Which examples use the Softdevice?

[RK]

I'm getting started and have an overwhelming amount of stuff downloaded which I'm trying to make sense of.

Which of the examples in the nrf51 SDK use the Softdevice and which don't? Or do they all, or do none of them?

I think I'm basically trying to understand what the Softdevice is and where it fits into the picture.

Is the Softdevice the entire BLE stack and you can't in any practical sense write anything using BLE without it, or is it a convenience layer on top of the BLE stack but you can still access the BLE stack and write BLE services without using the Softdevice?

[RK]

Thanks - that's what I thought was the most likely. Since I care more about the BLE stuff than anything else right now, I'll concentrate on those examples and when I come to worrying about using the other hardware on the device, go look at the others.