Assistance in the Bluetooth SIG Qualification Process

[Thomas Nenning]

Dear Nordic Team,

The founders Lukas Pilat and Robert Kopka have met your representatives at the Light & Building conference yesterday. They recommended us to get in touch with Nordic via a private ticket to get assistance through the Bluetooth SIG Qualification process.

So far we have registered with die Bluetooth SIG, defined a project with our best knowledge, bought the PTS dongle and got familiar with the PTS Software. Currently we try to pass all test steps.

It would be great if you could give us some tips and tricks in general about the whole qualification process and how to efficiently qualify a product. Further a technical contact for detailed questions concerning the single test steps in PTS would help us a lot.

Sincerly,

  Thomas

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Hi again!

So I got some feedback on your case.

You should not go with the "Required testing". This is not needed unless adding any layer to our stack or something similar.

You should go for the "No required testing",
and refer to our already qualified design (QDID 85568).

You should perform the RF-PHY tests to make sure everything is in order, but there is no need to submit the RF-PHY tests.
You should keep the tests. And in the case of an audit from BT SIG, refer to the RF-PHY tests to confirm and document that this have been tested.

I'm sorry for the delays and misunderstandings.
Hopefully this will make your qualification process alot easier.

Make sure to let me know you have any further issues, and we will quickly sort them out.

Best regards,
Joakim.

[Hugo Peixoto]

Hello Joakim,

Instead of open a new topic, since my doubt is similar I will put my doubt here. I hope that this is not a problem.

We are also developing with nRF52832, and in our understanding we are using QDID 187856 and 188441.

First question, how to be sure that this are the correct QDID to select?

Is the above path also a solution for us to qualify our product?

Making RF-PHY tests on a Bluetooth Qualification Test Facilities, is advise?

Thanks

[Chris Ergo]

> Making RF-PHY tests on a Bluetooth Qualification Test Facilities, is advise?

I don't recommend doing RF-PHY testing. My understanding was it would be "best practice" to do RF-PHY testing to test our PCB and antenna, so we did the testing. They only tested with a coax cable soldered on the board, so essentially only tested the chip, which has already been qualified previously.