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nRF51822 Mac address

Is the default Mac address inside nRF51822 purchased from IEEE?

  • No, the default MAC address that is programmed into the FICR registers of the nRF51822 during production is a randomly generated static address. From the Bluetooth Core specification, Volume 6 Part B, Section 1.3 DEVICE ADDRESS

    A static address is a 48-bit randomly generated address and shall meet the following requirements:

    • The two most significant bits of the static address shall be equal to ‘1’
    • All bits of the random part of the static address shall not be equal to ‘1’
    • All bits of the random part of the static address shall not be equal to ‘0’

    A device may choose to initialize its static address to a new value after each power cycle. A device shall not change its static address value once initialized until the device is power cycled.

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    Bjørn

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