How to use ANT+ on nRF5340?

[Mark TK]

Hello,

We have a fitness application that employs concurrent use of ANT+ and BLE communications on an nRF52840, that we wish to port to the nRF5340. The product brief for the nRF5340 claims ANT support, so this should be possible, but I can't figure out how to do it. Which softdevice or stack supports ANT on the nRF5340? Or even better: can you point me to a sample application for the nRF5340 that illustrates how to use ANT on that chip?

Questions posted on the ANT forum of thisisant.com regarding ANT support for the nRF5340 unfortunately go unanswered.

Thank you!

Mark

[Sigurd]

Hi,

The nRF5340 hardware supports ANT/ANT+, but we do not have an ANT/ANT+ stack for the nRF5340 at the moment.

For information regarding release schedules and roadmaps, please contact your local Nordic Regional Sales Manager(RSM). If you do not have any contact information, then let me know where you're based in a PM and I will provide you with the local RSMs contact info.

[YaroslavRakhnenko]

I think you should remove the ANT+ information from the product card!

We wasted several weeks designing the device schematics with this chip, and after that we found out that there are no tools to use ANT+ in this MCU!

[Sigurd]

Hi,

ANT support for nRF5340 is coming very soon! 

For further information regarding release schedules and roadmaps, please contact your local Nordic Regional Sales Manager(RSM). If you do not have any contact information, then let me know where you're based in a PM and I will provide you with the local RSMs contact info.

[Gziegler]

Hi Sigurd, I am located in Stockholm, pls. let me know the RSM for me. I am highly interested in an Arduino compatible SoC capable of both ANT+ and BLE Audio(!).

[Sigurd]

Hi,

You need to use nRF Connect SDK for that.

https://www.thisisant.com/developer/ant/nrf-connect-sdk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg2p-scEyUA&ab_channel=NordicSemiconductor

https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/2.1.2/nrf/applications/nrf5340_audio/README.html

[Gziegler]

Thanks, I will have a look soon. I already have a working arduino based "Arduino Sports Tracker" (which is an ANT+ sensors data recorder running on an Adafruit nrf52840 Express Feather wielding some GPS and barometric elevation sensor FeatherWing), it would be cool to be able to port that to nRF53 and get the chance to transmit audio cue prompts to my Bluetooth headset to be able to follow structured workouts without reading screens. :)