SoftDevice Central Role Support

[Jonathan Gordon]

Is there a plan to support the BLE central role in the software stack?

As it is now, I absolutely cannot use the nRF51822 since the S110 stack does not support operating as a BLE central. However, I really like Nordic's support for open toolchains.

If support for this is planned, is there any kind of super-unofficial schedule for when that would be?

Thanks

[RK]

Have you looked at the S120 softdevice which does exactly that?

[Jonathan Gordon]

Hmm, that is a bit troubling. I am skeptical 6kB of RAM would be enough for my application. I find it a little unbalanced to offer 256kB of code space and only 16kB of RAM. Does it always leave only 6kB even if I only wanted to support 2 channels for example? I guess if it is statically compiled and linked the answer is yes, it will always take up that much room. Shame they don't release source code and allow us to specify build settings =P

Nonetheless, this is great news that it supports the central role and I will more than likely be purchasing a development kit now, before I was basically stuck with TI where they force you buy a $$$$ toolchain+IDE suite.