How to directly program the ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller in the nRF51822 Development Kit?

[Balasubramanian]

I want to program the ARM MCU in the nRF51822 Development Kit for my own purposes and then send the processed data using the BLE module in the kit to another nRF51822 Development Kit which receives the data and displays it.

[kanchun]

Start with Keil and also the SDK periperal examples. I think it is one of the easiest entry level demo for programming the CPU. Keil demo should be good enough for all the peripheral examples and I even tried the BLE too. Highly recommended. I tried the Segger Embedded Studio but I think Keil is more mature.

[awneil]

Agreed. The free (restricted) Keil "lite" edition is perfectly adequate for all the examples.

You can certainly get a useful system built within the "lite" limits.

www.keil.com/.../limits.asp