Running BLE HCI controller and Openthread RCP simultaneously

[Saumil]

Hi,

We develop a custom gateway in which we use iMx6ULL and NRF52840. Both are connected over full UART.

We use this NRF52840 as a BLE HCI controller by flashing the HCI_UART example from Zephyr.

We use the same NRF52840 as the Openthread RCP board from the build from openthread GitHub.

Both things are separately working fine.

Now, we want to develop a use case in which both BLE and openthread are going to be used simultaneously.

So I wanted to check that if NRF52840 can work as BLE HCI controller and Openthread RCP simultaneously?

Is it possible for any SOC practically?

If possible, how I can achieve this in NRF52840?

Thanks in advance.

[Susheel Nuguru]

Theoretically this should be possible, but I am not sure what the efforts are to actually make it work. Both of them are time critical protocols and trying to make the lower layers of time critical protocols can be tricky. In short, I cannot clearly see how much effort that might take. Sorry, not helpful answer but honest.

[Saumil]

Thanks for response