Pin assignments

Here we cover the pin assignments for each variant of the chip.

QFN48 pin assignments

Table 1. QFN48 pin assignments
Pin	Name	Type	Description
Left Side of chip
1	DEC1	Power	0.9 V regulator digital supply decoupling
2	P0.00 XL1	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O Connection for 32.768 kHz crystal (LFXO)
3	P0.01 XL2	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O Connection for 32.768 kHz crystal (LFXO)
4	P0.02 AIN0	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
5	P0.03 AIN1	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
6	P0.04 AIN2	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
7	P0.05 AIN3	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
8	P0.06	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
9	P0.07	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
10	P0.08	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
11	NFC1 P0.09	NFC input Digital I/O	NFC antenna connection General purpose I/O^.
12	NFC2 P0.10	NFC input Digital I/O	NFC antenna connection General purpose I/O^.
Bottom side of chip
13	VDD	Power	Power supply
14	P0.11	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
15	P0.12	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
16	P0.13	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
17	P0.14 TRACEDATA[3]	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Trace port output
18	P0.15 TRACEDATA[2]	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Trace port output
19	P0.16 TRACEDATA[1]	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Trace port output
20	P0.17	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
21	P0.18 TRACEDATA[0] / SWO	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Single wire output Trace port output
22	P0.19	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
23	P0.20 TRACECLK	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Trace port clock output
24	P0.21 nRESET	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Configurable as pin reset
Right Side of chip
25	SWDCLK	Digital input	Serial wire debug clock input for debug and programming
26	SWDIO	Digital I/O	Serial wire debug I/O for debug and programming
27	P0.22	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O^.
28	P0.23	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O^.
29	P0.24	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O^.
30	ANT	RF	Single-ended radio antenna connection
31	VSS	Power	Ground (Radio supply)
32	DEC2	Power	1.3 V regulator supply decoupling (Radio supply)
33	DEC3	Power	Power supply decoupling
34	XC1	Analog input	Connection for 32 MHz crystal
35	XC2	Analog input	Connection for 32 MHz crystal
36	VDD	Power	Power supply
Top side of chip
37	P0.25	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O^.
38	P0.26	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O^.
39	P0.27	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O^.
40	P0.28 AIN4	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O^. SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
41	P0.29 AIN5	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O^. SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
42	P0.30 AIN6	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O^. SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
43	P0.31 AIN7	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O pin^. SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
44	NC		No connect Leave unconnected
45	VSS	Power	Ground
46	DEC4	Power	1.3 V regulator supply decoupling Input from DC/DC regulator Output from 1.3 V LDO
47	DCC	Power	DC/DC regulator output
48	VDD	Power	Power supply
Bottom of chip
Die pad	VSS	Power	Ground pad Exposed die pad must be connected to ground (VSS) for proper device operation.

