Bluetooth 4.2 support

[Bimal]

Does the SoC nRF52832 support Bluetooth 4.2? Or is there any other SoC which supports the same?

[Petter Myhre]

Both the nRF51 Series and the nRF52 Series have the required hardware to be compliant with Bluetooth 4.2.

SoftDevice S130 for the nRF51 Series is compliant with Bluetooth 4.2.

SoftDevice S132 for the nRF52 Series is compliant with Bluetooth 4.2, but this is an alpha release.

[Petter Myhre]

Currently our SoftDevices support max 20 B of data in each packet. How many packets per connection interval depends on what SoftDevice you use, if you are in the peripheral role or in the central role, if the device is a server or a client, and what kind of operation is used. It also depends on what you are connected to supports. See this question for how to calculate throughput. For the S110 SoftDevice the BLE data throughput is included in Section 13 in the specificaiton, see this. For the S130 SoftDevice you can find the BLE data throughput here.