Nordic Semiconductor Tech Tour 2025: Key Technologies and Insights

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Nordic Tech Tour 2025 – a quick overview

This year our team represented by Katarzyna Gawior, Business Development Specialist, and our Developers Daniel Dunak and Wojciech Trzaska, took part in the Nordic Tech Tour EMEA 2025 conference held in Kraków.

The agenda was strongly hands-on:

• low power wireless IoT solutions
• the nRF54L Series and nRF Connect SDK
• nRF Connect Bare Metal on the nRF54L Series
• Power Management ICs
• Cellular IoT: NB-IoT, LTE-M1, DECT NR+, NTN & nRF Cloud services
• Low-Power Wi-Fi 6 for IoT applications

Everything was backed by live demos and plenty of time to talk directly with Nordic engineers about real-world implementation details.

We’re coming back with a few very concrete discoveries that can speed up our work and provide our clients with more comprehensive and diverse project implementation options.

Nordic Semiconductor Technologies – Our Key Insights

During the event, several technologies stood out as particularly important for the development of embedded products and IoT solutions.

Below, we present the solutions that we believe can add the most value to future projects.

1. Pinplanner

Pinplanner is a simple tool that can save time in Zephyr Devicetree work (https://pinplanner.app/)
It’s a web-based pin configuration tool for the nRF54L series with a genuinely user-friendly interface. In a few minutes you can select peripherals, map pins, and then generate ready-to-use DeviceTree for Zephyr.

From an engineering perspective, tools such as Pinplanner reduce the number of configuration errors and speed up board bring-up, especially in the early stages of development.

2. nRF Connect SDK Bare Metal

Nordic has ported the familiar SoftDevice model from nRF5 SDK into nRF Connect SDK, which means you can build simple BLE applications without Zephyr and without an RTOS.
For us, the biggest advantage of introducing this SDK is the ability to migrate projects using the nRF5 SDK Bare Metal more smoothly and quickly. The SDK allows existing projects to be transferred to newer Nordic devices (such as the nRF54L family) with significantly fewer architectural changes than if the code were completely rewritten based on Zephyr.

For teams responsible for maintaining long-lifecycle products based on the nRF5 SDK, this approach can significantly reduce the migration workload while providing access to Nordic’s latest hardware platforms.

3. nRF Cloud

We are quite excited about nRF Cloud. The biggest benefit is straightforward –  Nordic provides an integrated, ready-made cloud, so we don’t have to do that and maintain ourselves. Key capabilities that we see:
* FOTA
* debugging integrations (including support for tools like Memfault)
In practice, that means we can spend more time on application logic and product features and less time reinventing cloud infrastructure that Nordic already offers.

4. nRF9151 and NTN

It’s a compact, low-power SiP (12×11 mm) with an LTE-M / NB-IoT modem, GNSS, and DECT NR+ support. Compared to nRF9160, it’s smaller and optimized for power efficiency, while still offering a Cortex-M33 application core and solid memory resources for modern connected products.

What we’re especially interested in is Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) support. Nordic highlighted that nRF9151 is designed with LEO satellite connectivity in mind, including operation scenarios where devices can switch between terrestrial cellular and satellite links.For us this is a very practical direction. NTN could significantly improve cloud connectivity in several projects that operate in weak-coverage or remote environments. It’s a promising step toward reliable IoT communication everywhere, without having to fall back on complex alternative networks.

What Do These Technologies Bring to Embedded Software Development?

When we take a closer look at all the technologies showcased during the Nutdick Tech Tour 2025, it becomes clear that the dominant trend is the drive to simplify the development process.

With more accessible migration plans, ready-to-use cloud infrastructure, and better development tools and connectivity options, Nordic is making it easier than ever to create connected embedded products.

For engineering teams, this means faster development cycles, less effort required to support future features, and a shorter time to market.

Our Perspective as a Nordic Semiconductor Partner

Despite our extensive experience with Nordic Semiconductor technologies, events such as Nordic Tech Tour remain very important to us because they provide direct access to product development plans, engineering discussions, and practical implementation guidance.

For us, close contact with the Scandinavian ecosystem is a key element in delivering modern embedded solutions and helping customers make informed technology decisions.

Support for your Nordic project

If you are developing a product based on Nordic Semiconductor technologies, our team can provide you with support in the areas of embedded software development, the Zephyr real-time operating system, wireless connectivity, hardware design, and comprehensive product development.

Please feel free to contact us to discuss your project.