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/arm/ folder. Also see the Supported Boards section in the Zephyr documentation.

Hardware platform	PCA number	Board name	Build target
nRF52 DK (nRF52832)	PCA10040	nrf52dk_nrf52832	nrf52dk_nrf52832
		nrf52dk_nrf52810	nrf52dk_nrf52810
		nrf52dk_nrf52805	nrf52dk_nrf52805
nRF52833 DK	PCA10100	nrf52833dk_nrf52833	nrf52833dk_nrf52833
		nrf52833dk_nrf52820	nrf52833dk_nrf52820
nRF52840 DK	PCA10056	nrf52840dk_nrf52840	nrf52840dk_nrf52840
		nrf52840dk_nrf52811	nrf52840dk_nrf52811
nRF52840 Dongle	PCA10059	nrf52840dongle_nrf52840	nrf52840dongle_nrf52840
Thingy:52	PCA20020	thingy52_nrf52832	thingy52_nrf52832
nRF21540 DK	PCA10112	nrf21540dk_nrf52840	nrf21540dk_nrf52840
nRF5340 DK	PCA10095	nrf5340dk_nrf5340	nrf5340dk_nrf5340_cpunet nrf5340dk_nrf5340_cpuapp nrf5340dk_nrf5340_cpuapp_ns
Thingy:53	PCA20053	thingy53_nrf5340	thingy53_nrf5340_cpunet thingy53_nrf5340_cpuapp thingy53_nrf5340_cpuapp_ns
nRF5340 Audio	PCA10121	nrf5340_audio_dk_nrf5340	nrf5340_audio_dk_nrf5340_cpuapp
nRF9160 DK	PCA10090	nrf9160dk_nrf9160	nrf9160dk_nrf9160 nrf9160dk_nrf9160_ns
		nrf9160dk_nrf52840	nrf9160dk_nrf52840
nRF9161 DK	PCA10153	nrf9161dk_nrf9161	nrf9161dk_nrf9161 nrf9161dk_nrf9161_ns
nRF9151 DK	PCA10171	nrf9151dk_nrf9151	nrf9151dk_nrf9151 nrf9151dk_nrf9151_ns
nRF9131 EK	PCA10165	nrf9131ek_nrf9131	nrf9131ek_nrf9131 nrf9131ek_nrf9131_ns

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/arm/ folder.

Hardware platform	PCA number	Board name	Build target
nRF Desktop Gaming Mouse	PCA20041	nrf52840gmouse_nrf52840	nrf52840gmouse_nrf52840
nRF Desktop Mouse	PCA20044	nrf52dmouse_nrf52832	nrf52dmouse_nrf52832
nRF Desktop Mouse	PCA20045	nrf52810dmouse_nrf52810	nrf52810dmouse_nrf52810
nRF Desktop Keyboard	PCA20037	nrf52kbd_nrf52832	nrf52kbd_nrf52832
nRF Desktop Dongle	PCA10111	nrf52833dongle_nrf52833	nrf52833dongle_nrf52833
nRF Desktop Dongle	PCA10114	nrf52820dongle_nrf52820	nrf52820dongle_nrf52820
Thingy:91	PCA20035	thingy91_nrf9160	thingy91_nrf9160 thingy91_nrf9160_ns
		thingy91_nrf52840	thingy91_nrf52840
nRF7002 DK	PCA10143	nrf7002dk_nrf5340	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