Keil 5.20, nRF52 and ESB

[Steve H]

I've successfully compiled, flashed, and run the SDK11 ESB examples on nRF52 DKs using GCC, and am trying unsuccessfully to get them to work on the Keil 5.20 IDE.

I've seen comments that said ESB on the nRF52 wasn't compatible with the Keil IDE - is that correct, and if so, will it ever be supported?

[Håkon Alseth]

Hi,

The older esb.lib files are only compatible with the nRF51x22. In SDK v11, an open source implementation of nrf_esb (based on the microesb project on our github) was added. This has support for both nRF51x22 and nRF52832, and with all compilers that we support (gcc/iar/keil).

Do you get any error message while compiling or debugging on Keil?

Best regards, Håkon

[Steve H]

Hi Håkon,

Thanks for the advice. I'm an experienced developer but I am new to development for Nordic devices and the Keil compiler. This is a new project so I'm happy to go with whatever is the recommended route for developing ESB communications on Keil.

I was hoping that there would be a working example, but there doesn't seem to be one in the DevicePack example, so I was trying the SDK example instead. Is there a working example for developing ESB under Keil?

Thanks again,

Steve.