Nimble & Ubertooth

[Ahmed Salem <as...@odu.edu>]

Hello, 

Have anyone looked in porting nimble on ubertooth hardware? any limitations, requirements or future plans?

Regards,
-Ahmed

Re: Nimble & Ubertooth

[will sanfilippo <wi...@runtime.io>]

Mike is certainly correct. The LPC is not supported although that would not be terribly difficult to add. The only RF transceivers supported currently are the nrf51 and nrf52, so there would be a fair amount of work porting the nimble ble phy to the cc2400 if you wanted to run the nimble controller on the platform. Of course, you could just run the nimble host (assuming LPC support was added).

> On Sep 7, 2016, at 10:28 AM, Mike Ryan <mi...@lacklustre.net> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 12:58:01PM -0400, Ahmed Salem wrote:
>> Have anyone looked in porting nimble on ubertooth hardware? any
>> limitations, requirements or future plans?
> 
> I'm one of the Ubertooth developers. I have some interest in doing it,
> but there are a few hurdles:
> 
> - no LPC support in Mynewt tree
> - CC2400 radio is much less featured than other supported radio periphs
> - development on the platform is essentially 100% volunteer based
> 
> We are more interested in porting it over to the in-development GreatFET
> platform. It has an LPC4330 with Cortex-M4 and M0, so it's much more
> powerful. While it doesn't have a radio chip onboard, the design allows
> for a modular "neighbor" with a radio to be attached.

Re: Nimble & Ubertooth

[Mike Ryan <mi...@lacklustre.net>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 12:58:01PM -0400, Ahmed Salem wrote:
> Have anyone looked in porting nimble on ubertooth hardware? any
> limitations, requirements or future plans?

I'm one of the Ubertooth developers. I have some interest in doing it,
but there are a few hurdles:

 - no LPC support in Mynewt tree
 - CC2400 radio is much less featured than other supported radio periphs
 - development on the platform is essentially 100% volunteer based

We are more interested in porting it over to the in-development GreatFET
platform. It has an LPC4330 with Cortex-M4 and M0, so it's much more
powerful. While it doesn't have a radio chip onboard, the design allows
for a modular "neighbor" with a radio to be attached.