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PCA10036 and SDK14

Hello,

I have a PCA10036 v1.0.0 2015.24 EVK. Wonder if it will work with Softdevice SDKv14.

Thank you for your help!

  • Hi,

    The PCA10036 ships with an Engineering A revision of the nRF52 which is not compatible with SDK 14. Please refer to this and this compatibility matrix.

    If you chose to try anyway, it might seem to work, but we have not tested it and will not give any guarantees.

  • I actually had the same issue a long while back. Essentially the PCA10036 had an engineering A version of the 52832 whereas the pca10040 has a production version chip.

    The problem is that there were only special versions of the soft device for version A chips for SDK11.

    So could use SDK14, BUT you would need to fix all the API references to make it compatible with the alpha versions of the SD. And, you may not be able to fix everything since the API's constantly mature and change. You may find functionality that just doesn't exist in ver2 SD's.

    Or, you could use the alpha version of the SD and stick to SDK11.

    Or, if you have a hot air reflow gun you can replace the engineering A chip with a production B0 chip. (this is what I did to solve the problem)

    Or, you can spend $39 for a new DK with a production version 52832. Depending on what kind of work you are planning, you might consider the nRFThingy which also has an nRF52832 and a bunch of sensor but no easy access to gpio.

    Here is a blog entry on the subject: devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

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