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SOLAR_FIELDS ◴[] No.44367397[source]
Nordic makes some good products. When I was doing hardware design for a product that uses a battery my options for power profiling were either not to do it or spend some eye watering amount of money. Then I discovered Nordic makes the PPKII, a cost effective, highly accurate profiler with quite good software. I detect good things in store for the company just based on the quality of stuff they have been putting out.
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phoronixrly ◴[] No.44367996[source]
Do they have nice open-source SDKs for these nice products?
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vbezhenar ◴[] No.44369552[source]
I'm working with NRF5 SDK. Most of its source is available (no idea if it's free software or not, but sources are there). The most glaring exception is softdevice - that's BLE implementation, it's huge binary blob, taking control over most CPU.

Their newer SDK based on Zephyr RTOS, I didn't work with it, but I think it's mostly open source as well.

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1. Avamander ◴[] No.44371984[source]
You can use NimBLE on quite a few of these chips.