Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF54L Series of wireless SoCs, including the previously announced nRF54L15, and the new nRF54L10 and nRF54L05, sets new industry standards, offering significantly enhanced efficiency, exceptional processing power, and versatile design options to meet a growing range of Bluetooth LE and IoT applications and customer demands.
All three devices in the new nRF54L Series integrate a 2.4GHz radio and MCU functionality, including CPU, memory, and peripherals, into a single ultra-low power chip, supporting applications from simple, high-volume products to more demanding and advanced designs. Key applications include wearables, smart rings, gaming controllers, HID devices, as well as medical devices, smart homes, and industrial IoT products. The nRF54L15 is well-suited for more demanding applications, while the nRF54L10 and nRF54L05 target high-volume applications such as smart tags, electronic shelf labels, asset trackers, and other cost-sensitive IoT devices.
“The launch of the nRF54L Series is a proud moment for Nordic. This new range of wireless SoCs establishes Nordic, already the world’s leading supplier of Bluetooth LE solutions, firmly at the forefront of low power wireless technology. Expanding the product series with the nRF54L10 and nRF54L05, alongside the nRF54L15, allows us to support a wide range of Bluetooth LE and IoT applications with greater flexibility and exceptional energy efficiency,” says Oyvind Strom, EVP Short-Range with Nordic Semiconductor.
The nRF54L Series SoCs all feature an Arm Cortex-M33 processor clocked at 128 MHz and an ultra-low-power 2.4GHz radio. They are designed to support advanced application software and wireless protocol stacks on a single chip, reducing the need for external MCUs or additional memory.
Within the series, the nRF54L15 offers the largest memory capacity with 1.5MB non-volatile memory (NVM) and 256KB RAM, ideal for demanding applications. nRF54L10 provides a mid-range option with 1.0MB NVM and 192kB RAM, while the nRF54L05 is optimized for less demanding, cost-sensitive applications, featuring 0.5MB NVM and 96kB RAM.
The product series offers up to 35 GPIOs and an ultra-compact 2.4 by 2.2 mm WLCSP package option that is 50 percent smaller than the comparable nRF52840. A range of nRF54L Series 6×6 pin-to-pin compatible QFN packages ensures design flexibility and manufacturing cost optimization.
In addition to its expanded memory options, the product series integrates a low-power RISC-V coprocessor, supporting advanced application requirements without additional external components, reducing BOM costs, and enabling compact designs.
The nRF54L Series supports Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth Mesh, Thread, Matter, Zigbee, Amazon Sidewalk, and 2.4 GHz proprietary protocols, with enhanced capabilities such as up to 4 Mbps data rate. The series is future-proofed to support Bluetooth 6.0, including Bluetooth Channel Sounding.