https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/81839/is-there-a-version-of-softdevice-that-crawls-into-code-ramI believe that it may be advantageous (in some cases like an application short on FLASH with significant free RAM ) for a version of the soft device to have a significant portion compressed in FLASH on reset uncompress to CODE RAM execute mostlyen-USTelligent Community 13Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:40:11 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/339707?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:40:11 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:142d32a3-2f8f-434a-8a23-cbe45907dbe5dgerman<p>Thank you.</p> <p>I meant just a portion of the SD.&nbsp;I gave the compressed size of the entire SD just to show that about a 30% reduction in compression could be expected.</p> <p>I can see that the effort involved in having Nordic provide several routines of the soft device would not be feasible because of the need to have PIC.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/339593?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:26:53 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:2ae08d11-4f7c-4366-83e2-bb8eeddcf9b8Einar Thorsrud<p>Hi,</p> <p>This cannot work, for a couple of fundamental reasons:</p> <ul> <li>The nRF52833 has 128 kB RAM, which is not enough to fit the S140 SoftDevice.</li> <li>The SoftDevice is not built with position independent code, so it cannot run from any other address than what it has been built for.</li> </ul><div style="clear:both;"></div>