How to implement soft uart in Pca10028?

[Newbie]

Hello,

I am using pca10028 and sdk 12. I want to use 2 uart for my application but as per datasheet nrf51 has only one hardware uart. Can I implement soft uart on pca10028? I want to use both the uart at the same time so multiplexing will not help me.

Sdk_config.h New Text Document (3).txt

Main.c New Text Document (3).txt

Thanks, Shailav

[bjorn-spockeli]

Hi Shailav,

I am afraid that we do not have any examples showing how create a software-based("bit-banged") UART for the nRF51 Series. Have you considered using the nRF52840 that has two UARTs?

Best regards

Bjørn

[Newbie]

Hi, I am able to print something on RTT_viewer by implementing your suggestions but I also want to print the mac address, Rssi and adv data of nearby ble devices as I am using ble_app_uart_c(central) code. I am not able to see above data in rtt_viewer. My code snippet is as follows

const ble_gap_evt_adv_report_t * p_adv_report = &p_gap_evt->params.adv_report;
{
         // scan is automatically stopped by the connect
         err_code = bsp_indication_set(BSP_INDICATE_IDLE);
            APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
             NRF_LOG_INFO("Mac address %02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x\r\n",
               p_adv_report->peer_addr.addr[5],
               p_adv_report->peer_addr.addr[4],
               p_adv_report->peer_addr.addr[3],
               p_adv_report->peer_addr.addr[2],
               p_adv_report->peer_addr.addr[1],
               p_adv_report->peer_addr.addr[0]
            );

		NRF_LOG_INFO("Data: ");

	        for(i=0;i<17;i++)
		{
		     NRF_LOG_INFO("%02x", p_adv->data[i]);
		}
									
		NRF_LOG_INFO(" \r\nRSSI: %d\n", p_adv->rssi);							
}