Does nRF52820 have any Thread application examples available?

[IoTMAN]

Hello, 

I have tried to find examples where I can use nRF52820 chips for Thread applications and I can't. Program memory is too small for any application as far as I've searched and tried. Am I missing something? In the website it says it supports Thread but if I can't make it work because of the flash size I don't get what good it is for Thread? My company invested in some good quantity of 52820 for a Thread application and it's just sad if I can't make it work, although it's advertised to. 

I hope that I'm missing something. Any help for a working example is greatly appreciated. 

Thank you. 

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

There is a difference between being able to support a protocol like Thread in the HW of the chip, and having software support for the protocol. The nRF52820 chip have support for IEEE 802.15.4 protocols like Thread and Zigbee in the HW, but this does not necessarily mean that the protocols are implemented in SW for this chip. Unfortunately, there is currently no support for nRF52820 in our OpenThread implementation. As you can see from this repository, nRF52811 is supported, and this chip have smaller RAM and Flash sizes compared to nRF52820, which means that it is technically possible to support OpenThread in nRF52820 as well. Note that the flash and RAM size of nRF52820, which will limits its possible use-cases to RCP and MTD applications.

We cannot comment on roadmaps for future SW support in this forum, but if you have questions or requests regarding Thread support in nRF52820, you can contact you regional sales manager through the "Sales related questions" on our Webpage.

Best regards,
Jørgen