MAC address look up on SIG website

RE: MAC address look up on SIG website

Einar Thorsrud — Thu, 09 May 2019 12:10:46 GMT

Hi Leon,

We do not have any official guideline for how to program the public MAC address into the chip, but I will outline how they can do it:

Program the unique MAC address to flash during production. This could typically be placed in UICR, but that is not a requirement.
Configure the SoftDevice to use the MAC address by calling sd_ble_gap_addr_set() at application startup (after initializing the SoftDevice but before using any other BLE functionality).

Br,

Einar

RE: MAC address look up on SIG website

LeonWu — Thu, 09 May 2019 09:48:32 GMT

Hi Einar,

If customer bought SIG MAC address, do we have the guideline regarding how should they program into our chip?

Thanks!

Leon

RE: MAC address look up on SIG website

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 29 May 2018 07:38:08 GMT

Hi Leon,

We do not have any information about it, but the SIG has an overview here, which includes a link to IEEE.

Einar

RE: MAC address look up on SIG website

LeonWu — Mon, 28 May 2018 07:23:30 GMT

Hi Einar,

Thanks for your reply, already sync with customer. BTW, do we have any web link regarding buying address from SIG? Or any guideline?

Thanks!

Leon

RE: MAC address look up on SIG website

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 23 May 2018 12:10:55 GMT

Hi Leon,

The nRF does not have a public MAC address. We only provide set of random numbers in the FICR, DEVICEADDR[0] and DEVICEADDR[1] which can be combined as a random static address. This is not qualified in any way. There is no way to look this up on the SIG website.

The alternative would be a public address, where the range is registered with the SIG. This is not something we provide, but the customer can buy a range from the SIG and use it in their devices. It does not add real value in most projects though, as the random address is unique for all practical purposes.