Program my custom board with nRF52832

[KYUBEEN]

Hi, I am making my own bluetooth custom board with nRF52832. Till now, I made my custom pcb following the infocenter layout and chip antenna like below.

Now I want to debug a bluetooth adc example on this board and hope it can read analog voltage input and send it to my iphone via bluetooth. Of course the code is worked with my nRF52DK. I saw I can debug this custom pcb with nRF52DK and four pins, but there is no exact manual or guide in this nordic semiconductor.

This is my first time with bluetooth, pcb, embedded things, so hope you give me some specific guide for debugging my own pcb.

I am using Keil, and the adc example is from SDK 12.  

[awneil]

The debugger on the nRF52DK can be used to debug an external target.

Details are in the DK User Guide ...

[KYUBEEN]

I've checked it but it has not enough detail. It says just use debug out pin.

[Ali Rumane]

You can use UART or JLINK debugger,

With UART, confgure pins as Rx and Tx and send data over it.

Connect SWDIO and SWDCLK pins and with JLNK RTT Viewer view logs.

Remember to modify NRF Logs accordingly.

[awneil]

KYUBEEN said:

it has not enough detail

So what detail do you feel is missing?

The debug connection is the same as for any other ARM Cortex-M4 - there's nothing special here.

Look at the DK schematic to see how the on-board JLink connects to the on-board nRF52832.

[awneil]

Ali Rumane said:

You can use UART or JLINK debugger

You can use any debugger which supports Cortex-M4 and SWD.

Segger Embedded Studio (SES) only supports JLink, but other IDEs may support other debug probes; eg, Keil uVision can use the Keil uLink.

RTT is a segger-specific thing.

Some people have reported success using ST-Link - but that's not supported, so you'd be on your own with that.