S332 Network processor firmware?

[dlabun]

Please excuse my ignorance, My company is designing in the nRF52832 for our first product using both ANT and BLE. From looking at the documentation on thisisant.com there is the network processor firmware so you can use an external MCU instead of trying to develop directly on the nRF51422. Is this possible with the nRF52832? We're using up most of the IOs on our current Atmel MCU so developing sole on the nRF52832 does not look possible.

[Øyvind Karlsen]

Hi,

Using two MCUs will significantly affect your Bill of Material, and the nRF52 is a powerful MCU, is this absolutely necessary? You could for example consider IO extenders instead.

The nRF52 supports serialization, however we do not have examples ready for serialization with ANT, you can find documentation for serialization with BLE here.

Best regards,

Øyvind

[dlabun]

Hi Øyvind,

For the time being it is not possible to port our code over to the nRF52, we really need to stick with having the ANT and BLE radio on a separate chip. We are also looking at the nRF51422 with the S330 softdevice but again there's no documentation on using the network processor firmware.

Thanks, Doug