The chipset that can support Peripheral/Central role

[Lester]

Hi,

We would like to implement a scenario that need two BLE devices, One is Peripheral that able to broadcast and connectable, another one is Central that able to scanning and send a connect request.

According to the different roles, what chip can do the actions as above? Which development kit should we used? Please give us your comment.

Thanks, Lester

[Asbjørn]

The device named nRF51822 will be able to be both peripheral and central depending on which Softdevice is loaded into the chip. So the nRF51822 EK or DK would be the way to go.

[Lester]

Hi Asbjorn,

More questions as below:

1. What difference between nRF8001 and nRF8002?
2. Does nRF51822 can controlled by external MCU (like arduino)? if so, they communication through UART?
3. What difference between nRF51822 DK and EK?

Many thanks for your answer, it saved me a lot of time.

Thanks, Lester

[Lester]

One more question, does all of ble chip that include nRF8001, nRF8002 and nRF51822 are the single-mode ble devices?

[Lester]

Could we programmed the SoftDevices to nRF51822, if we only buy the nRF51822 EK or DK that doesn't include nRF51 series SoCs?

[Lester]

Hi Asbjorn,

Could you help to answer the questions above? Thanks a lot.

Lester