New Tools for OSX

RE: New Tools for OSX

RK — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:05:39 GMT

ST-Link v2 not very likely I'm afraid, certainly not in the near future. I think I have one ST-Link V2 board somewhere in the house but it's not Nordic and not something I've tried using in a while, and never on OSX (possibly why I stopped playing with it). The nrfgo code is bit of a mish-mash of native USB code which talks directly to the JLink USB device and some code which runs JLinkExe as a separate process for things I can't do natively, so it's very aligned with Segger/JLink and not really generic enough to easily add STLink support to. If I wanted ST-Link support I'd probably mostly start over. ST-Link seems even more closed and undocumented than Segger, and that's saying something, as far as I can tell the only repository of API information is the open source stlink code which looks pretty dense.

RE: New Tools for OSX

José Ángel Jiménez — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:13:24 GMT

Thanks for your great utility! Is there a way to make it work with ST-Link v2?

RE: New Tools for OSX

Darren Vengroff — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:57:02 GMT

Thanks again for the great tool. I'm having an issue with the latest version and the S130 0.9.0. The softdevice info line for this (Version: 444000988) looks like

s130 v1    0.9.0-1.alpha    0x00020000   0x20002800      0x0600    0x0000  1700853977          No

It is my understanding that the app code base should be 0x0001D000 rather than 0x00020000 for this soft device. I have verified that this is correct using other programming tools, but I would prefer to use your command-line nrfjprog tool.

Is this configuration in a local file somewhere that I can edit? Or is it updated from a server somewhere? Please let me know.

RE: New Tools for OSX

Darren Vengroff — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:41:55 GMT

I just downloaded 1.0.6 from sourceforge and tried it with soft device S110 7.0.0. Looks like it is working perfectly. Thank you.

RE: New Tools for OSX

Darren Vengroff — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:03:37 GMT

OK. Thanks for the quick reply. I found and downloaded the alpha version with the .bat file, so I'll take a look and see what I can find.

RE: New Tools for OSX

RK — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:51:45 GMT

I still haven't looked at this, I haven't moved to SD 7 as I don't currently have a need. I don't expect to get near this anytime soon.

RE: New Tools for OSX

Darren Vengroff — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:17:16 GMT

I just wanted to check in and see if there is a workaround that enables use of the the 7.0.0 softdevice despite the changes to the binary since 6.0.0. Or, barring that, is there a good description of what s110_nrf51822_7.0.0-3.alpha_program.bat did so I could try to duplicate it for OS X? The production version of the 7.0.0 soft device, which is the only version I have, does not seem to include a batch file like this.

RE: New Tools for OSX

RK — Wed, 21 May 2014 11:58:44 GMT

Quick update - I found the latest version of JLinkExe requires the temporary files I was creating to have a '.bin' extension (you can imagine how much fun it was figuring that out) and just failed silently. I also had a request from a user to make the code work back to 10.7 Lion and that's been done too.

Feel free to grab V 1.0.2 at your convenience, especially if you are installing a more recent JLinkExe.

I'll take a look at the softdevice 7 issue when I have some time, currently busy finishing the OSX sniffer.

RE: New Tools for OSX

RK — Wed, 21 May 2014 02:08:56 GMT

Why on earth have Nordic made such a change?

I'm afraid that if programming the chip with a softdevice requires running a windows batch script or doing anything you can't work out from the image, we're fairly buggered.

RE: New Tools for OSX

Yalcin Akdogan — Tue, 20 May 2014 17:32:30 GMT

I looked at the batch file: s110_nrf51822_7.0.0-3.alpha_program.bat

It modifies two memory areas after programming.

SIZE_ADDRESS=0x10001000 with value 0x00015000
FWID_ADDRESS=0x10001010 with value 0xFFFF004E

maybe info in following discussion could also help! https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/index.php/issue-with-programming-s110-v7-0-0-3-alpha-with-nrfgo-studio

RE: New Tools for OSX

RK — Tue, 20 May 2014 14:45:52 GMT

Doesn't look like a softdevice image I've seen before. Anyone from Nordic like to comment on the format of one block at 0x00, one at 0x1000? If I can understand the format, I can probably change the tool to support it.

RE: New Tools for OSX

Yalcin Akdogan — Tue, 20 May 2014 13:43:18 GMT

Hi, It was pure softdevice image.

RE: New Tools for OSX

RK — Tue, 20 May 2014 12:59:24 GMT

Ah - that's annoying - so what the code does is parses the softdevice image to figure out where the code has to start, it reads some of the registers in the image to do that.

if you try another older softdevice image you'll see the line under the image has an entry for CLENR0 which is the start of the real code, that's missing in that screenshot so it hasn't parsed it and hence thinks the code starts at the default, 0x00000000.

The line under that image is very fishy, it has one short piece at 0x00000000 and then a longer piece at 0x00001000. Is that really a pure softdevice image or is it something strange with an added bootloader?

RE: New Tools for OSX

Yalcin Akdogan — Tue, 20 May 2014 12:13:32 GMT

Thanks for your contribution.

I tried to flash the softdevice and an application for 7.0.0.3_alpha version and saw the error:

code must start at 0x00000000 not at 0x00015000

Attached is the dialog box.

Joe.

RE: New Tools for OSX

Eddie — Tue, 20 May 2014 07:19:31 GMT

Hi,

I found another GUI that seems to work nicely on OS X .

Eddie

RE: New Tools for OSX

Carles — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:50:04 GMT

Hi RK,

Just wanted to say: Great project!

I have made this known internally here at Nordic.

Thanks,

Carles

RE: New Tools for OSX

RK — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 01:47:33 GMT

It's an app which does a very small piece of what nRFgo studio does, just programs chips via a connected segger. I'd love to expand it to cover more functionality but that would require in-depth information about the USB endpoints nordic uses and using the j-link DLL directly instead of basically scripting JLinkExe, and that DLL costs $1000.

I don't even know what the OTA DFU service is, so no.

RE: New Tools for OSX

Joe Merten — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:11:58 GMT

…as HEX files and uploads them to a connected device …

Am I right that your application is something like an OSX answer to the windows »nRFgo Studio«? So your tool does not support over the air update using Nordic's DFU service, isn't it?