Qualification of nRF52832

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Jay Tyzzer — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:41:58 GMT

Hi Bellpayla,

Last item first.. If you don't plan on running the nRF52832 with the Softdevice in Bluetooth LE then you do not need to do any kind of BT certification / End Product Listing with the BT Sig.

As you probably know, each customer needs to do the RED testing on their own.. We have done this on our reference board to be sure it will pass. See attached ...

The purpose of this report is to illustrate the test results for ETSI Receiver Blocking defined in ETSI EN 300 328 V2.1.1 (2016-11). The tests are executed in Nordic Semiconductor Test&Verification characterization laboratory in Trondheim and can only be used as an engineering evidence which is not meant to replace any ETSI conformance testing.

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../ETSI_5F00_RX_5F00_Blocking_5F00_Report_5F00_nRF52832_5F00_QFAA_5F00_v1.pdf

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

bellpayla — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:38:08 GMT

Hi @Jay Tyzzer, @Hung Bui, The test to ETSI EN 300 328 is still version 1.9.1 and not the latest v2.1.1. Do you have a test report for the latest version v2.1.1 for the NRF52832-QFAA chipset?

Also, after we get the relevant approvals CE (Europe) and FCC (US), do we still have to our product using the NRF52832-QFAA chip bluetooth certified even though we don't use the Bluetooth protocol but just operate in the same frequency band of 2.4GHz?

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Hung Bui — Wed, 10 May 2017 10:55:24 GMT

Thanks Jay :)

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Jay Tyzzer — Wed, 10 May 2017 01:53:43 GMT

I have replaced the duplicate file with the correct one. Both FCC and ETSI pre-scans are reflected in the files shown above.

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

a.o. — Fri, 05 May 2017 18:37:04 GMT

Both files appear to be ETSI.

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Jay Tyzzer — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:56:48 GMT

Nordic has run the nRF52832 thru FCC and ETSI testing. This test did not provide a FCC or ETSI certification number but was done to ensure that the units would test satisfactory in a real test at a testing facility when the Nordic reference design was followed.

nRF52832_QFAAABA0_FCC_report.pdf

nRF52832_QFAAABA0_ETSI_report.pdf

I have replace the attached file with the proper FCC Pre-test

Thanks!

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Sensorion — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:36:04 GMT

Just to close this up and share, final results for costs we have received are as follows:

Fees ~ $7000 Testing: FCC/ISED ~ $9500 Japan ~ $9000 RED ~ $30,000

Just in case anyone wants something to compare to. Also note that this does not include the fees to declare as a BLE device using the Nordic QDID.

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Hung Bui — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:39:03 GMT

Hi, Sorry I haven't done any testing with a test house, but I think it's in the ballpark of the fees. I guess you can try with another test house just for reference.

Regarding Bluetooth fee, I'm not sure that 5K is to do which test, could be a RFPHY retest. The fee for Bluetooth declaration that you pay Bluetooth SIG is listed here.

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Sensorion — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:28:55 GMT

Thank for the replys thus far. I have received a quote for testing and the bad news is:

10K FCC and IC
15K CE
15K TELEC
5K Bluetooth

Does this sound about right?

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Hung Bui — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:52:00 GMT

I believe the "intentional radiation and unintentional radiation testing" are for the FCC (and other common radio regulation). The QDIDs Nordic provides is barely for Bluetooth qualification, it's not related to FCC. You should contact a test house to discuss this matter.

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Roger Clark — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:30:58 GMT

Both intentional and unintentional radiation can be effected by your design, and the hardware components you use in your manufacturing

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Sensorion — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:05:35 GMT

Follow up question as I educate myself in this area,

As I now understand it, there are two main types of testing, intentional radiation and unintentional radiation testing. Also I believe that Noridic does the intentional radiation tests and that those are covered under the QDID. Is this correct?

This means that we end users only need to perform the tests for unintentional radiation tests, as well as any others such as ROHS or safety tests as required by the target country.

Anything I got wrong?

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Hung Bui — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:52:35 GMT

Hi Roger,

Yeah, I was thinking he was only asking about BLE qualification. For FCC we don't do any pre-qualification, maybe there are some module from our partner has FCC qualified. What we can do is to check and verify that it can pass FCC certification.

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Roger Clark — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:16:01 GMT

@Hung

I think @Sensorion was mainly referring to using the FCC approvals on the DK board as a method to speed up their FCC approval, as @Sensorion said their design is "based" on the DK.

However, I didnt reply, because AFIK, all boards that require FCC and other RF approvals need to be independently tested and those test results used as part of the application for FCC approval

RE: Qualification of nRF52832

Hung Bui — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:58:20 GMT

Hi Sensorion,

Our stack and chip is already qualified, you only need to do Declaration for your product. Please follow the instruction here: www.bluetooth.com/.../declare-your-product

The QDIDs for nRF52832 can be found here infocenter.nordicsemi.com/.../ble_qdid_qual_matrix.html