Support for SDK V13 and S332 soft device

[Paul Dunn]

I am currently working on a project that uses an nrf52832, SDK V11, and the S332 soft device. I am in the process of migrating to SDK 12.2.0. With the release of SDK 13, I am now wondering if I should continue migration to SDK 12.2.0, or migrate to SDK13. (This product is in development, and I could get by without 332 soft device support for a bit IF I knew it was soon to be available.)

• When will SDK V13 support the S332 soft device?
• Is the plan to support both SDK V12 and V13 in parallel? For how long?
• It appears the migration from SDK 12 to 13 is relatively minor, especially compared to the SDK 11 to 12 migration. Is that true, or am I missing something?

Thanks for the support

[tesc]

Hi Paul,

One of the main new features of SDK 13 is support for nRF52840 (s140 SoftDevice).

At the moment it supports SoftDevices s132 and s212 versions 4, and s140 version 5. s332 should work almost right out of the box when it comes, although the SDK does not currently have any mixed examples for BLE + ANT. The API changes are mainly additions, not changes or removals.

Since you are already migrating from SDK 11 you might just as well go to SDK 13. There are some new features and bug fixes. See release notes (bottom of that page) and migration guide for details.

Regards, Terje

[Paul Dunn]

Terge, Is there an expected date of release for the S332 soft device for SDK V13? Without that, I'll have to stay with SDK 12 for now.....

Thanks, Paul

[tesc]

I do not have a concrete date, but I would expect it to be within a couple of weeks.

[rct42]

Terje,

Do you have an update on when a version of S332 will come out that operates with SDK V13?

Also from your post above, it sounds like S332 v2 sort of works with SDK V13. Can someone verify this?

We're in the annoying situation where we need ANT+ and BLE concurrently on one device (i.e., S332 V2 + SDK V12.1) and on another device we need to support multiple central and peripheral BLE connections (i.e., S132 V4 + SDK V13). Since these devices share common code, we're having to wrap two different versions of the NRF SDK!