Project Prototype using the Nordic Thingy 52 chip

[rafiuli]

Hello, 

My name is Rafiul Islam, and I am a part of a Capstone Engineering team at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada). For our capstone project, we are expected to invent something involving hardware and software. For our invention we made a device the comprises of your Nordic Thingy 52 product. We were hoping to ask if there would any possible way if you could extract the chip off the nordic thingy 52 so we could program it through its development board, to make the chip more custom to our project. Additionally, we have our own development kit, is it possible to the chips program to our custom printed circuit board. Also is it possible to attach an external microphone to the development kit. Also what software tools do we need to program the development board.

Thank you

[awneil]

What is a "Capstone Engineering team" ?

rafiuli said:

We were hoping to ask if there would any possible way if you could extract the chip off the nordic thingy 52 so we could program it

No, that is not practical.

But the Thingy has a debug connector through which you can program it.

www.nordicsemi.com/

https://nordicsemiconductor.github.io/Nordic-Thingy52-FW/documentation/index.html

https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.nordic.infocenter.rds%2Fdita%2Frds%2Fdesigns%2Fthingy%2Fintro%2Ffrontpage.html

rafiuli said:

we have our own development kit

The debugger on the DK can be used to program & debug external targets - such as the Thingy, and custom boards.

rafiuli said:

is it possible to attach an external microphone to the development kit

Yes.

rafiuli said:

what software tools do we need to program the development board.

Any tools capable of programming a Cortex-M4 will do.

The recommended tools are Keil and Segger Embedded Studio (SES) - for which supporting documentation & examples are provided.

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/tutorials/

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/b/blog