The nRF5 Software Development Kit for Thread helps you when developing Thread products with Nordic Semiconductor's advanced nRF52840 System on Chip (SoC).

This SDK and all of its examples are considered experimental.

Warning: This SDK only supports the nRF52840 chip and the nRF52840 Preview Development Kit. Do not use it with nRF51 and nRF52832 SoCs, because they do not feature the 802.15.4 radio.

The Thread examples in this pack are built on top of the OpenThread stack (OpenThread) and the nRF5 SDK v13.0.0, which you can use to develop your applications. See nRF5 SDK v13.0.0 for full documentation of nRF5 SDK v13.0.0.

You will find the following information in this documentation:

Getting Started with Thread - Basic information on environment setup and on how to build and run the examples.
OpenThread libraries - Provides information about the OpenThread libraries included in this SDK.
Border Router Quick Start Guide - Provides information on how to set up Nordic's Border Router solution.
nRF Thread Topology Monitor - Demostrates the usage of the Thread Topology Monitor application.

OpenThread stack API reference

Thread examples

Note: Support for hardware-accelerated cryptography utilizing ARM CryptoCell-310 is only available in mbedTLS library (libmbedcrypto.a) provided with the SDK. The library available in OpenThread repository does not support hardware acceleration. You can still use it, but the commissioning procedure takes much more time in such case. For the best performance, use the library provided with the SDK.

For more details about Thread, visit Thread Group.