Software

Periodic Advertising with Responses (PAwR): A practical guide

Hung Bui — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:04:00 GMT

Periodic Advertising with Responses (PAWR) is a new feature in Bluetooth 5.4. It extends the periodic advertising protocol from Bluetooth 5.0. Periodic advertising, where a device sends broadcast data with deterministic timing,&nb...(read more)

Using nRF Connect SDK and west to compile and program the DTM example into the nRF52840 DK

Jay Tyzzer — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:23:00 GMT

Background There is a need to enable Nordic hardware with the Direct Test Mode (DTM) firmware. This is so the physical layer and RF characteristics may be ascertained as set in the Bluetooth Sig Specification. The DTM sample, available in nRF Co...(read more)

Building a Bluetooth application on nRF Connect SDK - Part 3 Optimizing the connection

Hung Bui — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 13:56:00 GMT

This is part 3 of the series Building a Bluetooth application on nRF Connect SDK You can find other parts here: Part 1 - Peripheral Role. Part 2 - Central Role. In Part 1 we covered the generic architecture, the peripheral ro...(read more)

Memory Optimization with the nRF Connect SDK

matt.heins — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 22:11:00 GMT

Out of the box, the examples in the nRF Connect SDK are configured for ease of use, functionality, and debugging; they are not generally configured for optimal memory utilization. Some of the examples are simply too large to fit in Nordic’s sma...(read more)

nRF Desktop on a Development Kit

Priyanka — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:20:00 GMT

This tutorial is aimed at implementing the nRF Desktop application on the nRF52840 Development Kit (DK) using the nRF Connect SDK, thereby allowing it to work either as a gaming mouse, keyboard, or dongle. Table of Contents 1. ...(read more)

Common fixes for nRF Connect SDK build problems

Sigurd Hellesvik — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:32:00 GMT

Does your build fail today, even though it worked fine yesterday? Are you able to build your project on another computer, but not the one you need to use now? Here are eight things you can try to fix these type of problems. The three most popular way...(read more)

Updating to the MPSL Timeslot interface

Daniel Veilleux — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 21:59:00 GMT

The "Concurrent Multiprotocol Timeslot API" was introduced with v7.0 of the S110 SoftDevice in 2014. The original purpose was to allow customers to build their own proprietary networks using the nRF51's "Bluetooth low energy (BLE), ANT, Enhanced Shoc...(read more)

Testing concurrent multi-protocol support of Zigbee & BLE over single USB connection to external CPU

Mark Q — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:33:00 GMT

Purpose The purpose of this blog is to showcase how a single USB bus can be used as the physical transport for multiple protocols when an external CPU is the controller. Specifications as tested Boards: nRF52840-DK x 3 NCS Tag: v1.5.0 Ubun...(read more)

Using the NCS / West to program the Radio_Test example into the nRF5340-DK for agency testing.

Jay Tyzzer — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 18:07:00 GMT

Background: There is a need to be able to put a Nordic Semiconductors S0C /transceivers into modes where the physical layer and RF characteristics may be ascertained. The radio test example is used to put the nRF5340 into various modes in...(read more)

Building a Bluetooth application on nRF Connect SDK - Contrasting to SoftDevice - Part 2 Central role

Hung Bui — Wed, 05 May 2021 09:13:00 GMT

This is part 2 of the series Building a Bluetooth application on nRF Connect SDK - Contrasting to SoftDevice based Bluetooth applications You can find the other parts here: Part 1 - Peripheral Role. Part 3 - Optimizing the connection. In Pa...(read more)

Enter the Multi-NUS: A Simple Wireless UART Network

matt.heins — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 23:05:00 GMT

If you’re thinking about building a network of sensors and you begin to survey the options, you’re likely to encounter a frothing sea of acronyms representing a variety of standards and protocols clamoring for your attention, begging you ...(read more)

Device Firmware Update (DFU) with MCUBoot bootloader

Mark Q — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 19:20:00 GMT

Purpose The purpose of this blog is to show how to create a Zephyr application that boots from the MCUBoot bootloader. We will also show how to update an application using the Device Firmware Update (DFU) feature of MCUBoot using a serial conne...(read more)

Building a Bluetooth application on nRF Connect SDK- Comparing and contrasting to SoftDevice based applications - Part 1

Hung Bui — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:49:00 GMT

Scope This is a discussion on building a Bluetooth application on our new nRF Connect SDK/Zephyr platform with the reflections to our nRF5 SDK which is based on the SoftDevice Bluetooth stack. The goal is to give you an overview of the arch...(read more)

Using a custom Secure Partition Manager with your application

Heidi — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:32:00 GMT

One of the samples available in the nRF Connect SDK is the Secure Partition Manager, which is required to run applications in the nonsecure domain of the CPU. The sample uses the SPM library available in NCS. This post shows you how y...(read more)