Nrf52832 Programmer

RE: Nrf52832 Programmer

Ole Bauck — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 13:36:46 GMT

As specified on the product page for J-link EDU (www.segger.com/j-link-edu.html):

You may use the J-Link EDU for non profit educational purposes only! Non-profit educational purposes means that you may not use the J-Link EDU and its J-Link software.

- direct or indirect in or for a profit organization or business purposes or other undertaking intended for profit
- direct or indirect in any other commercial environment (e.g. office)
- to develop, debug, program or manufacturer a commercial product (or parts thereof)
- to use it to either earn money or reasonably anticipate the receipt of monetary gain from it.

If you are just going to program nRF chips (nRF51 or nRF52) I would recommend to buy nRF51 or nRF52 DK, this may be the cheapest alternative for J-Link debugger.

You can also buy programmers that support CMSIS-DAP.

Also take a look at this: devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

RE: Nrf52832 Programmer

vipin — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:05:46 GMT

Dear sir,

I have designed a new board with NRF52832 containing some other circuits also so i cant use the SDK circuit for every board as it is our product & i was asking about the other programmer. can you please tell cant i do programming with J-LINK EDU on my board.Can you please provide its Limitation.

If possible please specify some other cheap programmer.

Regards, Vipin

RE: Nrf52832 Programmer

Ole Bauck — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 09:14:08 GMT

You can also see this description.

The onboard (OB) debugger on the nRF5x-DK has some limitation which is:

Must be used to program nRF chipsets
Cannot be used in production programming

See here for more information about J-link OB.

RE: Nrf52832 Programmer

Wojtek — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 15:03:05 GMT

I think J-LINK EDU cannot be used for commercial purpose... If you use it for edu, it should be ok.

Here you have comparison - EDU has got the same capabilities as BASE version.

However, why don't you use nRF52-DK onboard segger? I think it has no such a legal limitations, nRF52-DK costs about 40$ (+ shipment probably) so it is cheaper than J-LINK EDU (about 50 euro i think?) and you get some nrf52832 chips with it...