Production testing lower tester

[Sridhar Jonnavittula]

Hi,

We have our nrf52840 module going to be ready soon. For production testing, what is the recommended and capable lower tester and upper tester? I am sure that nrf51822 or nrf51DK cant be used as specified in nan34 application note. Please help us out.

Thanks,

Sridhar

[Håkon Alseth]

Hi,

 

There are many dedicated bluetooth LE testers out there that can be used for this purpose. We use the Anritsu MT8852B.

We have a white paper on a LiteOn bluetooth tester as well:

http://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.whitepapers/dita/whitepapers/nwp_028/nwp_028_intro.html?cp=11_2

 

Best regards,

Håkon

 

[Sridhar Jonnavittula]

Hakon,

By seeing project in above link it is supported by pca10040 DK. I tried to compile by copying extracted zip to examples/ble_peripheral folder. How can I make it work with pca10056 SDK v15.0.0?

[Håkon Alseth]

Yes, that is true. You need then to run the direct_test_mode firmware on both the Device-under-test (DUT) and your golden sample (tester device), then use the python files available here as the actual test: nAN34 Application note and Python code v1.01

 

Note that this python code is compatible with direct_test_mode for bluetooth v4 capabilities, and will not cover bluetooth 5 features (like Long_Range, 2Mbit)

 

Best regards,

Håkon