Combining 2 states

RE: Combining 2 states

Petter Myhre — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:12:15 GMT

I understand that you are a new user, but I would appreciate if you could read our FAQ. Especially the part about asking multiple questions in one post, or comment. Also, I have written some guidelines that could help you. You have a lot of questions, and we really want to answer them. I belive you can find the answers of many of them by searching this site. If you can't find your answer you can add your questions to Nordic Developer Zone, separately. The other option is to use our other gateway for asking questions, the MyPage support portal. Please see this guideline for more information. Thank you.

RE: Combining 2 states

Petter Myhre — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 12:43:15 GMT

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RE: Combining 2 states

Petter Myhre — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 12:34:37 GMT

I understand that you are a new user, but I would appreciate if you could read our FAQ. Especially the part about asking multiple questions in one post, or comment. Also, I have written some guidelines that could help you. You have a lot of questions, and we really want to answer them. I belive you can find the answers of many of them by searching this site. If you can't find your answer you can add your questions to Nordic Developer Zone, separately. The other option is to use our other gateway for asking questions, the MyPage support portal. Please see this guideline for more information. Thank you.

RE: Combining 2 states

SergP — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:32:57 GMT

Thank you, this sounds like what I really need, I have several more questions/assumptions, please correct if my assumptions are wrong:

a) As I have read about SoftDevices I could treat those as a kind of firmware which can be loaded to such chips like nRF51822, correct? b) When we are talking about Alpha Release we are talking about that software/firmware and not about the chip (hardware), right? So I assume that the chip nRF51822 is already available in Production Quality but the S130 firmware is Alpha for now. c) It should not be a problem to migrate from Alpha to Production once it is available (later this year). d) If I don't need ANT and I just need BLE then most optimal choice for me is to host S130 on nRF51822 e) Did I get it right - the nRF51822 Development Kit contains 2 nRF51822 chips on different boards with the only difference is the antenna type? So, seems like by using single instance of the dev kit I will be able to debug 2 devices, but since they don't have any buttons/LEDs I would also need to buy nRFgo which contains 2 motherboards with a lot of LEDs and buttons. The problem is the nRFgo costs 4 times of the dev kit so I am thinking it should be possible to connect (by soldering?) LED/button to the dev kit, this way I don't need to spend a lot of money for nRFgo. Alternative solution would be to buy 2 evaluation kits where each one contains buttons/LEDs but each evaluation kit has just 1 board with nRF51822 on it which would mean that I have to buy 2 of those if I need to debug an interoperation between my 2 devices. f) The Dev and Eval Kits both are supplied with a dongle - does Nordic provide programmatic access (API) to the dongle so I could interact with it from my Windows 8.1 based machine? So, I am trying to find out how much freedom I have with those dongles - will I be able to use them as application notes demo only or I can program/access them as I need?

RE: Combining 2 states

Ulrich Myhre — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:20:29 GMT

Have you had a look at the S130 SoftDevice for the nRF51 series of chips? The alpha is out, and supports up to 3 central links and a peripheral link running at the same time. It can also scan and advertise simultaneously, without any magic added. It is however time-slotted, as you might suspect. It is not possible to truly do two things at the exact same time on a single radio :)