nRF5 SDK v12.3.0
Introduction

The nRF5 SDK documentation includes descriptions and other reference material to help you understand the various components of the SDK. Examples are provided for development purposes only and should always be tested with your design.

See Getting Started for instructions on how to run the provided examples.

This version of the SDK supports the following SoftDevices:

Note
The nRF5 SDK v12.3.0 provides experimental support for the nRF52840 SoC. However, not all features are supported on nRF52840. See the release notes for details.

To download a copy of the SDK documentation for offline use, go to developer.nordicsemi.com.

SDK Release Notes:

nRF5 SDK v12.3.0
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Release Date: Week 19, 2017
 
Highlights:
 
The main update for this release is the Eddystone implementation for nRF51.
In addition to this, we have included some bug fixes. Apart from this, this SDK is identical to SDK v12.2.0.
The licenses in this SDK release have been updated in the same way as the licenses in SDK v13.0.0.
This SDK is distributed with nRF5x MDK v8.11.1.
 
- Eddystone implementation upgraded from experimental to production quality.
- Various bug fixes. See the Bugfixes section below.
 
The following toolchains/devices have been used for testing and
verification:
- ARM: MDK-ARM version 5.18a
- GCC: GCC ARM Embedded 4.9 2015q3
- IAR: IAR Workbench 7.80.4
 
Supported SoftDevices:
- S130 v2.0.1
- S132 v3.0.0
- S212 v2.0.0
- S332 v2.0.0
  
Supported boards:
- PCA10028
- PCA10031
- PCA10040
- PCA10056 (limited support; see the "Scope for the nRF52840" section)
- PCA20006 (only for beacon examples)
- Dynastream's N5DK1 (only for ANT examples)
  
For other devices and boards, see the SDK documentation, section "Using
the SDK with other boards".
  
  
*** Scope for the nRF52840 chip
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The PCA10056 development board is supported but all examples and libraries 
for the new chip should be treated as experimental.
  
The following SDK features are supported on the new nRF52840 chip:
  - Most BLE, hardware peripheral, and NFC examples (with some
    exceptions; see the available example projects for details)
  - Peripheral HAL and drivers (both for existing and new peripherals)
  - Library supporting CC310 CryptoCell
  - NFC Type 2 Tag and Type 4 Tag
 
The following SDK features are not supported on the new nRF52840 chip:
   - ANT
   - Secure DFU
   - Serialization
   - DTM
   - ESB and Gazell
   - RTX and FreeRTOS
   - Eddystone
 
 
*** Overall
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- Updated the license texts across the SDK.
 
 
*** Features
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** BLE **
- Eddystone implementation upgraded from experimental to production quality.
 
*** Bugfixes
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** Drivers and libraries **
- Fixed a bug in FDS where fds_record_update() did not set the page on which the record was stored as applicable for garbage collection.
- Fixed a bug in FDS where optimization for size in GCC would cause a variable to not be word aligned which resulted in FDS_ERR_UNALIGNED_ADDR when attempting some flash operations.
- Fixed a bug in FDS where updating the firmware with DFU to a firmware with different flash settings could cause a missing swap page to fail to be detected.
- Fixed a bug in SAADC where calling nrf_saadc_int_enable() would enable the wrong interrupt.
- Fixed a bug in SAADC where optimization in Keil would cause nrf_drv_saadc_abort() to time out.
- Fixed a bug in SAADC where certain conditions would cause only the first convertion to succeed.
- Fixed a bug in Peer Manager which made it possible for Peer Manager to corrupt the flash memory under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a bug in NRF Timer where a bit width 8 would fail a validation check for Timer 1 and Timer 2.
 
** BLE **
- Changed the device name to "Nordic_Buttonless" and enabled write property on DFU Service Control Point.
  
*** Known Issues
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** Overall **
- Updating the MDK requires to manually copy the header and linker files
  into the SDK folder (ARM Keil uVision 4, IAR Workbench, ARMGCC).
- When uploading an application to an nRF52 IC using nrfjprog, you must
  provide the "--reset/-r" argument or powercycle the board.
- RTX is not supported on nRF52 chips.
  
** BLE **
- Some examples might have excessively verbose logging.
- In the Proximity Application, writing "High Alert" to the AlertLevel
  characteristic of the Link Loss Service does not trigger a high alert
  when the link is lost.
- When an Android device is used as a peripheral, it sends slave
  security request with the MITM bit set. The central applications in
  the SDK will reject the security request (Pairing Failed) because
  they do not support MITM.
  
** NFC **
- NFC Type 2 and Type 4 Tag HAL modules require using TIMER4 on nRF52832.
- Type 2 Tag on nRF52840 chips might fail unpredictably.
- Some mobile phone apps cannot write Type 4 Tag ("NFC Tool" seems to be okay to use).



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