Are the nRF51 devices supporting the full BLE 4.2 features?

[Jose Diaz]

I see in the information about the nRF51 talking about the support of 4.2. But it is not clear to me the extend of it. I am focus on the link layer and I would like to know if this layer support:

• long data packets
• resolution of priv addresses
• new filters for the ADV and SCAN state
• elliptic curve

Thanks

[Petter Myhre]

It is important to separate between the nRF51 which is hardware, and the SoftDevices, which is software.

SoftDevice S130 1.0.0 is Bluetooth 4.2 qualified, this means that it supports all mandatory features, but not all optional features.

• long data packets - I'm assuming this is on air packets, it is not supported
• resolution of priv addresses - whitelisting is supported, resolvable private addresses can be resolved in hardware
• new filters for the ADV and SCAN state - I don't understand this
• elliptic curve - This is for LE secure connections, not supported

We are working on a S130 2.0.0, it is currently released as an alpha, 2.0.0-7.alpha, supported by SDK 11.0.0-2.alpha.

For future features and schedules you should contact the regional sales manager for your area, if you don't know who it is, send me a PM with your location, and I will let you know.