NRF Project development environment

RE: NRF Project development environment

Patrick — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 02:11:52 GMT

FYI, Sysprogs has a BSP tool on their github that is able to create compatible BSPs based on what you're able to download from Nordic. They do lag behind a bit but the tool does work with SDK 15.2. It isn't as seamless an experience as using SES but like you, I prefer Visual Studio.

RE: NRF Project development environment

Jake — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:20:11 GMT

Thanks, good to know about the program size limitations on Keil, I'll be sticking with SES then

RE: NRF Project development environment

awneil — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:00:20 GMT

I would second Einar Thorsrud's recommendation: not only does SES have "full support for the nRF devices", but it is the one that Nordic themselves fully support.

It gives you all the things you ask for.

Although it isn't Eclipse-based, it is very similar to Eclipse.

Possibly the biggest limitation is that it only works with J-Link - not any other 3rd-party debug probes. But that shouldn't be a problem for nRF development - because all nRF DK boards come with a J-Link on board.

Keil is a commercial product; the free version is limited to 32K code space. Although that doesn't include the SoftDevice, you don't get very far on that with Nordic's examples - and you certainly won't be able to do Mesh!

RE: NRF Project development environment

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:44:57 GMT

Hi,

I recommend you use Segger Embedded Studio (SES). It is both feature rich and user friendly and has full support for the nRF devices. Moreover, it can be used free of charge for all products where the target device is a Nordic Semiconductor chip, and our SDKs comes with SES-project files for all examples.