Developers can further simplify the process of application design and process development without having to purchase a complete development kit that directly sees the wireless device through the PC desktop. This nRF52840 dongle supports all major wireless standards, including Low-power Bluetooth (Bluetooth®low energy/bluetooth LE), Bluetooth mesh, which runs on the Nordic nRF52840 Multi-Protocol system-level chip (SoC), Thread, ZigBee, 802.15.4, Ant, and 2.4GHz private applications. It also has user programmable RGB LEDs, physical buttons, green LEDs, and dongle edges of the 15 gpio accessible solder joints.
To help users develop projects quickly, the Nordic nRF5 SDK provides a PCA10059 sample program named after the board name. Nordic Semiconductor Technical Marketing Manager Pål Kastnes commented: ' nRF52840 dongle is a well-designed small hardware, is the ideal front-end physical gateway with NRF Connect for Desktop pc Tools.
' ' nRF52840 dongle supports all major short-range wireless standards that can be run on Multi-Protocol Nordic nRF52840 Soc, and can even be used as a base development kit. This product, at a retail price of about 10 dollars, can be a value for money, such as the need to purchase two separate development kits when developing products that communicate with independent hardware such as smartphone applications and activity trackers.
' nRF52840 dongle can be programmed through the Nordic semiconductor nrfutil utility.
Nrfutil is a Python package and command-line utility that supports device firmware update (DFU) and encryption capabilities. Nordic introduces Low-cost USB dongle compatible with all NRF support short range wireless standards