nrf21540 with ESB

RE: nrf21540 with ESB

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:25:14 GMT

No, unfortunately not.

RE: nrf21540 with ESB

enukic — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 22:05:51 GMT

Thank you Einar.
And what about nRF5 SDK? Would it work at all?

RE: nrf21540 with ESB

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 09:34:16 GMT

Hi Emir,

Yes, for the most part it is fixed, though state transition timings (particularly from power-down are a bit long). I recommend you use nRF Connect SDK 2.3.0 or later, as that has the most recent fixes, including a fix that prevented Tx power from being correctly configured in nRF Connect SDK 2.2.0 and older.

Regarding HW you should use revision 2 (build code G).

RE: nrf21540 with ESB

enukic — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:24:31 GMT

Hi Einar Jenssen

could you please check if this issue is fixed in a more recent revision? If so, which revision is that?

Thanks

Emir

RE: nrf21540 with ESB

Michal — Thu, 20 May 2021 12:19:48 GMT

Thanks Einar for confirming.

RE: nrf21540 with ESB

Einar Thorsrud — Thu, 20 May 2021 11:32:25 GMT

You have the same issue with ESB as with BLE. It will not work with the current revision.

RE: nrf21540 with ESB

Michal — Thu, 20 May 2021 11:02:40 GMT

@awneil. I don't understand what are you trying to do here? My question is related mainly to ESB support not BLE, which does not have clear answer on devzone. Also I am not trying to find out WHEN nrf21540 will be supported but rather HOW I can deal with current hardware.

If you have some useful input on of these, please share it.

RE: nrf21540 with ESB

awneil — Thu, 20 May 2021 10:36:35 GMT

OK.

Also written by that Nordic employee:

[quote userid="7377" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/73610/nrf21540-and-ble/303197#303197"]contact sales for information on when and how this will be solved[/quote]

so have you done that?

RE: nrf21540 with ESB

Michal — Thu, 20 May 2021 10:26:08 GMT

"In practice that means that the current revision is not compatible with BLE." - https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/73610/nrf21540-and-ble/303197#303197. As written by NORDIC employee.

RE: nrf21540 with ESB

awneil — Thu, 20 May 2021 10:08:15 GMT

[quote userid="14528" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/75386/nrf21540-with-esb"] I am finding out that nrf21540 is actually not compatible with BLE?[/quote]

Where / how are you "finding that out" ?

[quote userid="14528" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/75386/nrf21540-with-esb"]On https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Low-power-short-range-wireless/nRF21540 I can read that this amplifier is BLE compatible[/quote]

Yes, that is certainly what it says:

Documentations:

https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/struct_fem/struct/nrf21540.html