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Broad portfolio of ANT SoCs

Adding ANT connectivity to your product?

We offer a broad portfolio of wireless multiprotocol System-on-Chips (SoCs) supporting the ANT wireless protocol. All our SoCs are extremely advanced and power efficient, but all have different feature sets and memory configurations. Our customers select us because we offer high quality SoCs with ultra-low power consumption, ANT protocol stacks with excellent interoperability and easy-to-use software and tools. The complete solution for building end-products with ANT connectivity. In addition, we offer free technical support for anyone, guiding you through the whole product development process.

Our solution is an ideal fit for a wide range of ultra low power wireless applications, including sensors and hubs for sports, fitness and healthcare products.

Explore our ANT solutions below!

Best-in-class ANT SoCs

ANT flagship SoC

The nRF5340 SoC is our ANT flagship. It is the world’s first wireless SoC with two Arm® Cortex®-M33 processors. The combination of two flexible processors and the advanced feature set makes it the ideal choice for advanced ANT applications. The nRF5340 is an all-in-one SoC, including a superset of the most prominent nRF52® Series features. Features like Bluetooth® 5.3, high-speed SPI, QSPI, USB, up to 105 °C operating temperature, and more, are combined with more performance, memory and, integration, while minimizing current consumption. It also offers security features such as trusted execution, root-of-trust, and secure key storage.

nRF52 Series

The nRF52 Series consists of seven multiprotocol SoCs that integrate a powerful yet efficient 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 CPU. Flash memory range from 192 KB to 1024 KB while RAM range from 24 KB to 256 KB. The nRF52 Series offers simpler cost-effective options and highly advanced options, all with ultra-low power consumption. All nRF52 Series SoCs can run the ANT protocol, but we currently have solutions for the nRF52810, nRF52832, and nRF52840 SoCs. 

Concurrent ANT and Bluetooth Low Energy support

The more advanced nRF52 Series SoCs can run the ANT and Bluetooth LE protocols concurrently. The radio time is time-sliced and shared between the protocols. The scheduling is autonomous and connections are maintained. Leverage the interoperability of our Bluetooth LE stack and let a Bluetooth LE device, such as a smartphone, interact with the ANT network.

Comparison of our ANT SoCs


 nRF5340   nRF52840
nRF52832  nRF52810
 CPU  128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33
 +
 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33
 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 with FPU  64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 with FPU  64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4
Flash  1 MB
 +
 256 KB
 1 MB  512/256 KB  192 KB
 RAM  512 KB
 +
 64 KB
 256 KB  64/32 KB  24 KB
 Arm TrustZone  Yes  Yes    
 Arm CryptoCell   312  310    
 Root-of-Trust  Yes  Yes    
 Secure key storage  Yes      
 High-Speed SPI  Yes  Yes
 
 TWI/SPI/UART  4xTWI/SPI/UART +TWI/SPI/UART  2xTWI/SPI, SPI, 2xUART  2xTWI/SPI, SPI, UART  TWI, SPI, UART
 QSPI  Yes  Yes    
 USB  Yes  Yes    
 PWM, PDM, I2S  Yes  Yes  Yes  PWM, PDM
 ADC, Comparator  Yes  Yes  Yes  ADC, COMP
 Operating temperature  -40 to 105 °C  -40 to 85 °C  -40 to 85 °C  -40 to 85 °C
 Supply voltage range  1.7 to 5.5 V  1.7 to 5.5 V  1.7 to 3.6 V  1.7 to 3.6 V
 Packages  7x7 mm aQFN94
 (48 GPIOs)
 
 4.4x4.0 mm WLCSP95
 (48 GPIOs)

 7x7 mm aQFN73
 (48 GPIOs)
 
 3.5x3.6 mm WLCSP94
 (48 GPIOs)
 6x6 mm QFN48
 (32 GPIOs)
 
 3.0x3.2 mm WLCSP50
 (32 GPIOs)
 6x6 mm QFN48
(32 GPIOs)

5x5 mm QFN32
(16 GPIOs)

2.48x2.46 mm WLCSP33
(15 GPIOs)

ANT flagship

nRF5340 SoC

Dual-core Bluetooth 5.4 SoC supporting Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, Thread and Zigbee

128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 CPU with
1 MB Flash + 512 KB RAM
64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 CPU with
256 KB Flash + 64 KB RAM
Bluetooth Low Energy
Bluetooth Direction Finding
Bluetooth mesh
Thread, Zigbee
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NFC
Advanced security
USB, QSPI, HS-SPI
105 °C extended operating temperature
1.7-5.5 V supply voltage range