Lower the flash footprint on the nrf52810

[magnusbbc]

Hi, we are considering the nrf52810 for an upcoming project

Unfortunately, the small flash size of 192 kB seems to be a limiting factor.
The S112 softdevice and bootloader alone consumes 140 kB, leaving only 52 kB for the application.
However, a bare-bones application (such as the nRF blinky example) seemingly requires 21 kB for just application dependencies
This doesn't take the memory footprint of other commonly used libraries into account (such as nordics cryptographic libraries, which appear to consume an additional 12 kB).

Is their any manageable ways to decrease the flash footprint of these required dependencies?

[awneil]

The whole point of the nRF52810 is that it's for low-cost simple applications!

What optimisation settings are you using?

[magnusbbc]

I am optimizing for size

[Kenneth]

Have in mind that if you disable the cryptographic functionality you don't need (only the following is required for LE secure connection) and disable debugging for the final product you likely will use less:

But during development you can use the nRF52832 with debugging turned ON.