nRF5 SDK 12 & nRF52 Preview DK

[Olivier]

I have been trying to use nRF5 SDK 12 on nRF52 Preview DK by using PCA10040 instead of the removed PCA10036. But example 'ble_app_hrs' that uses SoftDevice S132 v3.0 do not work on nRF52 Preview DK.

• Is it expected?

• the same example from nRF5 SDK 11 which still officially support PCA10036 works and uses SoftDeviceS132 v2.0. If I managed to add SoftDevice S132 v2.0 to SDK 12 do you think it would work? Would it be feasible?

[FormerMember]

The chip on PCA 10036 is an Engineering A chip, and the chip on PCA 10040 v. 1.1 is a revision 1 chip, see this IC revision overview table.

If you compare the errata list for Engineering A and revision 1, it may explain why examples working on PCA 10040 doesn't work on PCA 10036. Also, for the same reason, we do not recommend to use PCA 10036 for development. Therefore, I would not recommend you to port SDK 12 examples to S132 v.2.0.0, to make them work with PCA10036.