Hi,
As I understand I can able to flash nrf52832 using Segger Jlink or using ST Link Debug Interface. That means we use JTAG or SWD interface for flashing the application on nRF52832.
Can I use USB or UART interface for flashing the application on nRF52832 without using JTAG or SWD Interface?
Thanks in Advance!!
Regards,
Deepa
No, you cannot program the device using the conventional simple programming tools if you do not want to go through the DAP/CTRL-AP route.
You then need a special bootloader in your device to listen to which ever transport layer you want to get the firmware from. DFU in SDK has support for two transport layers.
Hi Susheel,
Thank you for the inputs.
Can nrf52832 device comes with preflashed bootloader ?
What do you mean by " you cannot program the device using the conventional simple programming tools if you do not want to go through the DAP/CTRL-AP route"?
I'm looking for DFU Application Firmware Flash using UART Interface without using JTAG or SWD Interface?
Can you please guide me how can I do DFU Application Firmware Flash using UART Interface without using JTAG or SWD Interface
Thanks & Regards,
Deepa
Deepa Gopinath said:I'm looking for DFU Application Firmware Flash using UART Interface without using JTAG or SWD Interface?
It wasn't very clear from your question that you were looking for DFU application. It looks to me that you want exact setup mentioned in this example.
Hi Susheel,
Thanks for your Inputs.
I want to flash an application on nrf52832 device without using JTAG or SWD interface (without using on board Jlink Interface).
In STM32, they provide UART interface to flash an application to the internal flash using DFU method. In DFU method, pre loaded bootloader image on STM32 chip will help us to flash the application image using DfuseDemo tool.
As stated above, do we have similar or other option to flash an image in nrf52832 device?
Hope the question is clear to you now!!
Thanks & Regards,
Deepa
Hi Deepa,
Yes, I understand it. We do not have any tool that will simplify this process like DfuseDemo_tool. We still have a bootloader that can take the firmware through UART, but you need to go through all the procedure of packing your binary into a DFU zip package manually.
After you build the package you can just send the firmware to the device using one command like below
nrfutil dfu serial -pkg package.zip -p COM_PORT for UART transport
Hi Deepa,
Yes, I understand it. We do not have any tool that will simplify this process like DfuseDemo_tool. We still have a bootloader that can take the firmware through UART, but you need to go through all the procedure of packing your binary into a DFU zip package manually.
After you build the package you can just send the firmware to the device using one command like below
nrfutil dfu serial -pkg package.zip -p COM_PORT for UART transport
Hi Susheel,
nrfutil dfu serial -pkg package.zip -p COM_PORT for UART transport
Using this command, Can I flash to nRf52832 device without JTAG /SWD Interface?
Can you please share the procedure of packing binary Image into a DFU zip package manually?
Thanks & Regards,
Deepa
Deepa Gopinath said:nrfutil dfu serial -pkg package.zip -p COM_PORT for UART transport
Yes, It will do it through the serial, Please check the documentation here for the procedure to make the package.zip.
Hi Susheel,
Thanks for the info!! I will check this and get back to you If I face any issues.
Is it possible to perform a DFU using UART with the latest Nordic SDK(nRF5_SDK_15.1.0_a8c0c4d ) ?
Regards,
Deepa
Deepa,
The latest one is SDK15.2 and yes you can do a DFU using serial(UART)
Please check this thread for more info.
Hi Susheel,
I want to flash blink example application using dfu method. As stated in the link, I have installed the dependent packages.
To generate the package - I have executed the below command -
nrfutil pkg generate --application blinky_pca10056.hex blinky_dfu_package.zip
But I got the below errors -
Missing option "--hw-version"
Missing option "--sd-req"
Missing option "--application-version"
Missing option "--key-file"
1. Do we need to give all these options for generating dfu package? Is it mandatory?
2. Before flashing application Image using UART DFU(blink example), do i need to flash bootloader, mbr , other images etc.,
3. The link shared is not clear enough. Can you please share the step by step to flash the new application using dfu ?
4. Do we have example to build non secure bootloader?
5. While genrating the key, I used the below command which results in below error -
D:\Work\Projects\Sw_work_packages\Nordic_SDK\test\dfu_test>nrfutil keys generate private.pem
File found at private.pem. Do you want to overwrite the file? [y/N]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\deepa.gopinath\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\Scripts\nrfutil-script.py", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('nrfutil==4.0.0', 'console_scripts', 'nrfutil')()
File "c:\users\deepa.gopinath\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 764, in __call__
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "c:\users\deepa.gopinath\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 717, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "c:\users\deepa.gopinath\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1137, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "c:\users\deepa.gopinath\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1137, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "c:\users\deepa.gopinath\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 956, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "c:\users\deepa.gopinath\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 555, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "c:\users\deepa.gopinath\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\nordicsemi\__main__.py", line 364, in generate
if not query_func("File found at %s. Do you want to overwrite the file?" % key_file):
File "c:\users\deepa.gopinath\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\nordicsemi\dfu\util.py", line 69, in query_func
choice = raw_input().lower()
NameError: name 'raw_input' is not defined
Can you please help to resolve the issue?
Thanks in Advance!!
Regards,
Deepa
