Available RAM for the Application

Question

I am using the nRF51822 chip. The RAM memory is composed of two blocks (0 and 1) of 8kB each, divided into 4 sections : Call Stack, Heap, Application, and SoftDevice.
If the block 0 is used by the SoftDevice, so the block 1 is used by the Call Stack, Heap, and Application. 
 My question is, what is the available amount of memory for the application, knowing that Call Stack is using 1536bytes (in the S110 specification) ? because I can read everywhere that 8kB are available. 
 Could you please clarify ? Thanks,

Vidar Berg · Accepted Answer

Hi, 
 The call stack is by default set to 2K, which is shared between the softdevice and the application. It is correct as you mentioned that the s110 v.7.0.1 use a maximum of 1536 bytes of the stack. You can modify arm_startup_nrf51.s if you wish to change stack or heap size. 
 Heap memory can safely be set to zero as long as you don't use dynamic memory allocation (malloc/free). Note that heap is generally not used in our SDK examples. 
 So if you set heap to zero, and keep the default stack, you will have 6K available in the Application region plus the 2K of shared stack. 
 
 Memory map with s110 enabled, see S110-SDS chapter 10 for more details 
 EDIT:Thought I should mention that we just released a new variant of the nRF51 with 32K RAM, in case the 16K was a limiting factor for your application.

Available RAM for the Application

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