Can I port nrf52832 code to nrf51822?

[Avi]

I have a code implementing a central on nrf52832

Can I run it on nrf51822? 

If not, what are the changes that I should do?

[Sigurd]

Hi,

It should in theory be possible. You could do the opposite of what is described here.

But what are the reasons for why you want to do this? There are lots of improvements in nRF52 compared to nRF51, so I would recommend to use the nRF52832. Also note that there is no nRF51 support in the newer SDK versions.

[Avi]

Adding a follow up question, will the code of nRF52832 (acting as central scanner) be good for nRF52840 as is? 

[Avi]

The reason for checking it is since I currently have 51822 modules and would like to test them. 

[Sigurd]

Avi said:

Adding a follow up question, will the code of nRF52832 (acting as central scanner) be good for nRF52840 as is?

It could be that you could get it to run as-is, but it could have some buggy behavior, so it would be recommended that you spend time porting it to nRF52840 and S140 if are planning to do more extensive testing.

Avi said:

The reason for checking it is since I currently have 51822 modules and would like to test them. 

If the goal is to just test if the modules work or not, then you could perhaps just use one of the BLE examples for the nRF51-series in SDK version 12.3 ?