nRF52840 Dongle

Blecon Modem for Prototyping

The nRF52840 Dongle is a cheap and widely available USB dongle with an nRF52840 onboard.

nRF52840 Dongle

Pinout

The nRF52840 Dongle exposes the Blecon modem serialisation interface over USB and a physical UART port as below.

nRF52840 Dongle pinout
Pin Label
Name
Function

GND

GND

Ground

VBUS

VBUS

USB Power supply

VDD OUT

VDD

nRF Embedded Regulator Output

1.13

RX

UART RX

1.10

TX

UART TX

0.02

CTS

UART Clear to Send

1.15

RTS

UART Ready to Send

0.09

NFC1

NFC antenna connection

0.10

NFC2

NFC antenna connection

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