v0.5.0 Release Notes

This release provides EXPERIMENTAL support for developing ANT and ANT+ enabled applications with the Nordic nRF Connect SDK.

Important

  • The release is for evaluation purposes only. It is not intended for product development.

  • The release is not fully tested and is provided without guarantee of functionality.

  • The release is not optimized for performance or power consumption.

Highlights

  • New Samples

    • ANT+ BSC TX/RX (samples/ant_plus/ant_bsc)

    • ANT+ BPWR TX/RX (samples/ant_plus/ant_bpwr)

  • New Libraries

    • ANT+ Profile: BSC

    • ANT+ Profile: BPWR

Supported boards

  • PCA10095 (nRF5340 Development Kit)

Limitations

  • Multiprotocol coexistence with BLE is experimental and has been tested with the provided default sample configuration only (hci_rpmsg)

  • Multiprotocol coexistence with any other wireless radio protocol is untested

Unsupported ANT features:

  • Encrypted Channels

  • PA/LNA Support

  • Time Sync

  • Scanning Channel

  • High Duty Search Channel

  • Event Filtering

  • Channel Spacing Allocation

Changelog

  • The previous ANT Library Zephyr Kernel function dependency has been removed

  • ant_coex_config_get() parameter serialization has been corrected

  • Fixed context protection issue where ANT stack API calls made by ant_np_remote module were missing multithreading lock

  • Fixed burst transfer issue where non-static buffer supplied to ant_burst_handler_request() by ant_np_remote_burst module could be overwritten