So is there a way to develop on a mac? Can I use Sparkfun pcb with Nordic?

[FormerMember]

Following a discussion I just saw here Yesterday, people asked about an editor for mac and I could not see there was a clear answer. I was thinking also to go with the nrf51/52 building a custom board. After reading a lot of posts, turns out Keil is not for mac, and I am looking for an editor to use on a mac other then Eclipse.

If you can work with the GCC/ Xcode - how you do that? how would you flash the device ?

I'v seen that, which only state that "it works", but how it works ?

Also, if we use the Sprakfun breakout board that was mentioned here, can we flash it using Nordic firmware and not Arduino ? (with Sparkfun's programmer on the same pins)

Thanks !

[endnode]

Hard to say, we use both architectures: one where nRF5x chip is just auxiliary "peripheral" providing radio connectivity and talks over UART/SPI/I2C with some "main" processor as well as architectures where nRF5x takes role of the main processor. I guess having large code base and stable/tested FWs on ST32 makes it faster to develop just new HW revision with radio aside, however there will be more and more new designs which will already invest into writing proper FW on nRF52, utilizing all its power and saving interesting money on BOM cost by eliminating the other processors (like general multi-IO chips from STM, Atmel, NXP etc.)