Development hardware for Zigbee

Why Nordic?

For your Zigbee product

Nordic Semiconductor has low-power wireless in its DNA. With decades of experience in ultra-low-power wireless and a position as the Bluetooth LE market leader, we have applied that expertise to multiprotocol technologies like Zigbee.

Our nRF54L Series SoCs are the recommended platform for new Zigbee designs. They can run Bluetooth LE and Zigbee concurrently using dynamic multiprotocol, with radio time autonomously time-sliced between protocols. Across the nRF54L Series, a consistent hardware and software architecture means excellent code portability and strong software reusability, which can reduce your time to market.

All nRF54L Series SoCs support over-the-air device firmware upgrades (OTA DFU), enabling product updates and feature additions in the field.

Our software platform for Zigbee development is the nRF Connect SDK, supporting our nRF52, nRF53, nRF54L, nRF70, and nRF91 Series devices. It integrates the Zephyr RTOS together with a wide range of samples, protocol stacks, libraries, and hardware drivers. Zigbee R23 support, based on DSR's ZBOSS stack, is available as an nRF Connect SDK Add-on.

Development hardware

We offer development kits containing what you need to get started with your Zigbee development. Our kits make all features and GPIOs of the SoCs available to you, including NFC. All kits have user-programmable buttons and LEDs, and come with an on-board debugger. Note that the nRF54L15 Tag and nRF52840 Dongle do not include a debugger. We recommend using a development kit for development.

We also offer the nRF52840 Dongle, complementary hardware to the nRF Connect for Desktop tool. It supports Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth mesh, Thread, and Zigbee. It can be a low-cost alternative when doing large-scale testing or when size is important.

Our Power Profiler Kit II (PPK2) is a tool for measuring current consumption. Use it with any of our development kits, prototyping platforms, or your own designs. PPK2 works from sub-µA to 1 A and can log up to 500 days.

Development kits for the nRF54L Series

nRF54L15 DK

Affordable, versatile development kit for evaluating and developing with the nRF54L15, nRF54L10, and nRF54L05 wireless SoCs.

nRF54LM20 DK

Affordable, versatile development kit for evaluating and developing with the nRF54LM20A wireless SoC.

Development kit for the nRF52 and nRF53 Series

nRF52840 DK

The nRF52840 DK is a Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Zigbee development kit for the nRF52811 and nRF52840 SoCs.

nRF5340 DK

The nRF5340 DK is the development kit for the nRF5340 SoC.

Complimentary hardware

nRF54L15 Tag

nRF54L15 Tag is a compact, dual-antenna prototyping platform designed for prototyping Bluetooth asset tags and trackers. nRF54L15 Tag is optimized for Bluetooth Channel Sounding-enabled item tracking using Google Find Hub and Apple Find My networks.

Nordic Thingy:53

The Thingy:53 is a multi-sensor prototyping platform designed for rapid wireless IoT and embedded machine learning development
The Matter weather station on Thingy:53 is is matter certified

nRF52840 Dongle

The nRF52840 Dongle is complementary hardware to the nRF Connect for Desktop. It supports Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Zigbee.

Power Profiler Kit II

The Power Profiler Kit II is an easy-to-use tool for measuring and optimizing power consumption for embedded solutions.