RE: nrf5 reference layouts and EDA files

Moritz — Tue, 07 May 2019 11:46:35 GMT

Thanks for the extensive and fast reply. Much appreciated

RE: nrf5 reference layouts and EDA files

Andreas — Tue, 07 May 2019 11:11:21 GMT

Hi,

You can find HW file download in the product gave of each respective IC. See this link for nRF52832. We only supply the official reference designs in Altium format, this is what we use and verify internally, though you can find an unverified reference design replicate as a part of our Eagle library offering on Nordic Semiconductor Playground.

We do not provide any other formats, if you are not able to convert from Altium you need to make it yourself, it is a standard QNF48 package. There should be some KiCAD libraries available, but as mentioned we have no idea how any of them perform. Ruuvi though should be fairly well verified.

You can see this whitepaper on how to design an antenna for nRF52832. A more compact alternative is the one in the nRF52840 Dongle (HW files here), but you need to replicate that one exactly for it to work properly, the monopole you can bend and tuck away a little more as you like.

Best regards,

Andreas

RE: nrf5 reference layouts and EDA files

FormerMember — Tue, 07 May 2019 10:59:43 GMT

Nordic Semiconductor has only reference layouts in Altium Designer files. For nRF52832, they can be downloaded from the nRF52832 product page.