What is the hardware requirements for an external MCU to run a serialized connection with Nordic BLE module?

RE: What is the hardware requirements for an external MCU to run a serialized connection with Nordic BLE module?

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:36:50 GMT

Hi,

I am not sure what you are asking for. Can you elaborate?

RE: What is the hardware requirements for an external MCU to run a serialized connection with Nordic BLE module?

jyang — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:20:18 GMT

Hi,

Does Nordic have a customer service design tool and an example of implementation of it?

Thanks

RE: What is the hardware requirements for an external MCU to run a serialized connection with Nordic BLE module?

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:56:57 GMT

Hi,

We do not have a lot of documentation on that specifically as the SoftDevice itself is RTOS agnostic. You can see examples of the SoftDevice used with FreeRTOS in the nRF5 SDK, though not with serialization.

RE: What is the hardware requirements for an external MCU to run a serialized connection with Nordic BLE module?

jyang — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:40:15 GMT

Hi,

The BLE part of application will be scheduled by the current firmware RTOS. Do you have any information or instructions on implementation of Nordic BLE application on other RTOS?

Thank you for your help

RE: What is the hardware requirements for an external MCU to run a serialized connection with Nordic BLE module?

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:06:40 GMT

Hi,

If you use BLE serialization the SoftDevice (BLE stack) will run on the nRF, so most of the BLE processing and all time critical tasks happen there. This allows you to use a quite simple MCU as host processor. We do not have any example code for other MCU manufacturer, but you can see how this works by referring to the Serialization documentation.