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Sparkfun nRF52832 Breakout ​

chip:nrf52, chip:nrf52832

The Sparkfun nRF52832 Breakout is basic board providing access to all I/O pins, a 32kHz crystal and LED.

Sparkfun nRF52832 Breakout

Features ​

  • nRF52832 MCU (QFAAB0), 512K FLASH and 64 SRAM
  • Reset and user button
  • Power LED (blue) and user LED (red)
  • 32768 Hz crystal
  • NFC antenna connection pads
  • Cortex Debug connector
  • UART + SWD header

Pin Mapping ​

Pin Signal Notes


P0.06 User Button Active LOW P0.07 P0.26 P0.27 User LED UART TXO UART RXI Active LOW

Configurations ​

nsh ​

Basic NuttShell configuration (console enabled in UART0, at 115200 bps).

Flash & Debug ​

An external debugger is required, so the procedure to flash/debug depends on the chosen interface. Using an ST-Link V2 you can flash using OpenOCD with:

openocd -f interface/stlink-v2.cfg -f target/nrf52.cfg -c "program nuttx/nuttx.bin 0x0000000 verify reset; shutdown"