Small Bluetooth Module MK01
- Nordic® Semiconductor nRF52832 SoC solution
- Bluetooth 5 (2Mbps CSA#2 Advertising Extensions)
- 512kB Flash and 64kB RAM
- Wide supply voltage range: 1.7 V to 3.6 V
- Full set of digital interfaces including SPI/2-wire/I²S/UART/PDM/QDEC
- NFC-A Tag
- Dimension: 10.0×10.0x2.0mm (with shield)
- 22 GPIOs
- Antenna (MK01A – Ceramic chip antenna MK01B – u.FL connector)

Product Instruction
MK01 series is a powerful, highly flexible, ultra low power tiny Bluetooth® 5 modules based on Nordic® Semiconductor nRF52832 SoC solution, which has a 32 bit Arm® Cortex™-M4 CPU with floating-point unit running at 64 MHz.
MK01 smallest Bluetooth module has an ultra-small size of 10mm x 10mm with 28 LGA (Land Grid Array) 0.4mm x 0.4mm pad pins providing 22 GPIOs (including 32.768 kHz crystal and reset pins) of nRF52832CIAA (WLCSP package).
MK01 series Bluetooth module has two different models — MK01A & MK01B.


MK01A
MK01A integrates a high-performance ceramic chip antenna.

MK01B
MK01B uses a u.FL connector and requires an external antenna.
Product Specifications
Detail | Description |
Bluetooth | |
Bluetooth version | Bluetooth 5.2 SoC,supporting Bluetooth Low Energy, Concurrent Central & Peripheral, 2M LE PHY, 1M LE PHY, Advertising Extensions, CSA #2, Bluetooth Mesh |
Security | AES-128 |
LE connections | Concurrent central, observer, peripheral, and broadcaster roles with up to twenty concurrent connections along with one observer and one broadcaster |
Radio | |
Frequency | 2360MHz - 2500Mhz |
Modulations | GFSK at 1 Mbps, 2 Mbps data rates |
Transmit power | +4 dBm maximum |
Receiver sensitivity | -96 dBm sensitivity in Bluetooth Low Energy mode |
Antenna | MK01A - Ceramic chip, Peak Gain: 0.9dBi / Efficiency: -1.8dB (66%) MK01B - Peak Gain: 3dBi / Efficiency: 85% (2.4GHz 3dBi Terminal Mount Dipole Antenna) |
Advertsing distance @1Mbps | MK01A - more than 80 meters MK01B - more than 150 meters using 2.4GHz 3dBi Terminal Mount Dipole Antenna |
Current consumption | |
TX only (DCDC enabled, 3V) @ +4dBm / 0dBm / -4dBm / -20dBm / -40dBm | 7.5mA / 5.3mA / 4.2mA / 3.2mA / 2.7mA |
TX only @ +4dBm / 0dBm / -4dBm / -20dBm / -40dBm | 16.6mA / 11.6mA / 9.3mA / 7.0mA / 5.9mA |
RX only (DCDC enabled, 3V) @1Msps / 1Msps BLE | 5.4mA |
RX only @ 1Msps / 1Mbps BLE | 11.7mA |
RX only (DCDC enabled, 3V) @2Msps / 2Msps BLE | 5.8mA |
RX only @ 2Msps / 2Mbps BLE | 12.9mA |
System OFF mode(3V) | 0.3uA |
System OFF mode with full 64 kB RAM retention(3V) | 0.7uA |
System ON mode, no RAM retention, wake on RTC(3V) | 1.9uA |
Mechanical Design | |
Dimensions | Length: 10mm±0.2mm Width: 10mm±0.2mm Height: 2.0mm+0.1mm/-0.15mm |
Package | 36 LGA (Land Grid Array) pads |
PCB material | FR-4 |
Impedance | 50 Ω |
Hardware | |
CPU | ARM® Cortex®-M4 32-bit processor with FPU, 64 MHz |
Memory | 512 kB flash / 64 kB RAM |
Interfaces | 3xSPI master/slave with EasyDMA
2xI2C compatible 2-wire master/slave 22xGPIO 7x12 bit ADC UART (CTS/RTS) with EasyDMA I2S with EasyDMA PWM PDM NFC-A |
Power supply | 1.7V to 3.6V |
Operating temperature range | -40 to 85 ℃ |
Evaluation Board
MK01-KIT evaluation board is applicable for MK01A and MK01B mini Bluetooth® module. It is a full featured evaluation board that provides a complete I/O pin and debug pin(SWD) out to headers, external 32.768 kHz crystal setup, DC/DC regulator setup, power port over USB Type-C, NFC antenna FPC connector, one RESET button, one user button and one user RGB-LED. The evaluation boards also provide the option to be powered from a CR2032 coin cell battery and have current sense hole to allow for convenient current measurements.

Documentation
Type | Title | Date |
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Product Brief | MK01_Bluetooth_Module_Datasheet.pdf | 2022-12-29 |