[CIS][SDK3.2.1] nRF5340 with SDK 3.2.1 periodically misses CIS events from Pixel 10 Phone - clicks in audio

I have a nRF5340 module with an application built using SDK 3.2.1.

The nRF5340 is acting as a CIS Peripheral.

It has an ACL connection and a CIS connection with a Pixel 10 Phone acting as a Central and sending audio over the CIS.

CIS configuration:

  • ISO Interval = 10 ms
  • NSE = 2
  • BN C to P = 1
  • BN P to C = 0
  • MAX PDU C to P = 40
  • PHY C to P = 2M
  • PHY P to C = 1M

Sniffer capture of the CIS_REQ packet:

The Audio received on the nRF5340 has some clicks in it.

These are some captures from the sniffer (Teledyne LeCroy Sodera) which showed that the nRF5340 periodically misses some CIS events form the Pixel 10 phone.

The nRF53 also acts as Central for a Peripheral device, on an ACL connection, with a very high Peripheral Latency, around 80.

Please see below and example of the nRF5340 not responding to a CIS event from the PIxel 10, and the Pixel 10 repeating the payload in both subevents of the CIS.

I noticed that the missed CIS events seem to happen immediately after an ACL event with the other device.

Is it possible tat the nRF5340 prioritizes the ACL over the CIS and that is why it is missing the CIS event?

Technically, it has enough time to figure out that the Peripheral did not answer and catch at least the retransmission from the second CIS subevent which is ~1.6 ms from the end of the ACL packet.

The clicks were not audible in the previous SDK we used, 3.1.1. Has the behavior changed since then?

If this is the cause of the missed CIS is it possible to configure the device to always prioritize the CIS over ACL (maybe with the exception of special situations like connection update instants)?

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  • Thanks  .

    I am mainly interested to know if that secondary, lower importance ACL may be prioritized over the CIS and that is the reason the nRF5340 does not respond.

    Meanwhile, as a mitigation for this I am considering making the ACL interval a multiple of 7.5 ms and 10 ms to avoid overlaps completely with Audio (CIS in this case) since these are the 2 most common used ISO Intervals by the Audio profiles. We control the connection interval and the scheduling because the nRF5340 is the Central on the secondary ACL.

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