BT832A, BT832AF nRF52810 Bluetooth 5 Module

BT832A/BT832AF is a Bluetooth Low Energy, BLE 5 module using Nordic nRF52810 SoC with an integrated PCB trace antenna. 

Size of BT832A is 14x16x1.9mm. It has 16 castellated pins for applications needing limited number of GPIOs. Additional 24 LGA (Land Grid Array) pins provide access to all nRF52810 GPIO pins. 

Size of BT832AF is 15x20.8x1.9mm. It has the same footprint as BT832A with a high performance PCB trace antenna. Bluetooth range between BT832F and BT832AF is 760 meters at 1 Mbps.

Basing on nRF52810, BT832A is a lower cost alternative to BT832, an nRF52832 module. BT832A is pin to pin compatible with BT832. Three main differences:

1. Cortex M4F in BT832 has hardware DSP and floating point instructions. Cortex M4 in BT832A has hardware DSP instructions but it does not have floating point unit to support hardware instruction.

2. Flash/RAM memories in BT832 are 512KB/64KB. They are 192KB/24KB in BT832A.

3. BT832 has NFC tag interface. BT832A does not have NFC tag interface.

If your application does not need NFC tag interface, hardware floating point instruction, and 192KB flash/24KB RAM is enough, BT832A can be used instead.

Specifications

• Nordic nRF52810 QFAA with ARM Cortex M4 (no Floating Point Unit)

• 192 KB flash, 24 KB RAM

• Complete RF solution with integrated antenna

• Bluetooth range: 75 to 140 meters; Average range: 100 meters

• 128-bit AES HW encryption

• Serial Wire Debug (SWD)

• Nordic SoftDevice Ready

• Over-The-Air (OTA) firmware update

Up to 32 GPIOs, firmware configurable and Peripherals

• 12 bit/200Ksps ADC, 8 configurable channels with programmable gain

• 64 level comparator

• 15 level low power comparator with wake-up from system OFF mode

• Temperature sensor

• 3x 4-channel pulse width modulator (PWM) units with EasyDMA

• Digital microphone interface (PDM)

• 5x 32 bit timers with counter mode

• Up to 3x SPI Master/Slave with Easy DMA

• Up to 2x I2C compatible 2-wire master/slave

• I2S with EasyDMA

• UART (CTS/RTS) with EasyDMA

• Programmable peripheral interconnect (PPI)

• Quadrature Demodulator (QDEC)

• AES HW encryption with EasyDMA

• Autonomous peripheral operation without CPU intervention using PPI and Easy DMA

• 3x real time counter (RTC)

Power:

• Operation voltage: 1.7V to 3.6V

• Peak current: 5.4 mA RX, 5.3 mA TX at 0 dBm.

• 0.4 uA OFF mode, 1.8 uA idle

RF Performance

• RX sensitivity: -96 dBm

• TX power: -20 to +4 dBm in 4 dB steps

Miscellaneous

• Sizes: 14x16x1.9mm

• Operation Temperature: -40°C to +85°C

• Integrated shield to resist EMI

• Evaluation board: EV-BT832A or EV-BT832AF.

• Availability: BT832A and BT832AF are in production. Approtect version BT832A-p and BT832Af-p begins in May 2023. For more information and to order free approtect version module samples.

Certifications:

• FCC ID: X8WBT832

• IC (Industrial Canada) ID: 4100A-BT832

• Europe: Certified

• Australia: Certified.

• Japan TELEC: 201-180944

• QDID: 97989

Evaluation Board EV BT832A

EV BT832A is preloaded with BlueNor nRF5x application and SoftDevice S132 V5.0.0 Bluetooth 5 stacks. It can be used with Android app BlueNor nrf5x available at Google Play Store. You can send commands from an Android phone to toggle LED light on evaluation board. You can also send button pressing signal from evaluation board to Android device. 

SDK and Android app source codes are available for download in the Bluetooth 5 Codes section of Download BlueNor Document. Other application codes can be downloaded from the same webpage.

To load other codes or to develop your own, a Nordic nRF52 DK is required but not included.

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