Nordic Semiconductor expands the nRF54L Series with nRF54LM20A, a high-memory wireless SoC for advanced Bluetooth LE and Matter applications
We selected the Nordic nRF5340 SoC for our LEO-L50 outdoor asset management device due to the SoC’s powerful computing and low power consumption capabilities, as well as its support for the Zephyr RTOS which provides greater flexibility during development. Moreover, the nRF5340 SoC-enabled Bluetooth LE connectivity provides the LEO-L50 with further expansion capabilities, allowing it to connect to various sensors to deliver a wide range of monitoring data beyond GNSS location.
Kenny Tsai, Advantech Product Manager
Read moreIn the past we have used a processor and modem in separate packages, but with Nordic’s nRF9160 SiP we have all the components we need in a compact form factor, while the power consumption capabilities of the nRF9160 were also an important consideration for our CharIoT data logger. We aim to give 10-year battery life, and that’s possible even with data transmissions as frequent as every 30 minutes. In addition, we decided to use a Nordic solution because the company provides a lot of open-source libraries, well-documented code and examples, while Nordic’s DevZone forum is full of expert application engineers ready to advise on any development issues. The Nordic SDK was also very useful, cutting down engineering time considerably.
Damien Lobb,
Electronics Engineer, Ashridge Engineering
The nRF52840 SoC is the true ‘brain’ of our Atoms, and that brain has to take in raw sensor data, convert it to useful information and make independent decisions before communicating in a tough RF environment … this chip delivers on all counts. While the chip technology is great, the support Nordic provides for a small start-up like Atomation is truly outstanding. Whether it’s technical information, application support or insight into the roadmap, Nordic has truly acted like a committed partner.
Steve Hassell,
CEO at Atomation
The nRF52840 SoC was the ideal balance between size, power consumption and performance … in addition to the product itself, the communication and technical support from the Nordic team were very helpful and encouraging for us as a startup. It gave us confidence in planning the entire technical roadmap for our motorcycle glasses series.
Zhu Ning, Founder and CEO of Blucap
Read moreOne of the most important reasons we selected the nRF9160 SiP was the Nordic nRF Connect SDK. To achieve stable performance and low power consumption, we relied heavily on the SDK’s core firmware to optimize our application software. The Nordic team also provided us with excellent support throughout the development process. Our engineers benefitted greatly from the assistance of the Nordic DevZone, which helped speed up the development process.
Daniel Lai, Founder and CEO of Brocere Electronics
View the full storyFanstel selected Nordic’s nRF5340 SoC for its powerful dual processors, and the nRF7002 for its extreme low power consumption. But Nordic Semiconductor also offers the easiest to use firmware development environment, and its tech support team is the best in the industry.
Dr Yuan Fan,
Fanstel founder and CEO
We used the nRF Connect Software Development Kit [SDK] to build our application entirely in-house – in fact, we were able to use the SDK to prototype parts of our application in a matter of days and develop a field ready beta solution in weeks. The abundance of sample code made it easy to get started, and we found the documentation easy to navigate and helpful as we started to optimize for power and performance.
Peter Condoleon, CTO and Co-Founder of GreaseBoss
View the full storyDuring development Nordic’s powerful nRF Connect SDK was of great help. It provides rich development resources and sample codes, covering various functions and application scenarios. We were able to develop and debug our applications more quickly by taking advantage of the sample code and documentation provided by the SDK
Sue Li, Field Application Engineer, Minew
obiWAN relies on the Nordic Semiconductor nRF9160 SiP’s processing power, on both the cellular and GNSS radios, on all its security features, its very low power consumption, and its interfaces and peripherals. Our development team is familiar with Nordic’s excellent technical support and information, forum discussions, development tools, and the high level of expertise from the Nordic engineering team. It is a choice based on the high performance of Nordic’s product range, but it is also a choice to work with people that make Nordic Semiconductor such a great company.
