Maybe just a tease? :-)
Maybe just a tease? :-)
Currently in the Home Page is appeared a big image: "nRF52 series - prepare to meet The Game Changer - 17 June 2015" ...
A Bombastic hint :-)
This is going to be an annoying 2 months wait, I want to know NOW!!
Isn't the nrf51 on a 180nm process? From the TSMC press release they are switching to a 55nm process. So that is a ~10x increase in the transistor budget for the same sized die. Think of all the interesting things you could do with 10x the transistors.
I hope they switch to at least a M0+ to get rid of the interrupt trampoline sillyness.
A low frequency/voltage M0+ for the BLE stack and a higher frequency M[34] for the user app would be an 'easy' way to decouple the stack from the user app.
More universal DMA support (ie DMA for ADC, SPI, UART, etc). With my nrf51 design I'm spending way too much time servicing the SPI and I2C. I should just be able to set up a DMA and clock out a few K of data to the SPI bus without having to take an interrupt on every byte.
Capacitive sense hardware that only needs to wakeup the CPU on touch event would be much appreciated.
Very exciting! Hoping for a CPU boost!
Segger just released JLink V5.00 and it has this tiny tidbit in it
Firmware: JLink-OB-SAM3U128-mbedBTL-NordicSemi: Updated MSD files for new nRF52 based boards
So we know there are NRF52 boards, they use JLink OB and that hopefully means they are both JLink and MBED enabled. I say hopefully because I never want to use MBED again after the complete utter and total lack of support they have for OSX.
Suspense is killing me ....