Hardware design, test and measurement - nRF5 SDK guides

nRF52805 Specific PCB Guidelines

This guide will cover the specific areas that must be paid extra attention to when designing a PCB for nRF52805. It is intended as a nRF52805 specific addition to the General PCB design guidelines for nRF52, which should be read and followed unless o...

18 Jun 2020

nRF52832 Specific PCB Guidelines

user9102

This guide will cover the specific areas that must be paid extra attention to when designing a PCB for nRF52832. It is intended as a nRF52832 specific addition to the General PCB design guidelines for nRF52, which should be read and followed unless o...

10 Jun 2020

Automating Power Profiler Kit measurements from the command line

user4528

Nordic's Power Profiler Kit (PPK) is an inexpensive piece of hardware that can provide a significant amount of insight into the operation and performance of your project. Although there is a lot that you can learn by experimenting with the PPK us...

2 Aug 2019

General PCB design guidelines for nRF52 series

user2103

When designing a high-frequency PCB there are some rules that should be followed in order to get a good working radio/system. Below are some general PCB guidelines. These guidelines should be followed to maximize the performance of the system. It is ...

11 Jul 2016

Current measurement guide: Measuring current with nRF52832 Engineering B and S132 v2.0.0-7.alpha

Stian Røed Hafskjold

###Other relevant posts For an overview of current measurement basics, see this post: Introduction For a concise guide to setting up measurement equipment with the nRF52832 development kit, see this post: Measuring current with PCA10040 v0.9.0 ...

1 Dec 2015

Current measurement guide: Measuring current with PCA10040 v0.9.0

Stian Røed Hafskjold

###Other relevant posts For an overview of current measurement basics, see this post: Introduction A post that describes how to measure current on the nRF52821 Engineering B with SoftDevice s132 v2.0.0-7.alpha and shows the results of some measur...

1 Dec 2015

Current measurement guide: Introduction

Stian Røed Hafskjold

###Other relevant posts A concise guide to equipment setup, and how to use the development kit for current measurements can be found here: Measuring current with PCA10040 v0.9.0 A post that describes how to measure current on the nRF52821 Enginee...

1 Dec 2015

General PCB design guidelines for nRF51 series

Petter Myhre

When designing a PCB with nRF51, nRF51822 or nRF51422, there are some rules that should be followed in order to get a good working radio/system, with a maximized range. General rule The RF part of the schematic and layout should be a copy of our r...

13 Nov 2015

nRF51 series current consumption guide

user2110

nRF51 Low power modes and power profiles documentation The low power modes for the nRF51 series are System On and System Off. You can read about them in the nRF51 Series Reference Manual v3.0 sections 12.1.5 and 12.1.7. Additional information are al...

1 Jun 2015