Miguel Lira, CEO at obiWAN
View the full storyPanasonic Industry has chosen Nordic Semiconductor solutions to enhance our own products and make them ideally suited for Matter applications. For example, our PAN B511-1C module employs Nordic’s new nRF54L15 SoC for the chip’s unbeatable performance-to-power consumption ratio. As a market and innovation leader in Bluetooth LE, Nordic consistently meets our high standards through its technical expertise and attentive application engineers.
Tomislav Tipura, Product Manager IoT, Panasonic Industry Europe GmbH
View the full storyWe selected the nRF5340 SoC for the high performance application processor and ample memory it provides, while the nRF7002 Wi-Fi Companion IC not only offers the latest Wi-Fi 6 technology, but its low power consumption makes it ideal for battery-powered devices. Both the nRF5340 and nRF7002 also meet industrial grade operating temperature requirements from -40 to 85°C, making them suitable for use in harsh environments. We also partner with Nordic because of its excellent brand reputation, and rapid technical support.
Andy Shih, Sales Director at Quanta Storage Inc.
View the full storyUsing the Nordic Semiconductor nRF9160 SiP’s LTE-M cellular IoT connectivity, our EdgeTrak 4S multiprotocol industrial connectivity solution can relay user equipment data to the Cloud remotely, allowing field personnel to make better use of their time by putting an end to routine visits and relying on alerts instead. From marginally data intensive applications to applications needing occasional high density data, the nRF9160 SiP has been a perfect fit for Rulo. All while consuming very low power and always connected to the cellular network. The nRF9160 also fits very well with the long term roadmap for Rulo, while Nordic’s technical support was first class.
Vijay Janardhan,
President, Rulo
Sensry chose Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52840 for its Kallisto SY021-PCB multi-sensor module primarily due to the SoC’s extremely power efficient implementation, but also the available Bluetooth front end and the Zephyr RTOS support. We also selected the Nordic nPM1100 for power management due to the PMIC’s high integration with the battery charger and all required DC/DC converters. In addition, we have been able to rely on the excellent design-in support, the Nordic DevZone forum, and the availability of direct, competent discussion partners at Nordic.
Mario Grafe, Engineering Manager, Sensry
View the full storyTavago Tech chose Nordic Semiconductor solutions—including the nRF9160 SiP, nRF7000 Wi-Fi 6 Companion IC, nRF52833 SoC, and nPM1100 PMIC—for a number of reasons including the hassle-free power management and best-in-class low power consumption. But we also deeply appreciate the support from Nordic’s sales and application engineers, which has been excellent compared to any other companies we have worked with in the past.
Sriram Narayanaswamy, CEO at Tavago Tech
View the full storyNordic’s DevZone is the first line of defense when developing hardware and firmware. More often than not, if we had a question, it was already answered in detail on DevZone. If we couldn’t find an answer the response time and quality of response from Nordic’s application engineers was unlike anything else I’ve experienced in the industry. The documentation is also far and away superior to other SiP providers.
Gary Naden, President, Vigilant Onsite
View the full storyWe chose Nordic not just for the quality of its SoC, but for the ease it provides around the development environment, especially with its software development kits. Thanks to the SDKs, firmware development becomes extremely easy and there is no limit to our software development. Aside from the great software, Nordic SoCs come with a very special flexible peripheral mapping feature which allows hardware engineers to annotate as we wish to save a lot of time in schematic design and PCB layout, and more than 30 percent of our total development time. This gives us confidence and peace of mind with our design and allows us to effectively focus on our tasks.
Yasunari Kohashi,
CEO of Braveridge
The awesome low power consumption and long range capabilities of Nordic’s SoCs were a major selling point for us. Also our team has worked with Nordic technology for a long time and the company has the best support I’ve encountered among any of the Bluetooth LE chip companies. This made us very comfortable selecting Nordic as our partner.
Jonathan Moyes,
Vice President of Product Engineering at HerdDogg
Nordic’s nRF52811 SoC was the only device that could give us the tiny form factor we needed for our S1 Bluetooth-FPGA System On Module. The maturity of Nordic's software was also a key part of our decision. With so many projects and examples available, no other family of wireless devices is as easy to develop with as the Nordic nRF52 Series.
