Development kit for nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon

[spanara]

I am new to nRF51822 and seek expert's advice!

I am planning to prototype using nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon,

Can some one suggest if I can use nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon Kit to debug and program nRF51822?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

/SPanara

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

The nRF51822 Beacon Kit is a reference design that lets you explore the full range of development possibilities for beacons using Bluetooth Smart technology. I would recommend that you rather get a nRF51-DK or nRF52-DK for doing development and prototyping. This reason for this is that the beacon kit does not come with an onboard debugger/programmer and that the DK has more GPIO and functionality. The same code can be run on the beacon kit as the development kit, which implies that you can develop your firmware on the DK and run it later on the beacon kit/custom board.

If you want to program the beacon kit, you will need an external debugger that you can connect to the SWD interface, either via the TC2030 connector or through the pins on the board.

Best regards,

Jørgen

[spanara]

Thanks Jorgen for the prompt response!

As u suggested, I will get nRF51-DK to use as debugger n programmer along with nRF51822 Smart Beacon kit.

Thanks /SPanara