nRF51 Series

The nRF51 Series SoCs are a family of ultra low-power wireless SoCs from Nordic Semiconductor. The nRF51 series are designed to enable a wide range of wireless embedded systems and consumer electronic products in many different fields of wireless connectivity including wearable devices, computer peripherals, mobile phone accessories ("Appcessories"), security devices and sensor applications. The nRF51 series devices support a range of ultra low-power wireless communication protocols including: Bluetooth low energy, ANT, ANT+ and 2.4 GHz proprietary protocols.

Radio Architecture

The nRF51 series devices employ Nordic Semiconductor's 3rd generation 2.4 GHz radio architecture. This radio uses narrow-band GFSK modulation and is frequency adaptable across the 2.4 GHz ISM band.

Key Features

ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller
Programmable GPIO
Bespoke power management system
Programmable Peripheral Interconnect System
Radio packet DMA (Direct Memory Access)
4dBm output power
Independent software architecture

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 1/16/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.