The nRF53 Series is Nordic Semiconductor’s third generation of Bluetooth® Low Energy System-on-chip (SoC) devices, building on the foundation of the nRF51 and nRF52 Series.
The nRF53 Series introduces multicore flexibility to Nordic’s portfolio of short-range devices. As a dual core device, no trade-off is necessary as one core is optimized for performance and the other for efficiency. nRF53 Series devices offer a secure solution through trusted execution incorporating Arm®TrustZone®, root-of-trust using Arm CryptoCell™-312, and a key management unit (KMU) peripheral for secure key storage. The nRF53 Series has extensive wireless protocol support, including Bluetooth 5.1 Direction Finding, Bluetooth 5 Long Range, NFC, Bluetooth Mesh, Thread, and Zigbee.