In addition, Nordic has long been a company we could rely on and with vast amounts of technical knowledge, we’ve learned a great deal over the years about building quality systems through the company’s products. As Nordic continues to release new, exciting products in the future, we are keen to update our devices accordingly.
Raj Nakarja,
Chief Engineer & CEO, Silicon Witchery
With the Seguro 120, we set out to design a truly disruptive temperature tracker, using the latest in wireless technology. When we looked at which vendors were providing both cutting-edge technology and the support we would need to get to market quickly, Nordic was the clear choice. We’ve been very impressed with the level of support from Nordic throughout development, and Nordic’s out-of-the-box support for the Zephyr RTOS, with its robust set of services and drivers, has shortened our development cycle by months. The exceptional support has continued post-launch, with Nordic helping us to navigate a very challenging supply chain environment. Having Nordic as a partner has been a key part of our success, and I’m looking forward to continuing the partnership in the future.
Chris Bear,
President and Founder of sensified.io
Nordic’s solutions are built on leading edge technology. We selected the nRF9160 for our ENOR E-L/N gateway because it’s a compact solution with a powerful Arm processor, generous memory capacity, built-in GNSS, and precertification for different carriers, that together ensure reliable performance worldwide. This enables the gateway to provide telcos, service providers and end customers with a robust cellular IoT-based asset tracking solution backed by intelligent Cloud-based analytics.
Vivek Pramod,
SVP & GM – Smart Controls, WiSilica
The nRF52840 SoC was the right choice for our design. Ample Flash and RAM allowed us to build a rich connectivity experience, while Nordic has been an attentive design partner from the get-go. The application engineers respond quickly to enquiries and their documentation, including datasheets and reference designs, is first class
Brian Martins,
Group Lead Electrical Engineering at WHOOP
We chose Nordic as a leader in the Bluetooth LE space. Most of our key partners were already closely affiliated to Nordic and that made them an obvious choice strategically. We also found that though Nordic has some very large companies as customers they provided a level of support and partnership to us that was very personal and engaged. We have high expectations and Nordic has always delivered, giving us early access to technical resources as well as helping procure supply for us during these challenging times.
Ken Goto,
Co-founder and CTO, Level Home
We selected Nordic chipsets for our SwitchBot smart home ecosystem due to three key advantages: Reliable RF connectivity; class-leading low power consumption design; and support for advanced features such as Bluetooth 5 and Long Range, as well as multiprotocol support for our own Bluetooth-based mesh protocol which uses demand routing rather than advertisement flooding. Nordic’s sales and support team has a strong technical background compared with other semiconductor vendors. They are highly professional and offer fast, useful responses to queries.
Connery Li,
Founder and CEO, Wonderlabs Limited
As a long term Nordic partner, it was a natural choice to develop the ISP2053-AX module based on the nRF5340 SoC. We believe Nordic has established itself as the market leader for good reasons – a clear strategy, excellent technical support, and high quality products at reasonable prices. We have never seen any reason to base our Bluetooth LE products on chips from any other supplier.
Nick Wood,
Sales and Marketing Director, Insight SiP
Do Technology’s main product is smartwatches, and we have been a strategic partner of Nordic for around 10 years. Nordic is a company with a very good reputation in the industry providing us with very strong supply chain support. Many of our products use the nRF52840 SoC for its stability and reliability, and extensively tested software. Nordic also has a very professional technical team, always providing us detailed technical information and training which helps our product development and improves R&D working efficiency a lot. So we are always happy to cooperate with Nordic.
An He,
Founder and CEO, Shenzhen DO Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
The key features of Nordic’s nRF52832 SoC for our BLUEPYRO-M3225 module are its tiny size, extreme low power capabilities, powerful Arm MCU, and generous memory allocation for user applications. From a software perspective, Nordic’s open source nRF5 SDK [Software Development Kit] can easily integrate with our existing code base without conflict, making it highly flexible and adaptable to any development environment and any Real Time Operating System. This feature is of utmost importance and the number one requirement for choosing an RF software development solution. In addition, the availability of open tech support from experienced users through Nordic’s DevZone forum helps us resolve issues quickly.
