Newbie field update questions

RE: Newbie field update questions

Ole Morten — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:32:13 GMT

As I said, I'd recommend you to discuss future solutions with our sales manager for your area, as he is in a good position to take feedback and also inform about what is currently planned. Send me a PM with your location if you don't have his contact information.

RE: Newbie field update questions

Neil Thiessen — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 01:39:58 GMT

That's what I was afraid of. Unfortunately, I don't have any free pins on my host microcontroller, even the SWD pins are being repurposed to drive status LEDs, and even then the software would be non-trivial. If I could make a suggestion, some kind of built in bootloader would make a great addition to an otherwise great chip. For example, my host microcontroller, an LPC11U35, has a boot ROM with both a UART and USB-MSD bootloader which makes field upgrades trivial to implement.

RE: Newbie field update questions

Ole Morten — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:45:56 GMT

In general we are confident that the production versions of S110 are stable enough to not upgrade it. However, if you want to be able to push new Bluetooth features to your device, you may still have to do so.

You should talk to our sales manager for your area for information on future plans, but the only current option is to implement the SWD interface on your host CPU and then use this to upgrade the softdevice. This is possible, but will require some engineering effort, as the SWD interface is rather complex. You may however be able to use some open source library or similar for this, but this isn't something we've tried or have lots of experience with.