Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

brianreinhold — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:43:15 GMT

Not anymore!

There are many confusing items in the Keil to Segger import guide here

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/nordic/nordic-blog/b/blog/posts/segger-embedded-studio-a-cross-platform-ide

It's out of date.

I am porting over an nRF51 project - why does the tutorial specify nrf52 startup and c files? I assume this should be nrf51 if I want to run on an nrf51 DK. I want to do that because my Keil project WORKS on the nRF51 DK using Keil. Ports direct to Segger and nrf52840 DK are not working and a week has gone by with little progress.

So porting nrf51 to Segger is one baby step (I hope). So I go with the nRF51 options instead.

Now more trouble. The IDE has changed from what shown. Internal tool chain has no compiler associated with it like in the tutorial. I assume it is still the correct choice.

The build configurations are also different. There are copies of the public projects in the private.

The include file additional looks different ... assuming also a UI change only.

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

brianreinhold — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:42:55 GMT

Tutorial linked is out of date. The include directories in Segger are all empty except the one I had to copy in by hand (no browse option) and link to flash_placement.xml is empty. Of course the build failed everywhere.

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

Vidar Berg — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 07:45:10 GMT

The LED should blink to indicate advertising. Please try to do a chip-erase (nrfjprog -e) before programming the example code to ensure that you only have the Softdevice and app programmed as SES will only erase Flash sections that overlap with the new images (app+softdevice). I suspect that you may have data in the app data region (where bonding information gets stored), which can cause peer manager initialization to fail.

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

rahul1 — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 20:35:03 GMT

The LED does not blink.

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

rahul1 — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:37:29 GMT

Hello, thank you for all your help so far. I was able to 'build and run' the project using SES. The issue I am having now is that the device does not seem to be advertising. I am using the nRF Connect app for ios to discover the device. I am only interested in testing the ADC peripheral for Battery Level Service.

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

Vidar Berg — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:15:46 GMT

I'm not sure why you get the errors, I have tested it on two different PCs (SES v.3.50 and 4.10). To try the example you can download the zip and extract the content of it to the existing ble_app_proximity folder.

Like this:

\nRF5_SDK_11.0.0_89a8197\examples\ble_peripheral\ble_app_proximity\pca10028\s130\ses\ble_app_proximity_s130_pca10028.emProject"

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

rahul1 — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:36:54 GMT

The previous issue has been resolved. Now I am receiving an UNPLACED SECTIONS error.

"Output/nrf51422_xxac_s130?Exe/ble_app_proximity_s130_pca10028.elf section '.text.SystemInit' will not fit in region 'UNPLACED_SECTIONS'"

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

rahul1 — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:16:20 GMT

Hello, thank you for your response. I have built the file you sent me and I am getting an error that says:

"ble_advertizing.h no such file or directory"

I am unable to read any file under "Dependencies"

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

Vidar Berg — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:58:30 GMT

Try this:

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../2727.ble_5F00_app_5F00_proximity.zip

I used the import function, but I had to make some additional changes that are not mentioned in the documentation to make it work. I will report this internally.

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

rahul1 — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 23:45:37 GMT

Yes I have done this. The error I am getting when run the program is "'init' will not fit in region "UNPLACED_SECTIONS"". I am still not receiving and option to "Import Section Placement"

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

Ruth Fuchss — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 07:46:50 GMT

Have you changed the Linker option to GNU (step 7b)?

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

rahul1 — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:21:59 GMT

Hello thank you for your response. I am having an issue following the example you've given. On the final step it requires me to right click the project name and select "Import Section Placement". When I right click the project name I do not receive "Import Section Placement" as an option. I am using SES 4.12

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

Ruth Fuchss — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:36:33 GMT

See the Getting Started Guide for SEGGER Embedded Studio here.
Importing Keil projects should have the information you need.

RE: Importing Keil uVision project to Segger

Vidar Berg — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:57:29 GMT

Hi,

You may use the example that I uploaded here and use it as a starting point for your project. Alternatively, follow the steps to import an existing Keil project as outlined in this tutorial (link). Warning, the tutorial might not be up to date with more recent SES versions.