Nguyen Hoan Hoang,
President, I-SYST
Our main target market is Europe where Nordic Semiconductor is very well known and accepted. This was one reason why we use the Nordic nRF52832 SoC in all our Bluetooth Low Energy products. With our own communication protocol and design logic implemented on the nRF52832, our products can achieve dynamic and sophisticated functions and solve practically every issue in real world implementations, even the most challenging ones.
Benny Cheng,
Marketing Director, Hytronik
I have worked with Nordic for many years in a range of Bluetooth Low Energy and cellular NB-IoT applications for both development projects and very high volume commercial contracts. Each time management has requested an evaluation of the competition's products, and Nordic has always come out on top when it comes to pricing, product range, technical support and knowledgeable technical staff. The strong developer community means the online content around the hardware and software is rich with code examples, dev kits and active support forums, meaning we are able to gain insights and solutions to problems if they arise.
David Riding,
Engineer and co-founder, Heatle
In the pandemic when everyone was experiencing supply chain issues for even grocery store items, Nordic’s off-the-shelf certified product was a godsend. Especially at the price-point and availability. Because of Nordic's work with Zephyr and the open source community, we were able to deliver remote patient monitoring to thousands of vulnerable patients across the country during the pandemic.
Sid Kandan,
CEO, Stel Life
TagBox products including the Tag360-ID contact tracing solution are built on Nordic’s proven, open ecosystem of low power wireless connectivity solutions. This ecosystem along with price and availability has made Nordic’s product our Bluetooth LE radio of choice. Excellent documentation and a well-supported online community have helped us with debugging/reprogramming both during development and in the field.
Sameer Singh,
Co-founder and VP Engineering, TagBox
RAM-1 enables the remote monitoring of smart electricity grids, and both Nordic’s sales and engineering support significantly accelerated the development process. We selected the nRF9160 SiP based on a detailed evaluation of all its capabilities, but the key factor was the nRF Connect SDK’s support for the Zephyr RTOS ecosystem. It not only streamlined development, it also ensured the design process followed best practice, and that we arrived at a neat and testable solution.
Luka Mustafa,
CEO, IRNAS
Many hardware factors led us to choose the nRF52833 for our Erika USB microphone including the radio sensitivity and low power consumption, while from a software point of view without Nordic’s Enhanced ShockBurst (ESB) technology our wireless mic would simply not exist. Yes, Nordic’s development boards, reference design and SDK are invaluable, cutting our time to market up to 40 percent, but timely and comprehensive support is really what sets Nordic apart.
Mike Schell,
President, Convergent Design
The partnership and support received from Nordic for over 8 years has made Laird Connectivity fully aligned with Nordic as a company, its hardware, software and support capabilities. Laird sees Nordic as the premier Bluetooth LE SoC vendor globally and the nRF5340 is pushing that envelope even further with its dual core architecture, excellent multi wireless radio capabilities, and next generation security capabilities.
Jonathan Kaye,
Senior Director – Product Management, Laird Connectivity
It's not rocket science to put a Nordic chip, a battery, and temperature sensors inside a housing, but for the Warmie device to effectively perform temperature and infection monitoring of both post-operative and COVID-19 patients, it needs to capture this data on a continuous basis. The nRF52810’s incredibly low power consumption means we can collect data non-stop throughout the day and still achieve a remarkable battery life of around 4000 hours.
Professor Tomasz Banasiewicz, M.D. PhD,
Founder, Warmie
LTE-M and NB-IoT is the future. I've been watching these technologies evolve over the years, and have also been a happy Nordic customer since 2013, so selecting Nordic’s cellular IoT solution for the nRF9160 Feather was an obvious choice. If developers using the development board need support, DevZone is a great resource. One of Nordic’s engineers spent a lot of time working out an issue with me, which is surprising as most companies couldn’t care less. I look forward to working with Nordic for many more years.
Jared Wolff
Owner and Founder, Circuit Dojo
What separates our oral health technology from anything currently available is the ability to continually monitor pH levels without disrupting the patient’s lifestyle, and during development Nordic as a company has been absolutely awesome. The Software Development Kit and testing applications were unexplainably helpful, and I can receive incredibly detailed responses to my questions from Nordic engineers, often in less than 24 hours. Nordic is certainly our top choice without a second thought.
