nRF52832

Cost-effective Bluetooth 5.4 SoC with 512KB Flash and 64KB RAM, ideal for wearables, beacons, and low-power sensor applications.

Full Zephyr RTOS / nRF Connect SDK support. FirmwareMaestro generates Zephyr-native projects (prj.conf, CMakeLists.txt, Devicetree overlays) targeting this MCU.

Cost-effective Bluetooth 5.4 SoC with 512KB Flash and 64KB RAM, ideal for wearables, beacons, and low-power sensor applications.

Specifications

Spec	Value
Flash	512KB
Ram	64KB
Core	ARM Cortex-M4F
MaxClock	64 MHz
Gpio	32

Wireless Protocols

ble, ant, 2.4ghz-proprietary

Hardware Features

arm-cortex-m4, fpu, nfc-a, adc, pwm, spi, i2c, uart

Vendor

Nordic Semiconductor — SDKs: nRF Connect SDK, Zephyr RTOS

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Ready-Made Solutions

nRF52832 BLE Beacon

Build an ultra-low-power BLE beacon with the nRF52832 — iBeacon/Eddystone compatible with years of coin cell battery life for indoor positioning and proximity detection.