This section shows the compatibility between the nRF51 Series IC revisions, the relevant SoftDevices (SD) and their corresponding SoftDevice Specifications (SDS), and Software Development Kits (SDK).
| nRF51 IC rev. | nRF51 SDK1 | S110 SD2 | S110 SDS3 | S120 SD2 | S120 SDS3 | S130 SD2 | S130 SDS3 | S210 SD24 | S210 SDS3 | S310 SD25 | S310 SDS3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4.4.2 | 5.2.16 | 1.1 | - | - | - | - | 2.0.07 | 1.0 | - | - |
| 2 | 5.2.1 | 3.0.0 | 1.2 | ||||||||
| 5.2.0 | 6.0.0 | 1.2 | 1.0.0 | 1.0 | |||||||
| 6.2.1 | |||||||||||
| 6.1.0 | 7.x.x | 1.3 | 1.0.1 | 1.1 | |||||||
| - | 8.0.0 | 2.0 | 2.x | 2.1 | 4.0.1 | 2.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0 | |||
| 3 | 5.2.1 | 1.1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 6.2.1 | 1.2 | ||||||||||
| 6.1.0 | 7.x.x | 1.3 | 1.0.1 | 1.1 | 3.0.0 | 1.2 | 1.0.0 | 1.0 | |||
| 7.0.1 | 0.5.0-1.alpha | 0.5 | 4.0.1 | 2.0 | - | - | |||||
| 7.1.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0 | |||||||||
| 7.2.0 | |||||||||||
| 8.0.0 | 8.0.0 | 2.0 | 2.x | 2.1 | 0.9.0-1.alpha | - | - | ||||
| 8.1.0 | 1.0.0 | 1.0 | |||||||||
| 9.0.0 | 5.0.0 | 3.0 | 3.0.0 | 3.0 | |||||||
| 10.0.0 | |||||||||||
| 11.0.0 | - | - | - | - | 2.0.x | 2.0 | - | - | - | - | |
| 12.0.0 | |||||||||||
| 12.1.0 | |||||||||||
| 12.2.0 | |||||||||||
| 12.3.0 |
1 At v11, the SDK has been renamed into nRF5 SDK, and it includes
support for both nRF51 and nRF52.
2 SoftDevice (SD)
3 SoftDevice Specification (SDS)
4 ANT only
SoftDevice. Only compatible with nRF51422 IC.
5 ANT and BLE
combined SoftDevice. Only compatible with nRF51422 IC.
6 Valid for nRF51822 only.
7 Preprogrammed in
factory.