10095	nrf5340dk/nrf5340/cpuapp, nrf5340dk/nrf5340/cpuapp/ns, nrf5340dk/nrf5340/cpunet	Product Specification User Guide
nRF5340 Audio DK	PCA10121	nrf5340_audio_dk/nrf5340/cpuapp, nrf5340_audio_dk/nrf5340/cpuapp/ns, nrf5340_audio_dk/nrf5340/cpunet	Hardware Specification nRF5340 Audio applications
Thingy:53	PCA20053	thingy53/nrf5340/cpuapp, thingy53/nrf5340/cpuapp/ns, thingy53/nrf5340/cpunet	Hardware Specification

Note

The nRF5340 PDK has been deprecated with the introduction of the production-level nRF5340 DK. To determine if you have a PDK or DK, check the version number on the sticker on your kit. If the version is 0.11.0 or higher, the kit is an nRF5340 DK.

See the nRF Connect SDK v1.4.0 documentation for the last release supporting the nRF5340 PDK.

nRF5340 Audio DK is a custom reference hardware based on the nRF5340 DK. It is meant for use with for nRF5340 Audio applications, which integrate the LE Audio standard. Given their complexity, the applications use custom building and programming procedures. Refer to their documentation for more information.

The Nordic Thingy:53 is a battery-operated prototyping platform for IoT Systems. The Nordic Thingy:53 integrates the nRF5340 SoC that supports Bluetooth® Low Energy, IEEE 802.15.4 based protocols and Near Field Communication (NFC). The nRF5340 is augmented with the nRF21540 RF FEM (Front-end Module) Range extender that has an integrated power amplifier (PA)/low-noise amplifier (LNA) and nPM1100 Power Management IC (PMIC) that has an integrated dual-mode buck regulator and battery charger.

Subpages:

• Features of nRF53 Series
  • Dual-core architecture
  • Enhanced security features
  • Supported protocols
• Building and programming with nRF53 Series
  • Building and programming with nRF5340 DK
  • Building and programming with Thingy:53
• FOTA updates with nRF5340 DK
  • FOTA over Bluetooth Low Energy
  • FOTA update sample
  • FOTA in Bluetooth Mesh
  • FOTA in Matter
  • FOTA over Thread
  • FOTA over Zigbee
• Multi-image builds on the nRF5340 DK using child and parent images
  • Default build configuration
  • Configuration of the child image
• Simultaneous multi-image DFU with nRF5340 DK
• MCUboot’s serial recovery of the networking core image
  • Container for firmware update binaries
• Getting logging output with nRF5340 DK
  • nRF5340 DK v2.0.0 COM ports
  • nRF5340 DK v1.0.0 COM ports
• Application guide for Thingy:53
  • Connecting to Thingy:53
  • Updating firmware image for Thingy:53
  • Partition manager configuration
  • MCUboot bootloader
  • USB
  • Antenna selection
  • FOTA over Bluetooth Low Energy
  • External flash
  • Samples and applications for Thingy:53 with FOTA out of the box
• External execute in place (XIP) configuration on the nRF5340 SoC
  • Enabling configuration options
  • Setting up QSPI flash
  • Setting up static partition manager
  • Configuring linker script
  • Setting up code relocation
  • Building the project
  • Programming the project
  • Troubleshooting
  • Indication of XIP performance
  • Additional information