nRF5 SDK v13.1.0
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 v13.1.0 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 v13.1.0
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Release Date: Week 27, 2017

Highlights:
- Added support for the SoftDevice S332 v4.0.x.
- Added serialization solution for the combined BLE and ANT SoftDevice. 
 
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:
- S132 v4.0.x
- S140 v5.0.0-2.alpha
- S212 v4.0.x
- S332 v4.0.x
    
Supported boards:
- PCA10040
- PCA10056 (limited support; see the "Scope for the nRF52840 chip" section)
- Dynastream's D52DK1 (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
********************************
All examples and libraries for the new chip must be treated as
experimental.
Some examples have not been ported to run on nRF52840. Check the
existing example projects to see which targets are supported.
    
The following SDK features are supported on the new nRF52840 chip:
  - New 804.15.4 stack library with an example
  - 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)
  - Cryptography library including CryptoCell CC310 backend
  - NFC Type 2 Tag and Type 4 Tag 
  - Secure DFU (only with micro-ecc backend)
  - Serialization of the S140 SoftDevice v5.0.0-2.alpha with UART
   
The following SDK features are not supported on the new nRF52840 chip yet:
   - ANT
   - DTM
   - ESB and Gazell
   - FreeRTOS
   - Eddystone
       
       
*** New features
*****************
    
** BLE **
- Added S332 projects in Heart Rate Sensor and Heart Rate Collector examples.
 
** ANT **
- Added support the for the new SoftDevice S332 v4.0.x.
- Added S332 examples: 'Ant Shared Channels' and 'ANT and BLE Heart Rate Monitor Relay Application'.
- Added an S332 project for the D52DK1 Development Kit in the ANT Message Types example.
  
** Serialization **
- Added a solution for serialization of combined BLE and ANT SoftDevice
  using the ble_ant_app_hrm example as the use case.

 
*** Changes
************

** ANT **
- Removed the nrf_sd_def.h file. It will be now distributed just like the rest of SoftDevice header files through 
  https://www.thisisant.com
  
 
*** Bugfixes
*************
 
** Drivers and libraries **
- Fixed a potential overflow in watchdog timer (WDT) driver initialization.


*** Known Issues
*****************
  
** 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.

** BLE **
- Some examples might have excessively verbose logging.
- Examples that use the Peer Manager might assert when deleting bonds,
  because advertising is started twice.
- 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.
- Advertisement intervals in the Eddystone Beacon Application are not
  verified. Clients must ensure that the configured advertisement
  interval is within the valid range. Note that EID/eTLM configurations
  might require advertisement intervals to be larger than the default value.
  
** 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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