
Hardware description
6.11 NFC antenna interface
The nRF52 Preview Development Kit board supports a Near Field Communication (NFC) tag.
NFC-A listen mode operation is supported on nRF52832. The NFC antenna input is available on connector
P23
on the nRF52 Preview Development Kit board.
Figure 22: NFC antenna connector
NFC uses two pins, pin 11 (
NFC1
) and pin 12 (
NFC2
) to connect the antenna. These pins are shared with
GPIOs (
P0.09
and
P0.10
) and the PROTECT field in the NFCPINS register in UICR defines the usage of these
pins and their protection level against abnormal voltages. The content of the NFCPINS register is reloaded
at every reset.
Important:
The NFC pins are enabled by default. NFC can be disabled and GPIOs enabled by
defining the CONFIG_NFCT_PINS_AS_GPIOS variable in the project settings. This can be done
by defining the preprocessor symbol in Keil, go to:
Project > Options for Target > C/C++ >
Preprocessor Symbols > Define
. Here you can add the CONFIG_NFCT_PINS_AS_GPIOS variable
after NRF52.
This functionality can be removed by doing a nRFjprog --recover.
Pin 11 and pin 12 are by default configured to use the NFC antenna, but if pin 11 and pin 12 are needed as
normal GPIOs,
R25
and
R26
must be relocated to
R27
and
R28
.
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