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ARM Beetle board BT5 Support?

thall@cloud2gnd.com over 9 years ago

Will the current ARM Beetle board be upgradeable to BT5 via firmware update, or is a hardware revision required?

0 Mark Nicholson over 9 years ago

Hi, I suspect BT5 support requires new hardware IP[1]. If that's true there are no plans to make this available in an update to the existing Beetle platform.

[1] However there are lots of BT5 features and I'm not an expert. We'll check and get back to you.
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+1 Michele Wilkinson over 9 years ago in reply to Mark Nicholson

Hi,

I can confirm that Bluetooth 5 support would require a different hardware than the one that has been implemented in Beetle. The ARM Cordio radio block within Beetle has been optimized for Bluetooth 4.2 to reduce the power consumption and increase the efficiency. This optimization is not possible with a software-defined, flexible radio, that would support new protocols by SW update.
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0 thall@cloud2gnd.com over 9 years ago in reply to Michele Wilkinson

As I expected. Thank you very, very much for the clarification.
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