Hi, I'm a mechanical engineer, an industrial engineer and have a master's degree in control of the dynamics systems. I never get the change to work with ARM architecture before. I worked a lot with PIC and Arduino based projects. I want to step up to ARM. I have a project that based on Arduino. I want to implement the Arduino project to the nrf51822. It is very very simple application actually. There is a buzzer on one of the GPIO and a flashing RGB led. Bluetooth connection requires a password from the user and if it connects, the controller transmits 3 pieces of information automatically and once until another information request from the user. 3 pieces of information are signal power based approximate distance, battery voltage and a specific number that a predefined function returns. All transmitting and receiving jobs will be based on Bluetooth. The nrf51822 custom board will be the server and a phone will be the client.
As I said before, I'm new to ARM. I have an ST Link V2 debugger. And I have nrf51822 bare chip from RS Electronics. I will use the board schematics from the datasheet by reducing it to my needs. Here is my plan, if something seems not right to you.
- Build the custom board with accessible SWD SWDCLK VTARG and GND pins.
- Upload the code to the nrf51822 using ST Link V2 through nRFGO software.
- Check the result.
I have couple questions about how to do this.
- What is a softdevice and its role ?
- Is there an example and how to use tutorial about my application? For example sending a character with the custom designed nrf51822 project would be adequate for my needs. But all the tutorials I have read presumes reader has knowledge about background information.
- Is there a basic example how to program a custom nrf51822 board from scratch.
- What do you suggest for my application?
