Welcome to the nRF Connect SDK!

The nRF Connect SDK is where you begin building low-power wireless applications with Nordic Semiconductor nRF52, nRF53, and nRF91 Series devices.

The SDK contains optimized cellular IoT (LTE-M and NB-IoT), Bluetooth® Low Energy, Thread, Zigbee, and Bluetooth mesh stacks, a range of applications, samples, and reference implementations, as well as a full suite of drivers for Nordic Semiconductor’s devices. The nRF Connect SDK includes the Zephyr™ real-time operating system (RTOS), which is built for connected low power products.

To access different versions of the nRF Connect SDK documentation, use the version drop-down in the top right corner. A “99” at the end of the version number of this documentation indicates continuous updates on the main branch since the previous major.minor release.

Contents

• About the nRF Connect SDK
  • About the nRF Connect SDK license
  • Documentation pages
  • Tools and configuration
  • Repositories and revisions
• Glossary
• Getting started
  • Requirements
  • Installing automatically
  • Installing manually
  • Building and programming an application
  • Testing and debugging an application
  • Modifying an application
  • Updating repositories and tools
• Development model
  • nRF Connect SDK code base
  • Managing the code base
  • Adding your own code
• Application development
  • Board support
  • Pin control
  • Build and configuration system
  • Optimizing application
  • Bootloaders and Device Firmware Updates
  • Logging in nRF Connect SDK
  • Multi-image builds
  • Testing with Unity and CMock
  • Running applications with Trusted Firmware-M
  • Working with RF front-end modules
  • Adding Wi-Fi Coexistence support to short-range radio applications
  • Using external components
• Security
  • Secure boot
  • Trusted Firmware-M
  • Hardware unique key
  • Device firmware upgrade (DFU)
  • Cryptographic operations in nRF Connect SDK
• Working with nRF91 Series
  • Features of nRF91 Series
  • Getting started with nRF9160 DK
  • Developing with nRF9160 DK
  • Getting started with Thingy:91
  • Developing with Thingy:91
• Working with nRF70 Series
  • Getting started with nRF7002 DK
• Working with nRF53 Series
  • Working with nRF5340 DK
  • Getting started with Thingy:53
  • Developing with Thingy:53
• Working with nRF52 Series
  • Introduction
  • Supported protocols
  • Multiprotocol support
  • FOTA upgrades
  • Building and programming a sample
• Using nRF Cloud with the nRF Connect SDK
  • Overview
  • Choosing a protocol: MQTT or REST
  • Security
  • nRF Connect SDK library support
  • Applications and samples
• Protocols
  • Bluetooth LE Controller
  • Bluetooth mesh
  • Enhanced ShockBurst (ESB)
  • Gazell
  • Matter
  • Multiprotocol support
  • Near Field Communication (NFC)
  • Thread
  • Zigbee
• Applications
  • Connectivity bridge
  • nRF9160: Asset Tracker v2
  • nRF9160: Serial LTE modem
  • nRF Desktop
  • nRF5340 Audio
  • nRF Machine Learning
  • Thingy:53: Matter weather station
  • Thingy:53: Zigbee weather station
• Samples
  • Bluetooth samples
  • Cryptography samples
  • Edge Impulse samples
  • Gazell samples
  • Matter samples
  • NFC samples
  • nRF5340 samples
  • nRF9160 samples
  • Thread samples
  • Zigbee samples
  • Wi-Fi samples
  • Other samples
• Drivers
  • CC310 entropy driver
  • Ethernet over RTT driver
  • CC310 hardware driver
  • PAW3212 driver
  • PMW3360 driver
  • Simulated sensor driver
  • Sensor stub driver
  • Low power UART driver
• Libraries
  • Binary libraries
  • Bluetooth libraries and services
  • Bootloader libraries
  • Common Application Framework
  • Debug libraries
  • DFU libraries
  • Gazell libraries
  • Modem libraries
  • Multiprotocol Service Layer libraries
  • Libraries for networking
  • Libraries for NFC
  • nRF RPC libraries
  • Other libraries
  • Shell libraries
  • TF-M libraries
  • Libraries for Zigbee
• Scripts
  • Bluetooth LE Console
  • Fast Pair provision script
  • HID configurator for nRF Desktop
  • Partition Manager
  • Software Bill of Materials
  • MDS BLE gateway script
• Release notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v2.1.1 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v2.1.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v2.0.2 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v2.0.1 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v2.0.0 Release Notes
  • Migration notes for nRF Connect SDK v2.0.0
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.9.2 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.9.1 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.9.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.8.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.7.1 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.7.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.6.1 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.6.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.5.2 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.5.1 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.5.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.4.2 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.4.1 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.4.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.3.2 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.3.1 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.3.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.2.1 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.2.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.1.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v1.0.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v0.4.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v0.3.0 Release Notes
  • nRF Connect SDK v0.1.0 Release Notes
• Software maturity levels
  • Protocol support
  • HomeKit features support
  • Thread features support
  • Matter features support
  • Zigbee feature support
  • Security Feature Support
• About this documentation
  • Documentation structure
  • Building the nRF Connect SDK documentation
  • Documentation guidelines
  • Documentation templates
  • Documentation build process