Is Keil MDK Lite sufficient for S132 and/or S112 ?

[awneil]

This: http://www2.keil.com/mdk5/editions/lite/

I guess the principal limitation is the 32K code size, but the full list is here: http://www.keil.com/demo/limits.asp

Previous threads report success with nRF51-based projects - so this is an update to see if it's still viable with nRF52832 and S132?

Finding the memory requirements of a SoftDevice is not easy, but I eventually tracked it down in the Release Note.

s132_nrf52_5.1.0 Release Note says 140K Flash, but I guess that much of that is pre-compiled binary - so doesn't count towards the Keil 32K limit ?

[awneil]

awneil said:

Finding the memory requirements of a SoftDevice is not easy

I made a post explaining  that, but it is currently stuck in moderation ...

EDIT

Now released: https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/33503/where-to-find-softdevice-release-notes

[Mark D'Sylva]

If you are not developing commercial products, you may be able to use the Segger Embedded Studio in evaluation mode, it does not have any code limits.   And another bonus is that in SDK 15, many examples have an SES project file.   I tried SES two years ago and it worked well, but now I use Keil MDK-ARM Professional.

[awneil]

Thanks.

So, if you are using Keil MDK, can you confirm whether the "140K Flash" (from the SoftDevice Release Note) is "seen" by Keil ... ?

Or does Keil just see what comes from your own application sources?

[Mark D'Sylva]

Hi awneil,   

I can't easily check that as my version is licenced.   You would get a linker error if the evaluation version is not happy with the size.    Did you get an error?   It will tell you that you exceeded the allowable size.

[Daniel Wang]

Mark D'Sylva said:

If you are not developing commercial products

Wrong. You can use it for commercial products with Nordic chips for FREE . See this link:

www.nordicsemi.com/.../Nordic-Semiconductor-adds-Embedded-Studio-IDE-support-for-nRF51-and-nRF52-SoC-development