zigbee and BLE in the same board

[Esteban Gutiérrez Correa]

Hello,

I want to make a device that use a Zigbee SoC and a nRF51822 for BLE, and I want to make it in the same board, that imply to have two antennas in the board.

I was wondering if someone could make me some recommendations for this project, it is important for my purpose to avoid the interference.

thanks for your recommendations.

[bjorn-spockeli]

Yes, the nRF5840 will be able to run the BLE stack and the 802.15.4 stack(with a Zigbee stack on top) concurrently.

[meetandyhere]

Hi Bjørn, this is a late follow-up to the thread, but I had a similar question. I am running Thread and BLE multi protocol on the NRF52840. Next, I want to try Zigbee and BLE multiprotocol. You mentioned that this is possible in principle. How difficult would it be in practice? We have legacy devices (~ 2014) that run a Zigbee application on the Ember chip and now we want to talk to them with the NRF52840. Would this involve taking our entire legacy Zigbee stack and running it (with minimal modifications) on the NRF52840? Does Nordic have any tools to facilitate this? Thanks!, Andy

[bjorn-spockeli]

@meetandyhere: Nordic is not going to develop any Zigbee stack in-house, so anyone who want to run Zigbee on a nRF52840 will have to use a 3rd party stack that has been ported to the nRF52840. So yes you will have to port your existing stack to the nRF52840 or use a 3rd party stack that's already been ported to the nR52840. My suggestion would be to contact you local Nordic Sales Manager as he might be able to point you to to a stack provider.