non-bluetooth applications.

[Julian]

I am trying to port an application from MBED LPC1768 to a nRF51822 Evaluation board to develop a multi-function application for the nRF51822. The BLE part (developed on the Eval board) is working, but I first want to develop and test the other sections as stand-alone applications (they use SPI to talk to other peripheral devices) before integrating them into the system. I have working code developed on MBED and ported it to KEIL, but I am not sure how to debug and test it on the Eval board. NRFGo Studio would only load the code after I had erased all memory (including the soft device). Master control Panel detected the emulator, but discovered nothing. Can you help?

[Asbjørn]

I would recommend you to have a look in the softdevice specification for the softdevice you are planning on using. Basically you just have to move your application up in flash and avoid using parts of RAM when you enable the softdevice. Assuming you are planning on using the S110, the S110 softdevice specification can be found here. If you are using a different softdevice, it will have its own specification.

To make this easier, I would recommend you to also program the softdevice into the chip even though you are not enabling it. That way the softdevice will be there in flash and it will forward the run time operation to you application as it will when you are in you final application as well. So just program it and develop code for the chip and once you are ready use the softdevice, you enable it. Also, remember that the softdevice will take control over certain resources and peripherals when you enable it. This is also stated and described in the above mentioned softdevice specification.