The Radio Timeslot API allows the nRF52 device to be part of a network using the SoftDevice protocol stack and an alternative network of wireless devices at the same time.
The Radio Timeslot (or, simply Timeslot) feature gives the application access to the radio and other restricted peripherals during defined time intervals, denoted as timeslots. The Timeslot feature achieves this by cooperatively scheduling the application's use of these peripherals with those of the SoftDevice. Using this feature, the application can run other radio protocols (third party, custom, or proprietary protocols running from application space) concurrently with the internal protocol stack of the SoftDevice. It can also be used to suppress SoftDevice radio activity and to reserve guaranteed time for application activities with hard timing requirements, which cannot be met by using the System on Chip (SoC) Radio Notifications.
The Timeslot feature is part of the SoC library. The feature works by having the SoftDevice time-multiplex access to peripherals between the application and itself. Through the SoC Application Programming Interface (API), the application can open a Timeslot session and request timeslots. When a Timeslot request is granted, the application has exclusive and real-time access to the normally blocked RADIO, TIMER0, CCM, and AAR peripherals and can use these freely for the duration (length) of the timeslot. See Hardware access type definitions and Hardware peripherals with limited availability to the application.