Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability for qualified support of the nRF52840 multiprotocol SoC with Amazon FreeRTOS
Amazon FreeRTOS is an industry-leading operating system for embedded devices in IoT designs. The nRF52840 SoC and the nRF52840 DK development kits are now qualified platforms for working with Amazon FreeRTOS using Bluetooth Low Energy. There is also a codebase for developing embedded applications plus a gateway app for mobile devices connecting to the Internet
Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced immediate general availability of a qualified port of Amazon FreeRTOS for the Nordic nRF52840 multiprotocol System-on-Chip (SoC) and its supporting development kit, the nRF52840 DK.
The release encompasses downloadable code for running Amazon FreeRTOS on the nRF52840 and is also supported by a mobile app which enables the nRF52840 to communicate with AWS IoT Core. The connectivity support is with Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) and allows transfer of data to and from a device to the Cloud. AWS IoT Device Management offers device-specific maintenance and management features.
The Amazon FreeRTOS includes examples for using Bluetooth LE for commissioning of Wi-Fi gateways into an IoT system in a much simpler manner than using Wi-Fi alone for the commissioning process. The examples use standard GATT/GAP interfaces and thus ensure compatibility with all smartphones in the market. Connectivity is based on Nordic Semiconductor’s S140 SoftDevice, a high-performance protocol stack offering up to 20 simultaneous connections and many of Bluetooth LE’s latest performance features including full Bluetooth 5 support. The S140 is RTOS agnostic and integrates smoothly with the Amazon FreeRTOS kernel.
We are excited to reach this milestone, together with AWS, on a qualified, generally-available release to the public of nRF52840 support within Amazon FreeRTOS – Paal Kastnes, Nordic Semiconductor
With Amazon FreeRTOS, the users get access to one of the most popular RTOS kernels in the market today. With the increasing complexity of IoT applications, developers get the scheduling assuredness and predictability benefits that comes with such an RTOS driven-system. In addition, they get access to the device-to-Cloud libraries used to connect to AWS IoT Core. The Amazon FreeRTOS SDK integrates software from the Nordic nRF5 SDK for specific device drivers and features support for peripherals and memory management.
“We are excited to reach this milestone, together with AWS, on a qualified, generally-available release to the public of nRF52840 support within Amazon FreeRTOS,” says Paal Kastnes, Technical Marketing Manager at Nordic Semiconductor. “It will make overall IoT system development simpler and easier to implement when using Bluetooth LE applications across a broad spectrum of use-cases into a popular IoT solution such as AWS IoT Core using Amazon FreeRTOS.”
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