RUN RF52840 WITH THREAD NCP AND BLE

[bubble23]

Hello,

i work with nrf52840. I know that it is possible to run two stacks Thread and BLE on one Chip (nRF52840) on dynamic way. But i want to run Thread as NCP-Radio and BLE. It is possible? And how I can do this? thanks in advance

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

In theory this should be possible, but we do not have any examples in the SDKs showing how to do it. 

Note that running dynamic multiprotocol solution with Thread and BLE will reduce the probability of receiving packets in the Thread network, as described in Dynamic multiprotocol performance. This may not be desirable in an NCP application, if the node is part of a critical path in the network (for instance the only route from the Thread network to internet/cloud solution, etc.). I'm not sure what the requirements or use-case for your application is, but I think it is important to mention and consider.

The procedure of adding multiprotocol to your application depends on which SDK you are using:

• For nRF5 SDK, see Adding dynamic multiprotocol Thread support to BLE examples.
• For nRF Connect SDK, see Multiprotocol support for Thread and Zigbee.

Best regards,
Jørgen