RE: Use Smart Beacon Firmware in nRF51422

cloudline — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:52:31 GMT

Great! Thanks for the info Stefan. Will definitely try that.

RE: Use Smart Beacon Firmware in nRF51422

Stefan Birnir Sverrisson — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:58:31 GMT

You should be able to run the beacon example in the nRF51 SDK under \Nordic\nrf51_sdk_v5_2_0_39364\nrf51822\Board\nrf6310\s110\ble_app_beacon on your nRF51422 device. nRF51422 is compatible with all Nordic's softdevices, see this thread.

The beacon example firmware in the nRF51 SDK is made for the S110 peripheral softdevice. However, you can run the Beacon application (as any other BLE peripheral application in the nRF51 SDK) on the S310 softdevice with couple of modifications:

a) Change the path from /include/S110 to /include/S310

b) Change RAM and ROM settings

Nordic's latest S110 softdevice, v7.0.0, provides firmware upgrade as well as softdevice upgrade DFU. There is no support for softdevice swapping though, you would need to connect a programmer in order to program a new softdevice. Current S310 v1.0.0 is based on S110 v6.0.0, which provides firmware upgrade DFU, but no softdevice upgrade DFU. The S310 softdevice is scheduled to support also softdevice upgrades in a few months time.