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nRF54L Series Express Course

Course description

The nRF54L Series Express is a self-paced, optionally hands-on online course designed to give you a deep understanding of Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF54L Series of ultra-low-power, high-performance SoCs. All wireless SoCs in the nRF54L Series integrate an ultra-low-power multiprotocol 2.4 GHz radio and full MCU (Microcontroller Unit) functionality, featuring a 128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor and a comprehensive peripheral set.

This course provides a comprehensive exploration of the hardware architecture, MCU features, power management capabilities, system peripherals, and security mechanisms that define the nRF54L Series.

You will learn about the available SoCs in the Series, their reference hardware layout and supported wireless protocols. This course also covers key components like the 2.4 GHz radio transceiver, Arm Cortex-M33 CPU, RISC-V coprocessor, peripherals, event system (DPPI), EasyDMA, GPIO ports, pin-planning, and security features.

This course requires no hardware or software to follow along. The final lesson is optionally hands-on, focusing on evaluating power consumption and performance in real-world use cases. You can try it yourself with the recommended hardware, but the lesson is equally informative without it.

What you'll learn

Understand the architecture, key features, and performance capabilities of the nRF54L Series SoCs.
Understand the nRF54L Series power domains, intra/cross-domain communication (event system, DPPI, PPIB), and peripherals' EasyDMA RAM access without CPU involvement.
Explore the internal peripherals such as Axon NPU, GRTC and FLPR coprocessor, and their roles in timing and efficiently managing/offloading tasks that require real-time attention.
Gain a practical understanding of the security features built into the nRF54L for protecting application integrity.
Learn about the different SDK options available, RTOS and bare-metal configuration when developing with the nRF54L Series.
Evaluate power consumption and performance using real-world scenarios, as well as tools such as the board configurator, datasheet, OPP, and PPK2.

Who should enroll in this course?

The course is for anyone interested in learning what the nRF54L Series has to offer. It’s ideal for system designers and hardware engineers evaluating the nRF54L Series SoCs.

Estimated time

An estimate of about two to three hours in total is needed to finish this course.

Learning Objectives

Review the architecture, performance, power profiles, and variant features of the nRF54L Series SoCs

Understand the high-level architecture of the nRF54L Series SoCs.
Evaluate and compare the processing performance of the nRF54L Series relative to the nRF52 Series.
Analyze power consumption profiles in various operating modes.
Identify the available SoC variants, their application spaces and supported wireless protocols.

Understand the connectivity and resource architecture of the nRF54L Series, including power domains, event-driven communication and GPIO capabilities

Gain a working understanding of the power domains structure in the nRF54L Series.
Learn about intra- and cross-domain communication(event system), DPPI, and PPIB.
Examine how peripherals access memory through easyDMA without CPU intervention.
Understand the GPIO ports’ capabilities and essential pin planning rules on the nRF54L Series.

Examine the available peripherals, system clocks and regulators

Comprehend the architecture and function of key nRF54L Series peripherals.
Learn about the Fast Lightweight Peripheral Processor and its role in efficiently managing/offloading tasks that require real-time attention.
Explore the role of system clocks and regulators in power efficiency.

Dive into the nRF54L Series security architecture, covering secure boot, key management, cryptography, hardware isolation, and tamper protection

Learn about the basic concepts of information security in embedded devices.
Understand the concepts of secure boot and secure attestation and how they work in the nRF54L Series.
Gain information about key management and secure key storage.
Learn about the Cryptographic Accelerator Engine (CRACEN) and what features differentiate it from the cryptos in previous series devices.
Get an understanding of the concept of hardware isolation in the nRF54L Series.
Evaluate tamper detection and resilience against physical attacks.

Explore firmware development and evaluation tools for the nRF54L Series, including RTOS and bare-metal options, power profiling techniques

Explore the firmware development options for the nRF54L Series, including both RTOS-based and bare metal applications, and understand each’s capabilities and limitations.
Get familiar with key Nordic tools that developers can use for evaluating and debugging Bluetooth LE projects.
Learn how to use the Online Power Profiler (OPP) to predict power consumption for different real-world use cases.
Learn to measure power consumption with the Power Profiler Kit II (PPK2) and compare results with the datasheet and OPP for different real-world use cases.

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