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Question about the NRF51822 Evaluation Kit

Hi, I need to design a board that connects various sensor to a smartphone using the Bluetooth 4.0. I'm interested in the NRF51822 chip but i have some doubt about what is the best way to start experiment with the chip. I'm a student so i cannot afford the expensive nrfgo board. If i buy the Evaluation Kit can i use the onboard Segger programmer to program external chip ?because in the future i need to design a standalone board. If i buy the Development Kit without the Nrfgo board, from what i understand, i get an external programmer(great for future board), a usb dongle and two boards with the NRF51822. Can i use those board without the nrfgo board? There are no picture of the back side of this boards but i think that there is an smd connector with all the I/O pin breakout, so in theory i can power this board externally and use the I/O. Is the pin out of the connector available? Thanks for the help and sorry for the bad english. Augusto

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  • Hi Augusto,

    unfortunately the EVK doesn't have a convenient breakout from the built-in programmer, so it is not convenient for programming external chips. The modules from the DK do have an SMD connector on the bottom but it is not a standard .1" pitch so it is also not very convenient to connect to. The pinout is available in the hardware design files (available for download once you have the product key from the DK).

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  • Hi Augusto,

    unfortunately the EVK doesn't have a convenient breakout from the built-in programmer, so it is not convenient for programming external chips. The modules from the DK do have an SMD connector on the bottom but it is not a standard .1" pitch so it is also not very convenient to connect to. The pinout is available in the hardware design files (available for download once you have the product key from the DK).

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