Noah Hill
COO and Co-Founder, Lura Health
What makes Nordic’s products so good is that each SoC provides an all-in-one solution. When we started designing the world’s first capacitive fuel level sensor powered by Bluetooth Low Energy, we selected the nRF52832 SoC because it offered us simple implementation, high functionality, and performance in a cost effective package. All of Nordic’s solutions are designed to make development simple. The SoftDevice is a mature, stable and proven Bluetooth LE protocol, and the SDK provides a quick and easy start to development while keeping the application and protocol software separated. The abundance of available development tools is incredibly valuable.
Vladimir Dmitriev
Co-Founder and Chief Developer, Escort
Apricity Ara reduces the need for peaking power plants (power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand for electricity) by connecting domestic water heaters to utilities over cellular communications. This allows utilities to remotely monitor and, during peak energy demand, reduce the standby power of heaters not in use. What we got with Nordic’s nRF9160 SiP was a highly reliable, plug-and-play cellular solution that is perfect for energy companies. Working through the development of this pioneering application with Nordic was also very rewarding. Go to Nordic’s technical team with a challenge and their eyes light up with excitement at the chance to solve it.
Jacob C Betcher
COO, Apricity
Mobii Systems has been using Nordic technology in its designs for the past 12 years, and I have been designing with Nordic solutions since 2003. It is a brand we have learnt to trust for reliability, performance, and availability, which is in part why we selected the nRF52840 SoC for our world first Active Transponder and Active Pod sports timing devices. Because of the high quality of technical information and reference designs, we seldomly use development kits and proceed straight to prototype design. We have never made use of application engineers, which is a great indication on the quality of information available to designers.
Michael Thacker
Lead Hardware Engineer, Mobii Systems
We selected Nordic for its broad range of products, ensuring our customers can select from a wide range of solutions based on their unique needs. The Nordic DevZone also provides an invaluable platform for developers to exchange development experience, while the wealth of software examples allows us to accelerate customized development. All in all, it gives us the confidence to make a good product
Liu Jiahang
CTO, Tangshan Hongjia
Speaking frankly, we are very happy with this collaboration between Panasonic and Nordic in serving the needs of today's complex IoT applications. Nordic Semiconductor's nRF52840 SoC perfectly meets the PAN1780 module's demanding requirements. It enables us to finally offer our customers a Nordic-based solution they have been continuously asking for, and moreover, underlines a common approach and mindset when it comes to taking the IoT to the next level.
Lara von Rhein,
Product Marketing Manager, Wireless Connectivity at Panasonic
When we started developing the Wattman ecosystem, the nRF52840 SoC was one of the very few chipsets in production that supported Thread so it was an obvious choice, but we were initially nervous about the level of support we would receive in India if we selected Nordic. However the Nordic team was very responsive to all our queries, and the level of communication we received quickly removed any inhibitions we had.
Amarjeet Singh,
Co-Founder and CTO of Zenatix
The SigCell cellular IoT platform is all about getting sensor-to-Cloud IoT solutions into production fast, and reducing time to market for companies that need to carefully manage resources, costs, or schedules. Our module based on Nordic’s nRF9160 SiP not only allows companies to perform edge computing and AI without a lot of the upfront cost, but because Nordic helped us get the necessary certifications in advance we have also greatly reduced both the risk and development time for customers.
Steve Poulsen,
President, Signetik.
Nordic Semiconductor MCUs is one of our first choices when it comes to reliable on-board ultra-low-power application processing and RF communication. We at StalkIT are depending on delivering a high-quality internet-connected service for asset tracking and monitoring on time and on budget to our customers, and with Nordic´s excellent support and user community we are able to achieve it.
Marcos Arizti Texido,
CEO StalkIT AS
We chose Nordic because it gave us a combination of a very powerful microcontroller platform, along with the state of the art and latest Bluetooth stack all the while having the lowest energy consumption requirements.
Amol Palshikar,
Co-Founder - Plezmo