WLCSP ball assignments

Table 2. WLCSP ball assignments
Ball	Name		Description
A1	XC2	Analog input	Connection for 32 MHz crystal
A2	DEC2	Power	1.3 V regulator supply decoupling (Radio supply)
A3	P0.28 AIN4	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O^. SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
A4	P0.29 AIN5	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O^. SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
A5	P0.30 AIN6	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O^. SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
A6	DEC4	Power	1.3 V regulator supply decoupling Input from DC/DC converter. Output from 1.3 V LDO
A7	VDD	Power	Power supply
B2	XC1	Analog input	Connection for 32 MHz crystal
B3	P0.25	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O^.
B4	P0.27	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O^.
B5	P0.31 AIN7	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O^. SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
B6	DCC	Power	DC/DC converter output
B7	DEC1	Power	0.9 V regulator digital supply decoupling
C2	DEC3	Power	Power supply decoupling
C3	NC	N/A	Not connected
C4	VSS	Power	Ground
C5	VSS	Power	Ground
C6	P0.02 AIN0	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
C7	P0.01 XL2	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O Connection for 32.768 kHz crystal (LFXO)
D1	ANT	RF	Single-ended radio antenna connection
D2	VSS_PA	Power	Ground (Radio supply)
D3	P0.26	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O ^.
D6	P0.03 AIN1	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
D7	P0.00 XL1	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O Connection for 32.768 kHz crystal (LFXO)
E1	P0.24	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O^.
E2	P0.23	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O^.
E3	VSS	Power	Ground
E6	P0.04 AIN2	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
E7	P0.05 AIN3	Digital I/O Analog input	General purpose I/O SAADC/COMP/LPCOMP input
F1	SWDCLK	Digital input	Serial wire debug clock input for debug and programming
F2	P0.22	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O^.
F3	P0.19	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
F4	P0.11	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
F5	VSS	Power	Ground
F6	P0.07	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
F7	P0.06	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
G1	SWDIO	Digital I/O	Serial wire debug I/O for debug and programming
G2	P0.20 TRACECLK	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Trace port clock output
G3	P0.17	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
G4	P0.13	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
G5	NFC2 P0.10	NFC input Digital I/O	NFC antenna connection General purpose I/O^.
G6	NFC1 P0.09	NFC input Digital I/O	NFC antenna connection General purpose I/O^.
G7	P0.08	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
H1	P0.21 nRESET	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Configurable as pin reset
H2	P0.18 TRACEDATA[0]	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Trace port output
H3	P0.16 TRACEDATA[1]	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Trace port output
H4	P0.15 TRACEDATA[2]	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Trace port output
H5	P0.14 TRACEDATA[3]	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O Trace port output
H6	P0.12	Digital I/O	General purpose I/O
H7	VDD	Power	Power supply

GPIO usage restrictions

For more information on standard drive, see GPIO — General purpose input/output. Low frequency I/O is a signal with a frequency up to 10 kHz.

GPIO located near the radio

Radio performance parameters, such as sensitivity, may be affected by high frequency digital I/O with large sink/source current close to the Radio power supply and antenna pins.

Table 3 and Table 4 identify some GPIO that have recommended usage guidelines to maximize radio performance in an application.

Table 3. GPIO recommended usage for QFN48 package
Pin	GPIO	Recommended usage
27	P0.22	Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
28	P0.23
29	P0.24
37	P0.25
38	P0.26
39	P0.27
40	P0.28
41	P0.29
42	P0.30
43	P0.31

Table 4. GPIO recommended usage for WLCSP package
Pin	GPIO	Recommended usage
F2	P0.22	Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
E2	P0.23
E1	P0.24
B3	P0.25
D3	P0.26
B4	P0.27
A3	P0.28
A4	P0.29
A5	P0.30
B5	P0.31

NFC antenna pins

Two physical pins can be configured either as NFC antenna pins (factory default), or as GPIOs, as shown below.

Table 5. GPIO pins used by NFC
NFC pad name	GPIO
NFC1	P0.09
NFC2	P0.10

When configured as NFC antenna pins, the GPIOs on those pins will automatically be set to DISABLE state and a protection circuit will be enabled preventing the chip from being damaged in the presence of a strong NFC field. The protection circuit will short the two pins together if voltage difference exceeds approximately 2 V.

For information on how to configure these pins as normal GPIOs, see NFCT — Near field communication tag and UICR — User information configuration registers. Note that the device will not be protected against strong NFC field damage if the pins are configured as GPIO and an NFC antenna is connected to the device. The pins will always be configured as NFC pins during power-on reset until the configuration is set according to the UICR register.

These two pins will have some limitations when configured as GPIO. The pin capacitance will be higher on these pins, and there is some current leakage between the two pins if they are driven to different logical values. To avoid leakage between the pins when configured as GPIO, these GPIOs should always be at the same logical value whenever entering one of the device power saving modes. See Electrical specification.

¹ See GPIO located near the radio for more information.

² See NFC antenna pins for more information.

³ See GPIO located near the radio for more information.

⁴ See NFC antenna pins for more information.