Board names

The following tables list all boards and build targets for Nordic Semiconductor’s hardware platforms.

The build target column uses several entries for multi-core hardware platforms:

• For core type:

  • cpuapp - When you choose this target, you build the application core firmware.

  • cpunet - When you choose this target, you build the network core firmware.

• For usage of Cortex-M Security Extensions (CMSE):

  • Entries without */ns (cpuapp) - When you choose this target, you build the application core firmware as a single execution environment that does not use CMSE (Trusted Firmware-M (TF-M)).

  • Entries with */ns (for example, cpuapp/ns) - When you choose this target, you build the application with CMSE. The application core firmware is placed in Non-Secure Processing Environment (NSPE) and uses Secure Processing Environment (SPE) for security features. By default, the build system automatically includes Trusted Firmware-M (TF-M) in SPE and merges it with NSPE.

Read more about separation of processing environments on the Processing environments page.

Boards included in sdk-zephyr

The following boards are defined in the zephyr/boards/nordic/ folder. Also see the Supported Boards section in the Zephyr documentation.

Note

Despite being supported in Zephyr, the nRF Connect SDK does not support Nordic Thingy:52.

Hardware platform	PCA number	Board name	Build target
nRF9161 DK	PCA10153	nrf9161dk	nrf9161dk/nrf9161 nrf9161dk/nrf9161/ns
nRF9160 DK	PCA10090	nrf9160dk	nrf9160dk/nrf9160 nrf9160dk/nrf9160/ns
		nrf9160dk	nrf9160dk/nrf52840
nRF9151 DK	PCA10171	nrf9151dk	nrf9151dk/nrf9151 nrf9151dk/nrf9151/ns
nRF9131 EK	PCA10165	nrf9131ek	nrf9131ek/nrf9131 nrf9131ek/nrf9131/ns
nRF54H20 DK	PCA10175	nrf54h20dk	nrf54h20dk/nrf54h20/cpuapp nrf54h20dk/nrf54h20/cpurad nrf54h20dk/nrf54h20/cpuppr
nRF54L15 PDK	PCA10156	nrf54l15pdk	nrf54l15pdk/nrf54l15/cpuapp nrf54l15pdk@0.3.0/nrf54l15/cpuapp nrf54l15pdk/nrf54l15/cpuapp/ns
nRF5340 DK	PCA10095	nrf5340dk	nrf5340dk/nrf5340/cpunet nrf5340dk/nrf5340/cpuapp nrf5340dk/nrf5340/cpuapp/ns
nRF5340 Audio	PCA10121	nrf5340_audio_dk	nrf5340_audio_dk/nrf5340/cpuapp
Thingy:53	PCA20053	thingy53	thingy53/nrf5340/cpunet thingy53/nrf5340/cpuapp thingy53/nrf5340/cpuapp/ns
nRF52840 DK	PCA10056	nrf52840dk	nrf52840dk/nrf52840
		nrf52840dk	nrf52840dk/nrf52811
nRF52840 Dongle	PCA10059	nrf52840dongle	nrf52840dongle/nrf52840
nRF52833 DK	PCA10100	nrf52833dk	nrf52833dk/nrf52833
		nrf52833dk	nrf52833dk/nrf52820
nRF52 DK (nRF52832)	PCA10040	nrf52dk	nrf52dk/nrf52832
		nrf52dk	nrf52dk/nrf52810
		nrf52dk	nrf52dk/nrf52805
nRF21540 DK	PCA10112	nrf21540dk	nrf21540dk/nrf52840

Note

In nRF Connect SDK releases before v1.6.1:

• The build target nrf9160dk/nrf9160/ns was named nrf9160dk_nrf9160ns.

• The build target nrf5340dk/nrf5340/cpuapp/ns was named nrf5340dk_nrf5340_cpuappns.

Boards included in sdk-nrf

The following boards are defined in the nrf/boards/nordic/ folder.

Hardware platform	PCA number	Board name	Build target
nRF Desktop Gaming Mouse	PCA20041	nrf52840gmouse	nrf52840gmouse/nrf52840
nRF Desktop Mouse	PCA20044	nrf52dmouse	nrf52dmouse/nrf52832
nRF Desktop Mouse	PCA20045	nrf52810dmouse	nrf52810dmouse/nrf52810
nRF Desktop Keyboard	PCA20037	nrf52kbd	nrf52kbd/nrf52832
nRF Desktop Dongle	PCA10111	nrf52833dongle	nrf52833dongle/nrf52833
nRF Desktop Dongle	PCA10114	nrf52820dongle	nrf52820dongle/nrf52820
Thingy:91	PCA20035	thingy91	thingy91/nrf9160 thingy91/nrf9160/ns
		thingy91	thingy91/nrf52840
nRF7002 DK	PCA10143	nrf7002dk	nrf7002dk/nrf5340/cpunet nrf7002dk/nrf5340/cpuapp nrf7002dk/nrf5340/cpuapp/ns

Shields included in sdk-nrf

The following shields are defined in the nrf/boards/shields folder.

Hardware platform	PCA number	Board name	Build target
nRF7002 Evaluation Kit (EK)	PCA63556	nrf7002ek	nrf7002ek
nRF7002 EK with emulated support for the nRF7001 IC	PCA63556	nrf7002ek_nrf7001	nrf7002ek_nrf7001
nRF7002 EK with emulated support for the nRF7000 IC	PCA63556	nrf7002ek_nrf7000	nrf7002ek_nrf7000
nRF7002 Expansion Board (EB)	PCA63561	nrf7002eb	nrf7002eb
nRF21540 EK	PCA63550	nrf21540ek	nrf21540ek