RE: Connectivity FW on nRF52840 Dongle with PA/LNA

chulseung.yoo — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 02:45:36 GMT

https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-ble-driver-js/issues/187

According to this link, pc-ble-driver says there is no support for v6 softdevice. v5 is the latest. And s140 was supposed to be supported in v6. By the way, luckily, there was a project that made the s132 softdevice v5 version compatible with the nRF52840. Among the examples of the patched version of the nRF5 SDK version 15 that I described, it is in the following path.
/examples/connectivity/ble_connectivity/pca10056/ser_s132v5_usb_hci
When the project is opened in Segger Embedded Studio and built and downloaded to nRF52840 Dongle, it works properly as a dongle adapter of pc-ble-driver. Even though it's an s132 soft device. So I'm starting with this project and trying to apply PA/LNA features to it.

RE: Connectivity FW on nRF52840 Dongle with PA/LNA

Simonr — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:28:32 GMT

The pc-ble-driver is based on an older SoftDevice version I'm afraid, so PA/LNAs aren't supported for the pc-ble-driver. Since you're trying to add it yourself I guess you are moving somewhere, but I see that you have tagged this case as S132 and link to an S132 case. The SoftDevice supproted by the nRF52840 is only the S140 SoftDevice, so if you're not using this already, try moving to S140 instead of S132.

Best regards,

Simon