nrf51822 UART and SoftDevice enabled

[itd24]

We have a nrf51822 chip connected to an arduino-like device. We need to use UART for communication, but without firmware modification the master chip doesn't support USART (no default CTS and RTS pins).

In the main UART example code on GIT I read, that hardware flow control has to be enabled when using a softdevice on the nrf51822 chip. Is that actually the case?

[RK]

No that's not the case, you can run without flow control, however your baud rate will be quite limited to ensure the constant softdevice interrupts don't cause buffer overruns.