olleheugene / nRF-DTM

Standalone Bluetooth RF test tool

nRF DTM

The nRF DTM is a UI-based standalone RF test tool designed for ease of controlling RF Test features of the nRF5 series of Nordic semiconductor.

Supporting features are

• UI based RF test tool
• Bluetooth 5 features (2Mbps/Coded S8/Coded S2/1Mbps)
• Bluetooth 5.1 DF features (AoA/AoD)
  • The nRF DTM tool supports both AoA/AoD but the DTM Firmware in nRF5 SDK only supports AoA Tx
  • refer to the AoA TX test result
• Bluetooth 5.2's Tx power control feature
• Listing the supported features
• Selectable UART Baudrates
• Sequential 3 channels testing (High/Mid/Low)
• Nordic Vendor-specific commands (Tx Power / Constant Carrier )
• PER measurement
• Average RSSI measurement (Firmware modification required)
• Configurable log level to check the test sequence and details
• Selectable physical and link-layer channel map
  • The Bluetooth's Link layer channel list
  • The Bluetooth's Physical layer channel list
• The firmware built on Windows7 32bit,64bit/macOS 13.3.1/Ubuntu 22.04

Getting Started

To learn more about nRF DTM, please visit wiki page

How to modify the firmware source code to support the average RSSI measurement

• Code Changes

Download the latest version

• For Windows 32bit
• For Windows 64bit
• For Ubuntu 22.04
• For macOS

Attention

This tool is not an official Nordic tool that planned, developed, and production level verification by the Nordic semiconductor. Personal project for providing better usage.

All bug reports, feedbacks are welcome.