NRF SDK v15 not board compatible with NRF52832 micro devkit

[shariq]

I have NRF52832 micro Devkit. As it supports hex file daplink drag and drop flash procedure, I need to create hex files from the source code in NRF5 SDK v15. 

But as I found out, boards.h file has different pin definitions. So I needed to change it according to my board pins(Changed pin definitions in pca10040.h to my board pins for led and uart).. After this I can build given example and create hex file(i have done this using Segger EMbedded studio)

The problem is with examples containing BLE stack. It just doesn't work when I flash the hex file in daplink folder. My observation was when I create hex file from this example(for ex: ble_app_uart), the size of hex file generated is 80kb whereas in the NRF SDK v15 hex file size is about 480kb. Dont seem to understand where the problem lies.

It would be fine if anyone can explain it using some other IDE as well.

[Vidar Berg]

Hi,

The BLE stack (softdevice) is not included in the .hex file generated by SES. You can use the mergetool bundled with nRF5 Command Line Tools to merge the application hex file with the softdevice (found in \components\softdevice\s132\hex)

[shariq]

Thanks Berg. That was very helpful