MDK 5 can not found nRF device.......

RE: MDK 5 can not found nRF device.......

Fabian — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 22:00:10 GMT

Thanks Ole. In my case I have Keil MDK-Lite 5.14.0.0 and I already installed the nRFgo SDK (and reinstalled it a couple of times) but in Options for target '...' / Device (as shown above), I cannot find Nordic Semiconductor listed! Therefore I cannot do a manual selection as you suggested. Everything else seems to be in place: the pack in Keil_v5 / ARM / Pack and so on. I am trying to run C:\Nordic Semiconductor\nRF51 SDK_v5.2.0.39364\Nordic\nrf51422\Board\nrf6310\blinky_example\arm. The only thing that I find different from a previous working configuration is that 'ARM Cortex-M Profile Device Support Template' pack is missing. But well, I have the same problem described by bynce. I appreciate any advice on this.

RE: MDK 5 can not found nRF device.......

Ron Wedge — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:56:25 GMT

Your issue looks similar to this forum post:

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

So re-running the nRF SDK installer will load the Keil packs onto your machine. These packs include all the files and examples you will need.

Please note the pack wants to install to c:/Keil

Recent versions of the Keil tools have their default installation directory as c:/Keil_v5

If you install the packs, you will have these nRF51 device database entries in Keil.

RE: MDK 5 can not found nRF device.......

Jos Bijma — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:24:47 GMT

Hi,

Today I did an update of the SDK from 5.0 to 5.1. After the installation the same problem occurred as described by bynce. I looked in the Keil folder for the Nodic Software Pack but it was not available. (C:\Keil\ARM\Pack)

I did what Ole Morten suggested, a reinstall of the SDK. Three options are available in the installation of the SDK, change, repair and remove. I used the option change and double checked if the "nRF Device Family Pack" was selected. After the installation my problem was solved! In C:\Keil\ARM\Pack the software pack of Nordic Semiconductor was added.

Hope this helps solving the problem.

RE: MDK 5 can not found nRF device.......

bynce — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:44:26 GMT

Thank you!!!mdkcm500u1.exe Not solve the problem .

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bynce — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:42:57 GMT

my os:windows 8.1 64bit . I can not install nrf51_sdk_v4_3_0_27417.msi (system not support). nrf51_sdk_v5_1_0_36092 is only floder(not use install).

sorry .English is very bad.hope your understand.

RE: MDK 5 can not found nRF device.......

Ole Morten — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:48:08 GMT

I've expanded my answer above a little, so please take a look. Also, you should consider following Jos's suggestion below as well.

RE: MDK 5 can not found nRF device.......

Ole Morten — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:47:34 GMT

I've expaned my answer above a little, with information that might be helpful on how to avoid this error message appearing in the future for a give project, which I hope should be helpful.

Downgrading to µVision 4 should not be necessary.

RE: MDK 5 can not found nRF device.......

Jos Bijma — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:27:08 GMT

Try to install Legacy Support for Cortex-M devices available on the Keil site. (www2.keil.com/.../legacy) Perhaps this will help to solve the described problem

RE: MDK 5 can not found nRF device.......

Jay Tyzzer — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 04:06:52 GMT

Hi Ole Morten,

I have the same issue and i dont wish to revert back to version 4 of the software. I uninstalled and re-installed Keil and our sdk . The Keil still does not see the Nordic library.

Can you investigate this further?

Thanks,

Jay

RE: MDK 5 can not found nRF device.......

bynce — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 03:28:05 GMT

Thank you ! MDK4 no problem .but MDK5.0 the way they release the device lib. They are now in "Packs". now mdk5.0 not support nodic "Packs".

RE: MDK 5 can not found nRF device.......

Ole Morten — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:21:30 GMT

Have you installed the nRF51 SDK? Can you please try to reinstall and/or repair the installation?

If the SDK has been installed correctly, you should also be able to work around this problem by opening the target options, going on the Device tab, and select the nRF51822_xxAA chip manually, making sure the Generic CPU Data Base is selected.

Edit: I have occasionally seen this error when opening old projects, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. I suspect that the problem stems from the fact that the old device database was removed as part of the upgrade to µVision 5, and the project's reference to it is hence not valid any more. However, if you open the project, and then manually select the nRF51822_xxAA in the Generic CPU database (see attached screenshot), you should not see this error when reopening the project later. This should therefore be a usable workaround.