nrf52840 Q1AABB ble advertising problem

RE: nrf52840 Q1AABB ble advertising problem

MartinBL — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 15:15:29 GMT

They should all work on Rev B as well.

RE: nrf52840 Q1AABB ble advertising problem

Abhay Joshi — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:44:33 GMT

Hello MartinBL, Are the examples from the latest SDK compatible with the Engineering Revision B or are there some modifications to be made?

RE: nrf52840 Q1AABB ble advertising problem

MartinBL — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 09:58:59 GMT

EDIT 08.01.2017:

There are some important changes made to the QIAABB device. In QIAAAA the DEC4 and DEC6 pins were connected internally in the IC. The architects figured out that this wasn't ideal and the decoupling pins now have to be connected externally. Have a look at the reference schematics from the OPS 0.5.0:

and compare it to the schematics in OPS v0.5.1:

If you haven't made this change in your layout, the radio (and hence your BLE advertising) won't work properly, but the rest of your application will.

These changes are poorly documented. I suppose it should have been mentioned here and the schematics in OPS 0.5.1 still shows part number QIAAAA. I'll make an internal report and get it updated. Sorry for the inconvenience.

@endnode is right. s140 5.0.0-2 alpha is starting to get old and is not tested on nrf52840 QIAABB which is the Engineering B revision of the IC. Unfortunately the Software Compatibility Matrix hasn't been updated with the latest IC revision yet. Even the S140 v6.0.0-6.alpha hasn't been thoroughly tested on Engineering B either, but they should do for development. We will release a compatible Softdevice and update the compatibility matrices as soon as possible.

RE: nrf52840 Q1AABB ble advertising problem

endnode — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:57:44 GMT

My guess is that S140 isn't ready for changed errata as it is visible from Compatibility matrix on Infocenter so you will need to wait for next SD release (or maybe Nordic support team will pull some magic start-up lines here to make it work). Still taking assumption that something which wasn't released as compatible with EngB revision will work out of the box is pretty bold;)