This is something I've been curious about myself as well. Nimble is
still a work in progress, but I've wondered if there were any plans once
the final 1.0 release is done and initial development is considered closed.
The SD from Nordic has some significant trade-offs in terms of losing
real time control of the system, and being limited by the design
decisions made by Nordic (20 bytes per packet), but it does make it much
easier to sell products since part of the certification process is
handled by Nordic. Particularly for low volume, low cost products the
thousands of dollars/Euros saved here can have a big impact on total per
device cost, and every bit matters in a startup.
What would the financial burden be of getting a 1.0 Nimble through
certification along with some certified code for a handful of common
services/characteristics defined by the SIG? You will still always need
to register your product with the SIG (which costs money), as well as
getting FCC certification (which will also cost money), but if the stack
itself is certified that's one less step to take and one less cheque to
write for Mynewt users.
K.
On 04/01/17 18:22, Klaus Hagen wrote:
Hi,
Is or will released Nimble stack versions be Bluetooth SIG qualified in the
future? Or are companies integrating the Nimble stack supposed to get their
own qualification done?
Br,
Klaus
