Softdevice 8.0.0 on nRF51822 revision 1

RE: Softdevice 8.0.0 on nRF51822 revision 1

Moritz — Mon, 25 May 2015 13:57:10 GMT

Thank you for your answer.

RE: Softdevice 8.0.0 on nRF51822 revision 1

Moritz — Mon, 25 May 2015 13:56:55 GMT

Thank you for your answer. This was what I was looking for.

RE: Softdevice 8.0.0 on nRF51822 revision 1

RK — Mon, 25 May 2015 00:45:33 GMT

No need to guess about Rev 2 compatibility with SD 8.0, the latest compatibility matrix is here. That shows that SD 8.0 works on Rev 2 hardware, but not tested/doesn't work on Rev 1. I believe it's also recommended with Rev 2 chips to enable BLE_COMMON_OPT_RADIO_CPU_MUTEX (see the documentation for the PANs that works around).

Technically if you follow that compatibility matrix you shouldn't use an SDK later than 6.1.0 for the Rev 2 chips either as the later hardware drivers don't have all the workarounds for various issues. Fortunately it's pretty easy to mix SDKs and Softdevices because of the clear SD API.

Rev 1 however - that's certainly not tested, it's very certainly not recommended for production applications and it's very likely that it just does't work.

RE: Softdevice 8.0.0 on nRF51822 revision 1

Nguyen Hoan Hoang — Mon, 25 May 2015 00:10:41 GMT

Rev 2 will work with SDK8. I can confirm that, see here. Rev would not work, so only way to get it work on your custom board is to populate it with rev 2 or above.