Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) From Ground Up™

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Modules Required for the Course

Lecture 3: Downloading an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Lecture 4: Installing the Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Lecture 5: Setting Up STM32CubeMX 5

Lecture 6: Downloading the LightBlue Application

Lecture 7: Getting the most out of this course

Chapter 2: Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

Lecture 1: What is Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) ?

Lecture 2: The Bluetooth Low Energy Stack and Stack Splits

Chapter 3: The Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Architecture

Lecture 1: Overview of the Physical Layer (PHY)

Lecture 2: Overview of the Link Layer (LL)

Lecture 3: Understanding the Link Layer Packets

Lecture 4: Overview of the Host Controller Interface (HCI) Layer

Lecture 5: Overview of the Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol(L2CAP) Layer

Lecture 6: Key Features of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5

Chapter 4: The Generic Access Profile (GAP)

Lecture 1: Overview of the Generic Access Profile (GAP)

Lecture 2: Advertising States, Scan Request and Response

Lecture 3: Understanding Advertising Events

Lecture 4: Understanding Advertising and Scanning Parameters

Lecture 5: Connection and Broadcasting

Lecture 6: Understanding Modes and Procedures

Chapter 5: The Attribute Protocol (ATT)

Lecture 1: Overview of the Attribute Protocol

Lecture 2: Analyzing the parts of an Attribute

Chapter 6: The Generic Attribute Profile (GATT)

Lecture 1: Overview of the Generic Attribute Profile (GATT)

Lecture 2: The Mandatory GAP Service Implemented on all GATT Servers

Chapter 7: Developing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Firmware with STM32 BlueNRG-MS

Lecture 1: Overview of the BlueNRG-MS Stack

Lecture 2: Installing the X-CUBE-BLE2 Package

Lecture 3: Coding : Configuring the BLE Hardware

Lecture 4: Coding : Analyzing the BLE Hardware Configuration code

Lecture 5: Coding : Initialization the BLE Device

Lecture 6: Coding : Implementing the mandatory GAP Service

Lecture 7: Coding : Advertising and Testing the BLE Device

Lecture 8: Coding : Creating Custom Services

Lecture 9: Coding : Creating Custom Characteristics

Lecture 10: Coding : Sending Data to the Client

Lecture 11: Coding : Creating UUIDs and Handles for multiple Services and Characteristics

Lecture 12: Coding : Implementing multiple Services and Characteristics

Lecture 13: Coding : Updating Characteristic Values

Lecture 14: Coding : Developing a BLE Chat Firmware-Pt.1 : Creating the Characteristics

Lecture 15: Coding : Developing a BLE Chat Firmware-Pt.2 : Processing Rx and Tx Events

Lecture 16: Coding : Developing a BLE Chat Firmware-Pt.3 : Testing the Firmware

Chapter 8: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Security

Lecture 1: Some Bluetooth Low Energy Security concepts

Chapter 9: [START OF OLD VERSION OF THE COURSE] Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

Lecture 1: What is Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) ?

Lecture 2: Key features of Bluetooth LowEnergy

Lecture 3: Some frequently used terms

Chapter 10: Set Up

Lecture 1: Required Microcontroller

Lecture 2: Notice

Lecture 3: Setting Up STM32CubeMX

Lecture 4: Setting Up STM32CubeMX Bluetooth Low Energy Package

Lecture 5: Download Keil uVision 5

Lecture 6: Installing Keil uVision 5

Lecture 7: Installing more Packs

Lecture 8: Testing the Setup

Lecture 9: Overview of Keil uVision

Chapter 11: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Coding : Advertising your presence (Part I)

Lecture 2: Coding : Advertising your presence (Part II)

Chapter 12: Introduction to the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Architecture

Lecture 1: Notice

Lecture 2: Overview of the Bluetooth Low Energy Stack

Lecture 3: Overview of the Controller block

Lecture 4: Overview of the Host block

Lecture 5: Overview of the Application block

Lecture 6: Overview of the BlueNRG Stack

Lecture 7: Overview of Bluetooth Low Energy Stack Splits

Lecture 8: Examining some Bluetooth Low Energy usage models

Lecture 9: Overview of BLE Direct Test Mode

Chapter 13: Attributes

Lecture 1: Overview of the Bluetooth Low Energy Attribute Protocol

Lecture 2: Understanding Attributes

Lecture 3: More on Attributes

Lecture 4: Attribute Groupings

Lecture 5: Understanding the concept of Services

Lecture 6: Understanding the concept of Characteristics

Lecture 7: Coding : Analyzing a sample Bluetooth Low Energy project

Lecture 8: Some Attribute Protocol operations

Lecture 9: Introduction to the Generic Attribute Profile (GATT)

Lecture 10: Overview of Bluetooth Low Energy security concepts

Lecture 11: Overview of the Generic Access Profile (GAP)

Lecture 12: Understanding the GAP Roles

Lecture 13: Understanding Discoverability and Connectability

Lecture 14: Overview of the GAP Service

Lecture 15: Examining the GAP Service Advertising data

Lecture 16: Coding : Creating a Service

Lecture 17: Coding : Creating Characteristics and Descriptors

Lecture 18: Coding : Sending data from BLE server to BLE client

Lecture 19: Coding : Creating multiple Characteristics

Lecture 20: Bluetooth Low Energy Bonding Modes

Chapter 14: The Link Layer

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Link Layer